Posted on 03/30/2010 9:58:08 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Okay, I know I'm going to get reprimanded out here by many of you, but does anyone else notice that Sarah Palin's voice is just way too pitchy and high? I enjoy her speeches and such, but sometimes she screeches so high that it drowns out her message, and, in my opinion, she should tone down her voice/vocal levels just a bit.
When she does sit-down interviews, she's much better, although the high-pitch comes and goes there too. I was prepping dinner last night with FNC on, and they showed her at the McCain event. Her voice was so loud and unleveled that I almost cut my pinky finger with my Ginsu knife while cutting a tomato... I got a chill going up my shoulders. It's strange...
Can a voice coach help her through this?
Very, very intersting!!
The tone of her voice is definitely something the 'Rats and their media allies will use against her. She needs a voice coach to help her tone down that occasional screech: it will show her to be a serious player and not some cartoonish bumpkin that the Left always portrays.
9 out of 10 people posting here disagree with you....
So what? Since when is your opinion the only one of importance?
Truth is you can have the dulcet oratorial tones of Nancy Graham and Barry Obama and the like. The honey coated voice is of no interest to me. You want to be charmed like a snake is charmed by the flute player. Go ahead be charmed. I want authenticity and principled messages
she knows what she sounds like and will work to improve
the event in searchlight had a poor pa system and she had to scream
as long as she is saying the right stuff who cares
I really like Sarah’s natural voice (and I find her accent to be cute). There are not many people, male or female, who sound good yelling at rallies. Women have it especially tougher.
But she sounds great when she gives a speech. Not too shrill at all. Her RNC speech was pitch perfect. Loved it.
My husband says this is the only thing wrong with her & my musician son says the sound systems could be adjusted to help a bit. When we saw her in Cape we didn’t notice it at all! At any rate, I agree it’s probably a problem for many women but the message is crystal clear.
True—but I’d take her squeak over Mitt’s pipes anytime.
She’s a politician, not an American Idol contestant, dawg.
Yes, I do and have been saying so for a long time. It's nothing against her or her views of which I agree totally, but I just cannot get beyond her voice. Sometimes on a one to one, it's fine, but whenever she's giving a speech it's like fingernails across a chalk board.
Granted women, for the most part, have a higher, thinner speaking voice, but hers is particularly annoying IMO. I'm just surprised she hasn't used a voice coach to deepen and soften the pitch.
She needs a voice coach, a boob job, hair extensions, butt lift,tummy tuck, spray on tan and a guest episode on “What Not to Wear” and then maybe she’ll look just like Barbie.
Actually, you are right.
She and other politicians not of gifted voice need speech coaches to tell them how to make use of the audio tools at their disposal.
With amplifiers and other aids you don’t have to scream in a breaking voice. Palin’s measured speech at the Republican Convention was an example of how to do it.
Screaming at an outdoor rally like at Searchlight is the bad example of doing it wrong.
PS - Her message also could have been better. Just throwing out barbs, not a coherent development and explanation of ideas and positions and rebuttals.
Interesting. I didn’t know this. Bookmarked for later.
It may make her unique and distinct, but not very presidential sounding IMO.
Over-coaching is the worst thing that can happen to Sarah Palin. It is her un-coached, real-world persona that has made her who she is.
Her voice is fine.
SnakeDoc
She is really sexy and her words will sound better using your own perfect voice "pitch".
Already has the hair extensions and tanning bed! ;-)
One of those inequalities in life. Many woman have this problem as public speakers. Its why women do not succeed on radio as easily as men. It can be overcome to some degree and the poster was only relating what many of us have noticed. If she simply kept her voice at a normal level when she is making an important point rather than go up in pitch, that would help. What is most unfortunate about having a high pitched voice is the average person with a hearing loss cannot hear it. Very common for a wife with a husband who has a loss to say “He hears his friends OK but not me”. She thinks he is ignoring her but he isn’t. He can’t hear her. He can hear a man’s voice.
She isn’t reaching the audience she could.
I have had a negative reaction to her voice from the beginning. She reminds me of my 4th grade teacher, who was also very nice and very beautiful and everyone loved her. But the voice is nearly unbearable to listen to.
I have some hearing problems and hear best in the middle range, so that may be part of it. I am also Midwestern and while Sarah is, too, as far as accent, I find her accent detracts from the seriousness of her message.
While the men may scream at this, I also think she needs a more business-like hair style. Seeing her lately, I think she has aged beyond the very long hair stage and the hair draws attention to that fact. Something shoulder length would be an improvement, IMO.
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