Valley Girls, Vocal Fry, and the New Sound of Power: Who Really Has ‘Permission to Speak?’
glamour.com, you probably spend more time dissecting the voices of famous—and infamous—women than you realize. In 2022, the internet dedicated to picking apart Julia Garner’s accent when she played Russian turned “German” in Inventing Anna.
As part of the larger bimbohood reclamation, Paris Hilton recently that her syrupy baby voice—the subject of decades of tabloid fixation—was part of a “perfect-life Barbie doll character” she created as a .
And in 2021, the , “animated and full of emotion” as the New York Times it, enchanted the nation when she read “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.From imitating cheeky Love Island villains to about ' deep voice, it’s clear that feminine voices influence how we perceive public women—and the amount, or lack, of power we believe them to possess.
In a shifting political landscape in which diverse women and femmes are increasingly winning seats and making themselves heard in public, , who’s worked with Gal Godot, Rachel McAdams, Ruth Negga, and more, tells Glamour that the era of “voice justice” is here, and it’s only just beginning.
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