"Country" voice overs are so hot right now.

Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Has anyone else noticed this lately? Redneck accented voice overs seem to be everywhere. Just a couple years ago, even shows like Hannity had their tax arrear commercials delivered by standard American accents, even precise legalistic ones.. Now they are being delivered using ridiculously overdone hick accents. And it's not just Hannity, the whole spectrum of media seems to be infected y'all.

So I asked a friend of mine who is a New York sound engineer about it. First I asked her if she had noticed it and she said "absolutely". Then I asked if they are really shipping in voice talent from Arkansas. "Not hardly", she said. It seems that most of the voice professionals have seen the trend and rapidly developed redneck voices after losing out on job after job to those that saw the trend quicker.

Just now there was a commercial during the Olympic opening ceremony that I normally would have expected to be some type of parody, but it wasn't.


God help us. It's the 1970s again. Our national IQ may never recover.

As a footnote, I love puppies and trucks and guns and my wife just "run off" with some guy named Jimbo.
 
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Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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I guess the commercial is sort of is a parody in a way. Not having a subscription to People magazine, I did not recognize the people involved as non-drawlers. But that kind of illustrates my point even better.
 
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Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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I hope when this trend is over we don't go back to break dancing.


The 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Whoops, my error. That seems to just have been a Lionel Ritchie concert. Below is the opening ceremony performance of the 1984 Olympics starring Lionel Ritchie. It is far, far worse.

 
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racerboy71

racerboy71

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Unclebaldrick said:
Roadhouse, Sam Elliott...

I cannot resist.

This is the largest piece of the film I have ever seen. I knew the risks.


Them Norwegians are going to be lining up to get here.
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have you seen that masterpiece of theatre called the ranch with sam elliot and what's his name, dude, where's my car, the guy who married bruce willis' ex wife, what's her name, damn, i'm not very good at this game..
 
abandonconflict

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racerboy71 said:
have you seen that masterpiece of theatre called the ranch with sam elliot and what's his name, dude, where's my car, the guy who married bruce willis' ex wife, what's her name, damn, i'm not very good at this game..
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Everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows Kevin Bacon.
 
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