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u/UnitAppropriate
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When people think your voice isn't real
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u/Elriuhilu Feb 06 '23
His "real voice" sounds really forced.
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u/ChaoticToxin Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 06 '23
I have no idea who these people are but I wonder if it's like steve-o. He learned to talk with his throat(wasn't the drugs he did)not his vocal cords which is why he sounded the way he did. Steve-o is currently learning to talk with his cords and sounds normal, but it's weird to know you can switch between them
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u/FunkyPineapple90 Feb 06 '23
I think in Steve-o's case, that's the years of drug and alcohol abuse that did that to his voice
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u/ThePotatoKing Feb 06 '23
yeah i had a friend years ago who had a raspy voice like steve-o's. yeah, he smoked and partied, but that shouldnt effect a high schooler like that lol.
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u/Rezmir Feb 06 '23
Steve is open as fuck about his drug abuse, if this was from drug abuse he would say.
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u/KarmaChameleon89 Feb 07 '23
Hasn't he come like a super long way since jack ass and is essentially a model human now?
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u/Rezmir Feb 07 '23
I would say eyes. From where he came to what he is, yes I have become quite fond of him asa human being.
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u/keithwink Feb 07 '23
What does Y - E - S spell? What does E-Y-E-S spell?
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u/Rezmir Feb 07 '23
I have no idea why my phone changed yes to eyes. But I am ok with it.
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u/mead_beader Feb 07 '23
Here, take a look at Steve-O adopting a street dog named Wendy in Peru. Look how happy she is that he wants to hang out and be with her.
And then 4 years later, you can watch Bill Burr go on Steve-O's podcast, and they all chill on the couch together talking, and the dog sleeps between them and Bill Burr pets the dog while they chitchat.
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u/BubonicBabe Feb 07 '23
This is so heartwarming. I saw the original video a couple years ago. Im so glad to see this.
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u/Phoenix4235 Feb 07 '23
I used to know a guy who was in a band that achieved a lot of local popularity. It was a metal band and he screamed a lot of lyrics. (This was way before internet) But he got throat cancer, and his doctor said he had to either quit the band, or he would soon have no voice at all. Long story short, that is very close to how his speaking voice ended up sounding. And yes, it sounded a little forced, but he couldn't talk any other way like this guy.
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u/Broken_Heart_420 Feb 07 '23
I wish people like Stevo were our government politicians instead.
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u/CressLevel Feb 07 '23
There are a lot of people who put real effort into their communities and I constantly see folks talking about how this or that celebrity would be good in office. But what about folks working in their communities? What about those who dedicate their lives to nonprofits? They don't get a lot of attention, because what they do impacts people on a personal and not national, televised level. I think I'm personally sick of celebrity politicians.
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u/TallCupOfJuice Feb 07 '23
because Americans treat politics like an NBA game. its become entertainment
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u/drop-tops Feb 07 '23
Not to derail the conversation or trash nonprofits, but not all of them are altruistic or good. All they have to show is that they don't turn a profit on paper; nothing is stopping that money from going to the owner's salary, "company" cars, "business" trips, etc. You could have a million dollar nonprofit and pay yourself $990,000/year, while only putting $10K towards whatever your "cause" is and still be considered a nonprofit.
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u/emotionlotion Feb 07 '23
All they have to show is that they don't turn a profit on paper
No, they can turn a profit but they have no shareholders that the profits can benefit.
You could have a million dollar nonprofit and pay yourself $990,000/year, while only putting $10K towards whatever your "cause" is and still be considered a nonprofit.
No you couldn't. There's some ambiguity as to what "reasonable compensation" means for nonprofit executives but the situation you're describing is a surefire way to get in serious trouble with the IRS.
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u/themoochiest Expected It Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 06 '23
That turned out to not be the case
https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35385133/steve-o-jackass-voice/
After looking at Steve-O’s vocal cords, the doctor comes back with a solid answer. Apparently Steve-O uses a throat muscle to choke out sound, not his vocal chords as he should. “Really, doc?" Steve-O says. "After everything I’ve been through, you’re just telling me I just suck at talking."
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u/Hungry__Alpaca Feb 06 '23
Gotta be one of the funnier rebuttals I've heard.
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u/sprucenoose Feb 07 '23
Probably was particularly funny hearing steve-o say it. Because of his voice you see.
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u/IcedCoughy Feb 07 '23
its basically surfer bro talk, live in surfer bro town, a lot of them have the same tone and inflections
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u/ChaoticToxin Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
It was not the drugs. He's currently learning to talk with his cords and sounds a lot less grainy
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u/OGSpooon Feb 06 '23
I’ve listened to things Steve-o posted as little as a few days ago and he sounds exactly the same to me.
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u/RedditIsPropaganda84 Feb 06 '23
There's videos of him talking normal, but he said he's going to keep his original voice because it's recognizable.
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u/ChewieGriffin Feb 07 '23
Link?
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u/RedditIsPropaganda84 Feb 07 '23
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u/brando56894 Feb 07 '23
Steve-O looks a hell of a lot better than he used to, Pauly Shore will forever look and talk like a burnout though 😂
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u/dormsta Feb 07 '23
And, like, stop fuckin’ interrupting, man. You asked a question, let them answer.
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u/CedricDemon Feb 07 '23
https://youtu.be/N22XUoG6zLE?t=1023
another clip
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u/Mono_831 Feb 07 '23
This clip is much better. The other clip he just says one or two words, and couldn’t really tell how different it sounds.
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u/Lynda73 Feb 07 '23
He gave that up, i think. He’s just going with what he’s got. But i know he did work with a voice coach trying to get a ‘natural’ voice.
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u/sephrinx Feb 07 '23
The person who you replied to told you the reason his voice is like that, and yet you reply saying that isn't the case, and that you think otherwise?
Explain.
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u/Electrical_Safe4685 Feb 06 '23
He's a rapper that goes by DDG, I saw an interview recently where he stated he had swallowed something as a child that tore his vocal cords, resulting in his voice being that deep. After years of speech therapy, he developed his stage voice because he's insecure about the deep voice.
I don't know if it's true or not, but he did say it during an interview.
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u/Metamorphis Feb 06 '23
I want to hear a conversation between him and Corpse Husband. This is Corpse Husband real voice as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9Y1ULCkB0
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u/slujj-vohaul Feb 07 '23
I dunno who tf Corpse Husband is, but he sounds like Patrick Warburton (David Putty on Seinfeld, wheelchair dude on Family Guy) and Christian Bale as Batman had a baby.
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u/Metamorphis Feb 07 '23
Lmfao, that's the wildest description of his voice I've ever heard. It's funny af to me tho
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u/TheBrokenSwagger Feb 07 '23
I dunno who tf Corpse Husband is
He's a streamer on YouTube known originally for his re-reads of Reddit creepypasta, but recently gained a lot more fame from collaborating with Twitch gaming streamers and YouTube personalities. He used that fame to kick off his music career which mostly involves rapping/talking over other musicians. Though on his most recent release from a few days ago, we finally got to hear him sing.
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u/goingnorthwest Feb 07 '23
I think he blew up mostly off disguised toast's among us collabs at the height of that game's popularity. Hell, he played with AOC.
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u/TheBrokenSwagger Feb 07 '23
I think he blew up mostly off disguised toast's among us collabs at the height of that game's popularity. Hell, he played with AOC.
Yes, mostly from the OTV collabs on Among Us, which also included OTV friends Valkyrae, Fuslie, Sykkuno, and eventually incorporated larger streamers like pewdiepie, xQc, Ninja, moistkritical/penguinz0 and others. To me the funniest collabs included Ironmouse, who has a very high pitched voice. Whenever they played Friday the 13th, hearing Corpse as Jason was terrifying but hearing Ironmouse was one of the funniest things ever. The only thing funnier than that was Sykunno as Jason. He would troll the hell out of the entire lobby acting like one of the "victims" instead of Jason.
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u/JBob250 Feb 07 '23
I'm a little high but if my memory or wheelchair dude in family guy and Christian Bale's batman met, fell in love, had a genetical bab somehow, and raised it up... That'd be a righteous fuckin dude
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u/DrMooseknuckleX Feb 07 '23
Perry Ferrell from Jane's Addiction used to have a much lower voice but screamed during a song and his voice just changed to the higher pitch we know today.
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u/Dickpuncher_Dan Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 06 '23
If you watch the absolute earliest videos of Steve-O, like 1999 stuff, he has a much cleaner and clearer note in his voice then, I suspect that the forced voice came as a result of some subconscious affectation to somehow sound like "one of the gang" or something.
By the way, in the above clip when he and his dad talk about their Rolexes, Steve-O says that his friends have laid bets on how long he can keep it, and that the last bet has been in the way of "weekly increments". His vocabulary is so sharp, it's clear that he comes from a good background and had a head on his shoulders but he inherited the "risktaker/trickster"-gene that sent him in all the wrong directions.
But even back then he had a good heart, like when he did "Bobbing for jellyfish" and got his head stung by the jellyfish like mad, he still asked the fishing guy "Did I hurt it in any way by doing this...?" and the guy just said "I think it hurt you". :)
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u/Baba_dook_dook_dook Feb 07 '23
I recommend reading his book. At first I thought it had to be ghost written but he addresses this and explains that he went to a private school in the UK for a good part of his life and he apparently did quite well academically. People are apparently always surprised by his writing ability, but I guess going to a pretty prestigious school would help with that.
This book is a great cautionary tale about the dangers of both drug addiction and the addiction of always wanting to be in the spotlight or be the center of attention. Fame and money is a terrible thing to have when you are a drug addict.
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u/cluelessbox Feb 06 '23
I would imagine speaking improperly and straining his throat would make his voice sound worse over time. He'll sound crazy when he is a grandpa
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u/Roadman2k Feb 07 '23
For what it's worth. Steveos dad was very wealthy, and Steve grew up rich but moved around a lot. I don't think his dad was all that present and he had a bit if a troublee childhood and a desire to rebel that led him down the path he took
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u/ChaoticToxin Feb 06 '23
You might want to see if you can talk to a speech therapist or whatever the proper name for it is. Honestly it's wild to me and I'm glad you learned you're not the only one so you can hopefully find a solution that works for you
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u/Meowzebub666 Feb 07 '23
I have the same problem.. Generally I just talk like whoever I'm talking to because I have no idea what I'm supposed to sound like. It's so freaking embarrassing. Ironically the only time I don't struggle with how to sound is when I have a sore throat and I'm struggling to make any sound at all lol
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u/vickysunshine Feb 07 '23
Speech language pathologist here! Does it cause any physical discomfort or pain? If you’re in the US, you’ll need to get a referral to an otolaryngologist (ear/nose/throat Dr, or ENT) so they can determine if there is anything physical going on that is causing your voice issues. After that, you can be referred for speech therapy. If there are any speech therapy graduate programs near you, there may be a voice clinic there. Therapy services would be cheaper there as well.
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u/febreze_air_freshner Feb 07 '23
Yeah I'm the same way. My throat always feels strained and physically uncomfortable when I talk, like it's not natural. Now I'm thinking about seeing a speech therapist to see what's up.
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u/Tasty_Ad8044 Feb 06 '23
I dont know, maybe but I also saw a video of an african american on youtube that had as deep voice as him....he said he swallowed a coin when he was young. I dont remember his name because this video had popped up on the youtube home page few years ago , I will see if I can find that guy's video.
Edit: I just did . Here this seems like the video I saw .........Man he seems like he might be the same guy as this dude (definitely changed his hairstyle)
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u/TurnipForYourThought Feb 06 '23
If I had to guess, it's the same principle that a lot of singers use. They'll talk in their singing range so their vocal chords, like, adapt to it or something along those lines. Kinda like Goku and Gohan casually walking around as Super Saiyans to make their body acclimated to the extra power.
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u/ifyoulovesatan Feb 07 '23
Me, ignorant jackass that I am, did screaming vocals in a band by actually screaming. Then one day (right about when we went to record, sadly) I couldn't do it anymore. I just lost the ability to scream. It sounded good while it lasted at least. But yeah, if you don't learn to "fake" scream, you won't be able to keep it up.
This is, I have heard, what happened to the band The Blood Brothers, and why they (for the most part) stopped screaming and when they did scream, it sounded very different from their first two albums. (Compare any screaming on Burn Piano Island Burn to any song on This Adultery is Ripe).
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u/needzmoarlow Feb 07 '23
Matt Heafy from Trivium did the same thing through their first 4 or 5 studio albums and all the tours associated with them. He blew out his vocal cords in like 2014 and relearned how to scream the "right way". In an interview he said the new way is easier than his clean singing and sounds virtually identical live, but he still goes back to the old way for the studio albums.
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u/etherealmachina Feb 06 '23
It’s a running joke he’s been doing since like 2014
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u/ToonaSandWatch Eep! Feb 06 '23
Running joke or real, he’s the second coming of Barry White.
That’s a voice that makes people go
Dude needs to reevaluate how to make solid gold instantly.
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u/lion_OBrian Feb 07 '23
TIL I could make money on r/gonewildaudio if I used my mongolian throat singing skills in different ways.
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u/HoldenMadicky Feb 06 '23
I mean, there's others with the same kind of deep voice. Corpse Husband comes to mind.
He talked about it being due to chronic acid reflux eroding his vocal chords.
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u/RegularWhiteShark Feb 07 '23
His sounds forced.
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u/meta-rdt Feb 07 '23
probably because it's a song, not the example I would have gone with. He has plenty of streams where he talks normally with a similar voice and it doesn't sound forced.
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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Thats because it is but not that he put it on as a talent trick but he's stretched his vocal cords giving him that speaking range. Men and women can preform a pretty convoluted set of exercises that involve chanting "King Kong, KING KOOOOONNNNNNNNNG" with their head turned a certain way and thumping their chest and it can lengthen the vocal cords a lot to make a lot deeper bassier sounds. Usually temporarily but if you really go at it you can make it permanent. https://www.deepervoicesolution.com/2015/06/17/deep-voice-exercise/ do it for long enough and you can get that golden warm radio voice when you try speaking in a deeper lower pitch voice. Something a lot of performers want.
Your voice comes from the shape of your mouth, lounge, noise, sinuses, and breathing habits. What you can do with your voice comes from how you move your throat and consciously control your breath and diaphragm. Stretch your vocal cords often enough and consciously try and you can make some really deep singing and speaking voices but its only with that conscious effort because the natural voice is still your default. Its the same thing that your temporary deeper morning voice comes from after you've slept so even without trying any exercises you probably know exactly what its like (got curious why it happened and looked it up).
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u/ngmcs8203 Feb 07 '23
There is no way that is real. I feel like it's the licking your elbow/ears thing kids do to convince each other that they're dumb.
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u/Deleena24 Feb 07 '23
I used to know a girl that could actually lick her elbow, though.
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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Try it. This shits old. Its just training and stretching of a pair of ligaments in the throat while training and stretching of complementary muscles. That plus breathing exercises and you can learn how to comfortably speak and sing in an extremely low pitch. Comfortably but with conscious effort.
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u/Username524 Feb 07 '23
I’ve met multiple people who can lick their elbows, it blew my mind….every time.
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u/HangrySkeptic Feb 07 '23
That’s because it probably is. The low vocals like his sound to me like vocal fry.. Prolonged use can damage vocal cords (or so I’ve been told). I’m not an expert.
Some vocalists can sing in very low registers like that without the fry. It’s called subharmonics. Geoff Castellucci does a great job explaining subharmonics.
This guy, don’t know who he is, sounds more forced than others. It could be because he is less experienced at that range or it could be because he’s trying to push into vocal fry. Again, I’m not an expert but I’ve looked it up before. Maybe an actual expert can correct me.
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u/moonra_zk Feb 07 '23
Vocal fry can damage vocal chords? Those poor valley girls...
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u/ThePyodeAmedha Feb 07 '23
No, it doesn't necessarily damage your voice. Doing incorrectly can damage your voice though.
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u/Z3rul Feb 07 '23
I would agree, but his lower voice has the same (if not more) power and volume as his "content" voice. You sacrifice volume when using vocal fry. So, no, I don't think so. He might just have a very good natural low vocal register.
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u/stamminator Feb 07 '23
Compared to what? Sounds buttery smooth, no apparent excess tension, plenty of volume. It could be intentional, but it’s not forced.
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u/Alej915 Feb 06 '23
That low voice is impressive, but that is not his natural voice. Complete bs
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u/ZedTT Feb 06 '23
Yeah it is but it's a running joke. He's quite good at the deep voice
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u/RonanTheAccused Feb 07 '23
Oh man. Gonna listen to some Jurassic 5 now and go down memory lane.
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u/flatspotting Feb 07 '23
Way to hold on to what's golden!
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u/East_Requirement7375 Feb 07 '23
"Well I'm the verbal Herman Munster, the word enhancer"
In high school I had a mix CD with What's Golden on it, and if CDs could wear out from use, that one would have.
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u/FrankNitty_Enforcer Feb 07 '23
And don’t forget this track, which isn’t the full j5 but one my favorites 2na fish and cut chemist oldies 90s vibe
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u/picdicc Feb 07 '23
He said in an interview that he damaged his vocal chords as a kid by swallowing something. He went to speech therapy and developed his stage voice because he was insecure about his real voice
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u/equalizer59 Feb 07 '23
If this was the case, my wife would sound like James Earl Jones by now! XD
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u/shelikedmebetter Feb 07 '23
You have to actually reach the throat to damage it... 🤣
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u/WoofNBoof Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
I hold a degree in linguistics -- This is definitely not his natural voice. There is nothing in this world that you can swallow that would permanently alter your larynx to such an extreme extent like that (also, that would require said thing to go down the "wrong tube" -- the trachea instead of the esophagus, which would be borderline impossible without the inability to cut off the ability to breathe). In fact, you can see him flexing the muscles near his larynx before he drops register. This allows the vocal cords to open up and create a richer, deeper sound. You can also hear the manipulation taking place similar to a vocal fry. It sounds raspy and strained; a phenomenon that is not naturally prevalent in a speaking voice. It's still cool that he can do that, though. He knows how to manipulate his voice well!
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u/user_deleted_or_dead Feb 06 '23
He can do a collab with himself on a music and it would sound pretty cool
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u/vancitymajor Feb 06 '23
exactly
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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Feb 06 '23
Just like Marvin Gaye. He recorded his regular singing voice over his falsetto.
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u/KNaitsirhc Feb 07 '23
So many artists do this
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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Feb 07 '23
According to his 1985 biography by David Ritz, he was the first.
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u/sandesto Feb 07 '23
When I was a kid and Guns N' Roses was big, I always thought Slash was singing the low parts. No, turns out that was Axl Rose singing both the high parts and the low parts. Sounds like two different people.
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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Feb 07 '23
Did you hear Axl sing at Lisa Marie's service? A third different voice/person has arrived.
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u/booyatrive Feb 06 '23
Black Thought from The Roots has done that before.>He can do a collab with himself on a music and it would sound pretty cool
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u/pikeymobile Feb 07 '23
Madlib/Quasimoto is the peak of this. For those who haven't heard of him, Madlib is his producer alias and Quasimoto is the rapping persona he uses where he raps over slowed down beats then speeds it back up creating a chipmunk effect. He started doing it because his super deep rapping voice was always joked about between friends.
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u/OG_Kush_Wizard Feb 07 '23
Gimmie The Loot - Biggie and Damein - DMX are two solid ones.
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u/MurderKillRiver Feb 06 '23
He sounds like he's burping the alphabet.
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u/DaddyMcTasty Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
My cool big brother Chad 😎
He just beat himself in 3 dimensional chess and started an online chat room, it's really neato!
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u/Zetyr187 Feb 06 '23
Real voice is cooler sounding imo.
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u/readingduck123 Feb 06 '23
I feel like your comment is the exact reasom why he keeps talking like this
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u/shaggybear89 Feb 07 '23
The deep voice is definitely not his real voice. You can hear how forced it is.
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u/AshyWhiteGuy Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Rapper’s name is DDG and in this clip it sounds way less forced. I’m still skeptical myself. EDIT: I listened again and you’re all right. He’s totally faking this.
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u/flippertyflip Feb 06 '23
Still seems like bs to me.
But hey I know who he is now so it worked either way. Viral.
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u/ygduf Feb 07 '23
I have my voice and I can speak in a lower voice. If that’s his normal voice he should have the range and I’d like to hear him drop it another octave.
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u/SomebodyThrow Feb 07 '23
Exactly, if that’s his voice at rest then he should be able to go deeper, but from much it sounds like he’s struggling I don’t buy it’s his voice at all.
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u/Mono_831 Feb 07 '23
Yeah, he talks much slower and pauses a lot more when he does his deep voice. Just like I have to do when I do a deep voice.
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u/MuggyFuzzball Feb 07 '23
lol how do people believe this? It is way easier to speak the way he does where his voice sounds smoother and younger. He's completely forcing that voice as part of his marketing strategy.
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u/Soleos Feb 06 '23
I think the best tell is the muscle strain at the bottom of his neck around the collar. You can also see his chest and posture change a bit between voices.
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100% you can see his muscles strain when he’s using his deep voice lol
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u/JimmyPopp Feb 07 '23
He also bout to run out of breathe. That’s why he had to back to normal in the middle for a sec
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u/TheRealShiftyShafts Feb 07 '23
100% just a gag he's running, but a good one. Made me laugh, me and my homies would crack jokes like this to eachother
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u/knbang Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
How many times can the woman repeat the same information. Fuck me.
Did you know RAPPER DDG WENT VIRAL BECAUSE OF HIS REAL VOICE????
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u/gonnagetu Feb 07 '23
I’m dying he’s obviously trolling he can’t even talk with the deeper voice for longer than 15 seconds because it’s forced
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u/DangLiWang Feb 06 '23
His real voice definitely sounds mire forced than his "fake voice" ... not so sure about this, need to chill with the dude for a prolonged period of time.
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u/jamiecarl09 Feb 07 '23
It's way harder to fake a deep voice like that. I used to work as a telemarketer (fuck me right) and I had to change my voice for it because it just worked better to get people to talk. All I really did was raise it a few octaves and speed it up. But I did it for so long it's my default voice now. When I'm not thinking or tired, I revert back and people think I'm sick or something.
When I sing karaoke my friends are like "how the fuck do you get so low?" MF that's just my regular voice
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u/ThiccquidBand Feb 07 '23
Same here. My normal voice is too low for a lot of people to understand clearly so I raise it substantially and have done so for so long that it’s basically my default voice now. But I revert back to my natural tenor when I am singing because the magic of microphones and EQ lets me raise the volume and clarity to a point where people can actually understand me.
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u/sycamotree Feb 07 '23
I'm reading this and I actually just realized I subconsciously do this too lmao. Like deadass forgot this is true. Women like my "sleepy voice" cuz it's organically pretty deep, not as deep as the video but pretty deep. Someone mistook me talking or humming for their phone vibrating before.
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u/yesterdayandit2 Feb 07 '23
Yes! I also have what I call my "retail voice". Speaking at a lower octave seems to not work nearly as well as my much higher and faster talking voice. And like you, it has become mostly my "real voice" now and it makes me a bit self conscious as I sound so much more... feminine for lack of a better term.
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u/Maximans Feb 07 '23 edited 25d ago
A few octaves? Most people have barely one octave of range. That’s seriously impressive if true
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u/alexey_bondarev Feb 07 '23
Im sure he meant a few tones, not octaves. Rising typical male's voice 2 octaves up would effectively put it in a range of a typical female, or teenager before mutation. Source: singer
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u/Triesaccents Feb 07 '23
I raise my voice quite a bit, especially around women, because I have quite a few sisters and my dad would yell all the time. My mom and them would react poorly when I talked to them after I hit puberty and I quickly realized that if I raised my voice a few octaves they reacted better. I later found that it worked really well whenever I talked to women so it’s kind of my voice now. People look at me crazy when I talk with a deep voice lol
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u/queuedUp Feb 06 '23
So I believe he may talk like that to people all the time so anyone you ask may say "yeah, that's how he talks" but I also believe that's not his actual voice.
The same way Elizabeth Holmes put on a deeper voice so people though that was her voice. It's all a show.
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u/dusmeyedin Feb 06 '23
Margaret Thatcher also practiced and spoke with a lower voice than her usual speaking voice. During her leadership term, she wanted to be taken seriously and there was still entrenched discrimination against women's voices in politics.
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u/pimp_juice2272 Feb 06 '23
I think Melissa Villaseñor does the same with her voice
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u/IntradepartmentalMoa Feb 06 '23
I’m still kicking myself for letting Melissa Villaseñor con me into investing in her biotech company with that low voice
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u/tratemusic Feb 07 '23
Ughhhh I adore Melissa. She's got one of the most impressive handles on her vocal abilities of almost any person out there. I wish she would get way more roles and sketches cuz she is amazing
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u/irisheye37 Feb 07 '23
Your "actual voice" isn't a thing. Your voice is basically just habit and can be changed over time.
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u/ScenicPineapple Feb 06 '23
One voice is for everyone to like him. The other one is for when he wants people to respect him.
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u/smokedspirit Feb 06 '23
Reminds me of Michael Jackson who had a very deep voice but rarely ever talked with it
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u/darkshy Feb 06 '23
The persons name is DDG. He was originally a big vlogger on YouTube and has now transitioned to rapping.
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u/Evening-Ant6128 Feb 06 '23
Reminds me of those vids of roblox characters, and then what the users sound like 💀
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u/zodar Feb 06 '23
I've heard people say that too much of anything's not good for you, baby
But I don't know about that
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u/VooDooChile1983 Feb 06 '23
I raise my voice to a higher pitch as well. My mom used to call my voice “low, rumbling thunder” because it was deep and I hadn’t learned how to speak clearly.
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u/Jolly-Cabinet-2243 Feb 06 '23
Watch his throat when he talks deep then switches to his normal voice. Thats how you know
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
Guy (I don't know who that is) is asked about his real voice and turns out he speaks in a much lower voice than the voice he uses to make songs and content.
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