I've heard so many people dissing her about it. What's the big deal? Sometimes when people move to other countries they acquire accents of the people who there.

She's pretty much always talked like that. I don't see the big deal either.

dancerella said:

Are you English? If not you might not appreciate thast she talks like a bad actress's idea of an upper class English accent. Wait a minute, she IS a bad actress isn't she ....I rest my case.

Shapeshifter said:

She's still always talked like that. It isn't anything new. Watch any of her interviews as far back as '89, and she sounds the same.

And to me, she's always sounded more like an uptight snob reading cue cards, rather than British.

GangstaFam said:

I agree and I don't. While she has always sounded like an uptight snob, now she sounds like she's trying to edge in a foreigner's idea of upper-class English into that uptight snob. I notice a bit of a difference, and I don't even pay that much attention to her.
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For the most part,I really don't mind her accent.But I gotta admit,she sounded horrible in the film 'The Next Best Thing'.She uses this accent at the beginning of the film and it is just dreadful to listen to

I think it got worse after Evita but I blamed it on her vocal training. It sometimes happens to people when they study voice and/or accents and period pieces. Proper diction is a large part of it.

I agree with shapeshifter, it appeared when she started hanging about with the crew she later maaried into, same time she started wearing tweed and burberry, living in a big country house, hunting and generally losing her roots and acting like the English snob she wishes she was! Im sorry, its just not very cool....

Imagine if she came onto the scene now, as she is now, and we hadnt heard of her before - she wouldnt be very cool would she!

Then again Im biased, I never liked her!

She's totally fake

Dewrede said:

Thank you. I totally disagree with you guys who said she always talked like that. No, she didn't. I remember seeing her on Letterman years ago around Dick Tracy/Truth or Dare times and she did not have that fake ass accent. She didn't talk like she does now in Truth or Dare either.

never had a problem with the way Madge talked




"it softens hands while u do the dishes"

same thing that happened to this woman:



they forgot where they came from.

Is that Tina Turner? I havent really seen or heard her talk in the last 20 years, whats she like now?

susannah said:

a snooty english woman from Nutbush city limits

TheRealFiness said:

Really, wow. I cant beleive Ive not heard her speak since like the early 80s! Does she just not do interviews?! Actually im probably basing this in that bio film with Angela Bassett. I cant imagine Tina as an English snob....wtf!

sosgemini said:

A friend and I were talking about Tina's accent yesterday.

TheRealFiness said:

sosgemini said:

exactly. kinna sad, really...

sosgemini said:

i think tina was trying to run as far away as she could from where she came from. she didn't forget, she supressed.

TheRealFiness said:

Oh, yes.

I heard Madame Tina do a phone interview with Tom Joyner earlier this year and I wanted to scream. She practically punctuated every sentence with "dahling." The basic feel was, "I'm oh-so-very European, daaaahling, I hardly know an ass-tickling crumpet crumb about what's going on over there in the oh-so-pedestrian United States, daaaahling."

FunkMistress said:

If you don't stop talking about my good friend and mentor Anna Mae, I will sic Dr. Phil on you!

RipHer2Shreds said:

Oprah, is that you??

FunkMistress said:

no way is that Oprah..thats somebodies Aunt Ethel.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Another one with a fake ass accent.

Stymie said:

no..she just has one of those High Society Black Woman Voices...like this lady:

Stymie said:

shit ya'll aint know? Oprah's real name is Laquitah Jenkins from the Marcy projects in Brooklyn she used to babysit Jigga

FunkMistress said:

She looks like she just made some stinky boo boo, don't she?
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sosgemini said:

Uh-uh. I can't stand to hear Oprah talk, she's so fake she's all over the place.

But Maya? That woman's voice is hypnotizing. Rich and full, and her speaking style suits it perfectly. So there.

FunkMistress said:

Speaking of perfect...hey baby.


Oh, I agree with you on Ms. Angelou's voice.

Oprah and Maya are great orators. I'd much rather hear them speak than half the people out there today.