Drippy female/male singing in adverts

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This trend has been going for a few years now. Drippy singing accompanied by acoustic guitar or piano, singing cover versions of big hits in adverts really make my ears bleed! They sound awful & are so depressing. If there's any advertising execs out there bring adverts like the old Cadurys adverts, Tetley teabag men, something a bit jollier & easier on the ears!
If anything is guaranteed for me to mute the tv instead of take notice of the advert it's this. These adverts are the work of the devil..

This makes my very even-tempered DH desperately search for the remote to “mute the prick”

It's Mariella Frostrup that does the Fevertree radio ads .

I absolutely LOATHE the Amazon advert. I change the lyrics every time it comes on: what Amazon needs now / is unions and fair pay.

And that bloody Jess Glynne hold my hand song needs to fuck off and get in the bin already. She sounds like a screeching sheep every time she strains for a high note.

I find the Clive Anderson radio 4 programme, Loose Ends, always seems to feature a female singer singing drippily in the guise of 'new artist'. Not sure if he is trying to emulate the late, great John Peel, but his chosen artists are awful! Tuneless, quivering, nothingness.

To be fair the actor in this is Joel Montague, very successful west end actor and currently in Hamilton. I don’t think it will do any harm and he will be playing it as directed!!

This gives the rage. It started with that John Lewis advert and Lily Allen ruining a perfectly good Keane song and don’t get me started on wherever you will go being murdered.

Is Cadburys world still as depressing as it was when I was a kid? (about 20 years ago)

We went and all I remember it being was a boring tour, with 1 ride and a small bag of chocolate at the end 🙄

@EllieRosesMammy yes, it's not much different 🤣 we took our kids in 2004 too, after a holiday in Florida. There was no comparison, Florida definately won lol
This time was a bit better as there was a 5 minute 4d cinema show & the Santa show. The Santa show was quite good really, our dgs enjoyed it.
Now I feel old...

Totally agree.

Luckily I don't see many ads these days. I did have the misfortune to have a Spotify playlist shared with me called indie Xmas which seemed to have endless whining depressing cover crap by Phoebe Bridgers and the like. Nope. Not for me.

I try to avoid adverts these days but I’m so with you on dramatic whispering scenes in Films and TV programmes. Drives me mad. Does nobody in the editing suite check whether you can understand what the actors are saying? My DD just has the subtitles on permanently mainly for this reason.

I completely agree with OP but I also thank you for bringing back the word “drippy”. Perfect description and shows our age 😂 When I see (hear) ads like these I comfort myself thinking they’re all conjured up by a bunch of Clem Fandango’s (Toast of London) and I never remember what they’re for anyway. Had to google vocal fry though 😂

Totally stealing “breathy chanteuse” and “vulnerable sleeve” 🤣🤣

Fair enough, same applies, just switch women. Jenny Eclair once joked she only ever got the voiceover work that Mariella Frostrup wasn’t available for!

Dear TV and film actors and producers

Please don't whisper and mumble
Please don't drown out everything with constant music
Please don't make it necessary to turn on the subtitles

That's it. Thanks.

This advert makes my blood boil! It’s so wimpy, pathetic and over-acted. The woman who bought him the suit looks like she’s cherishing watching her first born son in his nativity and it’s just so naff. I heckle him from my living room when it comes on. Yuk.

Or the very earnest reworded songs / looking at you Flash

Makes me cringe inside and out

Hate hate hate radio ads!

This is one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Maybe I knew the boy singing it in another life and we were mortal enemies as the moment I hear the line -

'Now I'm shaking, drinking all this coffee
These last few weeks have been exhausting'

Sung in a drippy, weedy voice it gives me instant rage.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2viLEW-1A

They use that line in adverts for game apps.

Irritating hungover 60 a day voice!

Perfect thank you

I was trying to find a way to describe radio newsreader Katherine Cracknell and this is the perfect description

I always thought it was Mariella Frostrup doing these adverts.

I’ve since been told it is, same difference though, just replace one with the other

Don't forget it's mandatory that vulnerable sleeve(s) must be accompanied by mug cradling.

Ah I don't know him. Of course, I thought he'd be playing as he was told - it's not usually the actors decision on stuff like this I guess? Hopefully it won't harm his future roles! Very cringe ad though.

Is anyone old enough to remember the Shredded Wheat advert with a warbling woman singing “there are two men in my life, to one I am a mother, to the other I’m a wife, and I give them both the best with Natural Shredded Wheat”?

Even the mug is knitted on that image!😴