July 16, 2004

Observations on France:

This is just wrong...

    By Jack Grant

...in the "it's not supposed to be like this" sort of way.

I'm watching one of the French music television channels, and they have a man and a woman singing together (apparently they're part of a rock group). The woman is singing in a throaty voice that while not odd, is rather deep for a female singing voice, while the man is singing in a grating falsetto. So, the woman has a much, much deeper and more masculine sounding voice than the man.

This is just wrong...

And it's not the first time I've run across that here. Men's voices here seem to be higher pitched (not singing in falsetto, but the regular speaking voice) than the women's voices. I love for a woman's voice to be in the lower registers (Kathleen Turner was big when I was hitting my hormone peak), but for the men to have higher pitched voices than the women? No...

This is just wrong...

Posted by Jack Grant at 20:49 on 16 July 2004
Comments

Some people speak in an obviously fake higher pitched voice when they are nervous or trying to sound "professional." I want to shake them and DEMAND that they use their God-given voice, but some have been speaking that way for so long, I think they've forgotten it!(I could say the same for personalities...)

Posted by: Key at July 16, 2004 09:56 PM

Perhaps the men in France were influenced by Michael Jackson?

Posted by: Beth at July 17, 2004 01:29 AM



























































































































































































































































































































































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