'It's that breathy babyish voice that so many ne-ish women singers seem to have, and I am not concerned with HOW they make the noise, only WHY.'


I don't know what 'ne-ish' is, but other than that, I know where you're coming from. That breathy, babyish style has been around for quite a few years, and it's getting really old.

I believe that it proliferates because media managers feel that a real, live grown-up woman is too threatening to the boys and nebbishes who patronize mass media.

I don't listen to rock stations any more, but the few times I heard the woman announcer on a rock station, she also had a girlish tone of voice - not babyish, but very gentle and comforting. She sounded like a kindly kindergarten teacher. Bleahh!