VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: Hello, my Name is Amy Walker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&feature=related

I don't know if this has been posted here before— it crossed my "desk" this morning.
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bobsouer · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:58 am Post subject:

It's always fun to see that again. I remember seeing a news interview with her a couple of years ago in which she was asked where she really is from. She replied in one accent. Then answered the next question in another. And so on through the interview.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:05 am Post subject:

Valley girl who got oodles of hits, lots of publicity and went on to become the girl who got oodles of hits and lots of publicity.

Does American British RP, is a cockney some kind of male bird, American British RP again, can resist saying top o'da mornin to yuzz, can move from County Clare to somewhere in Northern Ireland mid sentence, able to make five million people fall off a chair the noo, sells Pizzas to people in Vermont, never met a German but did watch Hogan's Heros, aspiring Bond girl called Yuraccentia Sux ...no I can't keep this up..will to live gone offski.

todd ellis · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:16 am Post subject:

i actually went to her website. i think she might end up one of those people at the party that i wish would leave early ... but probably won't.
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

My producer at CBS was impressed!

Either that, or he was being sarcastic.
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SilverSurfer3001 · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:42 am Post subject:

I can tell you for a fact that her Chahle-stuhn accent has never been heard anywhere on the streets of Charleston. Unless the MGM Studio sets from Gone With The Wind qualifies as the streets of Charleston - but even the exteriors were shot in Mississippi, so SC never really actually enters the equation except by reference.

There isn't a single soul in the great state of South Carolina who would even deign to speak in that ridiculously goofy style. If she want's to get an authentic but exotic accent from the Southern US, she may opt for Gullah, but she would likely be run out of town on a rail for being racist - just ask anyone who has ever tried to read Uncle Remus in the actual dialect.

Frankly, I think that anyone could "master" 21 accents if all that they were required to say was "Hello, my name is [insertnamehere] and I'm from [insertbigcityandcountrynamehere].

Parlor trick at best.

But Kudos to her for ingraining her name to everyone who clicked her link.
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JBarrett · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

I still can't figure out why she doesn't just write her name under the "Hello, my name is" line on the label. Sheesh!
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asnively · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:58 am Post subject:

Ok, here's the thing. She has a smooth vocal quality for every accent until she gets to, like, California at 1:40. Then she does this gravelly thing as she says "California, L.A."

OMG.

I do that thing with my voice, too. (Haveta try not to when doing corporate VO, but people actually ask for it when I'm doing a commercial. It appears to be en vogue.) I do it automagically-- some spoken 'notes' just hit that gravelly place.

Is this a California thing?
An L.A. thing?
I'm an L.A. native...is that why I talk like this?
How could I have spent my entire 39 years thinking that I had no accent whatsoever, and only now learn that I have a typical L.A. accent?
How could I be so naive?

And why do people in L.A. always make everything about them?
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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

amy - you are anything but "typical".
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JBarrett · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:31 am Post subject:

Amy, I grew up in Washington State, and frequently find myself hitting that gravelly drop-off. During a recent pick-up for a job, I became very conscious of the fact that I was doing that a lot, and had to just as consciously avoid it 'cause it most definitely was NOT there in my original read.

While I did live in California for a short stretch, I doubt that I would have adopted that habit between the ages of 2 and 4.
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gravelly drop-off is my specialty

Lee Gordon · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:11 pm Post subject:

I got yer gravelly drop off right here.

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Darren Altman · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject:

I agree with Silversurfer: " I think that anyone could "master" 21 accents if all that they were required to say was "Hello, my name is [insertnamehere] and I'm from [insertbigcityandcountrynamehere]."

It's like when people say "I can do a killing homer Simpson" and all they can do is yell "d'oh!!!" Or "Check my Ronald Regan" and then do a lop-sided grin and say "my fellow Americans"... twice!!
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