Southern US accent sexy? No. BBC British? Whoa yeah!
Of the English as a second language accents, I loooove a soft Italian accent. Makes me gooey inside.
First let me say that I grew-up in California and now live in Texas.
I always found a southern, especially a Texas accent on a woman (there is a difference, btw) to often be sexy.
On a man I think a Texas drawl is more pleasing than a Southern accent. Which usually connotes somebody from one of the Southeastern states.
For example, if I could have a voice and accent like anybody, I would choose Matt McCoughnahey’s. (sp?) It’s just the perfect level of drawl. Not too much. Every woman I’ve ever heard mention it think’s it’s super sexy.
After several years here, a few of my Cali friends said that I had developed a slight drawl. This, when I visited back there last year. My wife–a Yankee–also says I have a Texas drawl. I myself can’t hear it.
They maybe would be, but Hollywood killed it. Nothing is worse, or unsexier, than an actress “way over-Southerning”, as Cro called it on MST3K.
There are actresses from the south who have had it beaten out of them at acting school, only to be replaced in films by Minnesota-born actresses “over-Southerning”. Like Jessica Lang in “Streetcar”, a virtual parody on bad theater.
Another potential factor is that many, if not most, Southern accents on TV and in movies aren’t real. In the Seinfeld episode where Jerry is captivated by the sexy Southern accent of George’s ex-girlfriend, the actress is from Brooklyn.
Depending on the skill (and restraint) of the performer, it can come across as dead-on or cartoonish. Christina Ricci evidently had Foghorn Leghorn as a vocal coach for her role of Zelda Fitzgerald recently. I don’t think she ever actually said “ah do de-CLAY-uh!” but it would’ve fit right in.
Southern France, maybe.
Some woman told me I had a pretty ‘French accent’ and I was like WTF !
I have a speech defect , and some guys think it’s sexy . :smack:
I don’t think a Southern is sexy, I dated a guy from the south , he was sexy to me not his accent . I agree you with I think Italian & French are sexy and I think
Hispanic accent is sexy.
A good friend of mine is from Birmingham, Alabama. I could listen to her read grocery lists, her accent is so wonderful. I don’t personally know any Louisiana Cajuns, but I sure like the accents I hear on TV and in film.
Mrs. Shark is a life-long Manhattanite and I really like her accent. However, I don’t find the “outer burroughs” accents very sexy. Her brother, also a Manhattanite, sounds as she does; his wife, on the other hand, is straight outta Queens and kind of sounds like Fran Drescher. It’s amazing how much accent difference can be found within a 15-mile radius.
Another hate: “Utah speak.” It’s not the “alternative grammar,” it’s the tone and accent that can make a speaker seem really dumb – getting rid of my Utah accent was a priority when I left home.
It’s a fine line between sounding sexy and sounding like you have brain damage. A few people can pull off the sexy, but the vast majority cannot.
Eww, no.
Hell no.
I spent many years in the south as a kid, and my relatives are mostly southerners.
NO.
The 2013 film In A World was written by, directed and starring Lake Bell as an aspiring voiceover artist who winds up coaching other women on how to speak. One particularly enjoyable bit was a lawyer who had been looking for a job for ten months, who hadn’t been successful because she sounded like a “sexy baby”
Kathleen Turner in Body Heat and Elizabeth Peña in The Incredibles pulled it off.
All accents are sexy.
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Yes. But not all.
All accents are sexy.
ETA: But seriously. Speak to me in any accent, and I melt.
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Such as?
The Mrs. is of the south, but not truly from the south. Her parents were both born and raised in Alabama, but she grew up as an army brat, and ended up not spending a lot of time south of the Mason Dixon line as a result.
That also resulted in her speaking a relatively un-accented typical ‘american’ english speech pattern in her day to day life.
But get her back with her family, or ask her to speak ‘southern’ and she can drop into a deep, deep Alabamian accent with ease.
For some reason, hearing her speak with this accent will immediately kill any romantic inclinations I might have. And she knows this. And thus avoids doing so, unless such an outcome fits her plans.
I suspect this effect on me is because she vividly reminds me of her mother, grandmother, AND great grandmother when I hear her speak like that. Now these 3 ladies were all wonderful people, but NOT in that sense.
So I guess I’m a victim of conditioning when it comes to my reaction to the southern accent.
Strom Thurmond.
Other way around. Pop is not a soda. It’s one of the ingredients of a soda, but it’s not even the main ingredient. That would be ice cream. A soda also requires whipped cream and syrup, and optionally a cherry. Calling a glass of pop a soda is like calling a bowl of chocolate syrup a banana split.