Girls talking in baby voices.

[Frylock]

@Sleel

I find affected high voices to be annoying. It’s quite common here, as is baby talk. Hamasaki Ayumi, for example, has the vocal mannerisms of a five year old. Blech!

Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was this where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals.

A girl with a naturally high voice who tries to go for a more throaty, husky voice, on the other hand <growl>

I’ve told my wife before that it turns me on when she gets a sore throat. For some reason she doesn’t appreciate this.

-FrL-

I want to drag home and ravish animal-style.

Umm… you want to put chili and thousand island dressing on her?

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

@Frylock

Umm… you want to put chili and thousand island dressing on her?

Explain please.

[Frylock]

@Swallowed My Cellphone

Explain please.

Heh, I have to apologize for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I forgot the reference is obscure. For another thing, I didn’t even get it right. :smack:

(Lower right hand corner if you don’t see it.)

-FrL-

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

@Frylock

Heh, I have to apologize for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I forgot the reference is obscure. For another thing, I didn’t even get it right. :smack:

Oooooh. Yeah, they don’t have that restaurant around these parts.

[Mister_Rik]

@Frylock

Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was this where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals.

I can verify what Sleel said. Ayumi’s voice is … unique. Except I wouldn’t so much call it “little girlish” as “bizarre”. She really sounds like she’s talking completely through her nose. There used to be a clip on YouTube where the singing group Mini Moni was on Ayumi’s TV show, and you could really hear a lot of her voice there. There was also a clip of Mari Yaguchi, from Morning Musume doing an uncannily accurate impression of Ayumi, but I can’t find that one, either.

For more Japanese girly voice fun, you can’t beat my favorite, aiko. Of course, aiko is 5 feet tall and built like the proverbial 12-year-old boy, so she has an excuse. And she writes great songs

[Sleel]

@Frylock

Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was this where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals.

We’ve been discussing two separate issues as if they were the same thing. 1) Voice quality. 2) Baby-talk (i.e. Pwecious Pwincess).

Hamasaki Ayumi doesn’t have a particularly high voice. She actually uses a lower register than most girly girls in Japan, though she tends to talk through her nose even more than most Tokyo-area women. I was actually talking about her way of speaking: mannerisms, choice of words, speech patterns. When she says something like あゆは、さ、ちょう嬉しいわね！It makes her sound like she’s about five and/or extremely ditzy. She’s actually not dumb, but she sure as hell sounds like she is.