His voice was pitchy, and croaky, and altogether just goofy.
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Croci (pronounced "croaky") stands for "cash return on capital invested," she said.
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"The last few days were super intense," he said, his voice weak and croaky.
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"Sorry I'm a little horse right now," says Colbert, imitating Trump's croaky dismissal of Brooks.
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"Sorcererz" is a synth-heavy song, underpinned by damp funk rhythms and Damon Albarn's croaky vocals.
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"I was really just pretty numb," she told the BBC soon afterwards in a croaky voice.
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The callow American President (Bill Pullman) from the first film is now a croaky, white-bearded invalid.
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Their voices sound creaky, croaky, rough — with the last syllable of every spoken word dragging on and on.
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He had a croaky, old man voice but in a trance, it sounded as soft as a eunuch's.
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Can we have her as Prime Minister, this living, smiling antidote to our own drippy, croaky, indecisive, soulless Theresa?
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This time, the ballad is poignantly covered by country star Keith Urban, whose croaky vocals tug at our very heartstrings.
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This turns out to be a performance-enhancing substance, as she coasts to the final in croaky-voiced, blanket-wrapped glory.
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The production is simple and unvarnished; his voice, croaky and textured with old age, is laid bare; his songwriting is endearingly uncomplicated.
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" He began, in a croaky voice, "Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you ca-a-ar-ry on . . .
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You'll remember that Crazy Frog rose to prominence (and the top of the UK charts) in 2005 with his croaky cover of "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer.
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He loped to the podium, incongruously rickety in this lithe company, and in his croaky New York whine rattled off his idealistic policies, some reasonable, most unachievable.
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"My God, my first reaction was Puerto Rico was taken back 50 years," Ms. Velázquez said in an interview a week later, her voice still croaky from being sick.
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We had a practice a couple of days back and my voice was croaky, and I'm worrying about going on tour soon when it feels like the old demon's coming back.
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That's when the croaky-voiced Tone Loc was at his peak, when Kid 'n Play and Salt-N-Pepa were perfecting their dance moves, when Rob Base was fine-tuning his chants.
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HOLLY DUNLAPLondon * In "Slow Bern" (February 20th) you describe Bernie Sanders as "rickety", have him speaking in a "croaky New York whine" while giving a "crotchety" speech to students at Morehouse College.
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""Despite claiming to make women sound like men, and men sound like women, to my ears the voice-changing technology made female interviewees sound more like trannies, with the signature croaky-sounding pitch change.
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"My mum's life was shortened due to NHS cuts, that's a fact," he tells me over coffee the next morning, his voice already croaky despite it being the beginning of this two-week run.
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The Image Book does have end credits, but the film goes on a little while longer afterwards in a kind of fuge-like state in which Godard's hackey, croaky, horse voice reverberates on the different channels of the theater's speakers.
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When it gets up in the morning, like a one-foot-tall Donald Trump, the cockerel doesn't question his importance or his right — nay, responsibility — to be heard, and he bellows out, in whatever croaky voice he has, his greeting to the world.
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In pop music, there's often an association of a certain sound or way of performing that's taken to be "authentic"—for example, the pained white man singer-songwriter, emoting the truth of his heartbreak in a croaky voice over an acoustic guitar.
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A dizzying array of stars like Connie Britton, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ian Somerhalder and Mandy Moore – even Jane Fonda makes a cameo, however croaky – all sang their support for Clinton to Rachel Platten's "Fight Song" in the a cappella video inspired by the Pitch Perfect films, which Banks produced.
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The territorial song of females is similar, but somewhat quieter, less melodious, but more croaky and often shorter.Nikolai, J. 1982. Fotoatlas der Vögel. Gräfe und Unzer, Munich, Germany, p. 241.
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William Ruhlmann of Allmusic called the album Chuck Berry's "commercial, if not artistic, peak". Robert Christgau thinks the album is of bad quality, that his voice is croaky and the studio material only fillers.
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In the Pokémon Adventures literary adaptation of Pokémon X and Y, Yvonne has a Greninja named "Croaky". She chose it as her starter in "Fast- Thinking Froakie" from Professor Sycamore, her rival X chose Chespin, and Fennekin had its Poké Ball misplaced after an accidental encounter with Xerneas and Yveltal. As a Greninja, Croaky is shown to be a very serious and efficient Pokémon, which is an accurate portrayal of ninja-like discipline but contrasts with its implied mischievous nature in the video games.
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Singapore, Oct 1994 Many rails are very secretive, but white-breasted waterhens are often seen out in the open. They can be noisy especially at dawn and dusk, with loud croaky calls. The Andamans population insularis is said to make duck like quack calls.
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Three distinct calls have been described. The first, ‘coo-oo, eee’, might be related to nestlings. The second, ‘coo-oo, ooo’, is distinctly louder but still soft. The third, ‘cor-or’, is "a quiet, croaky, almost guttural utterance", not unlike the call of the domestic pigeon.
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The most common call is a loud, rising croaky gnow sound by the females,Pizzey, G. and Knight, F. (1997). Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. and the male call is the same except smoother, shorter and higher than the females.
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The sexes are indistinguishable by external appearance. Birds from Sri Lanka have a broader white tip to the tail feathers. Malkohas are generally very silent but will sometimes produce a low croaky kraa when flushed. Young birds have dull and non glossy upperparts and some brown feathers in their wing.
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Daniel Orubo of Konbini Channels described "Fia" as a "coherent" track that uses Davido's "croaky voice". "Fia" was nominated for Best Pop Single and Song of the Year at The Headies 2018. The accompanying music video for "Fia" was directed by Clarence Peters. The Stefflon Don-assisted remix of "Fia" was released on March 30, 2018.
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The song was described as tropical house with "Wayne's signature croaky, Auto-Tuned vocals". It was shared on Onhel's Soundcloud page, crediting himself as the primary artist and Wayne as the featured artist. It was released one month after Wayne released four songs. Rumored to be a single off Wayne's unreleased Tha Carter V album, the song was leaked in early August.
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It's like a croaky 80-year-old lady." It was co-produced by Paul Kosky (who was also their manager) and Chris Robinson with Andy Baldwyn and issued on Wah Wah Music/Sony Music Australia. In 2003 Kosky left the group and Wah Wah Music to Robinson, Andrew Murfett of The Age opined, "Tensions between the band and Kosky were building. Something had to give.
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Allan will have to take a cab to meet the doctor on his return. The cab duly arrives, but in going to meet it, Allan slips on the path. The cab driver turns out to be Eric, Katherine's boyfriend, who has a croaky whispering voice which he attributes to a cold. Olive, who has come looking for him, helps Allan back into the house.
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In 2016, Julia Lennox of AndPop.com reviewed 15 of VanderWaal's song covers posted on her YouTube channel, praising her arrangements, vocal delivery, musical taste and "the combination of sass, attitude and confidence she brings to every cover".Lennox, Julia. "Every Grace VanderWaal Cover to Prove She Has a Million Dollar Voice", AndPop.com, September 15, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2017 In another 2016 assessment, USA Today characterized VanderWaal's voice as "endearingly croaky".
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The breeding season is during the summer rainy season (mainly June to August in India) but can vary. Laboratory studies have found that long day illumination and high humidity trigger gonadal growth. The song of the male is very soft but complex and variable, audible only at close range. This song described as a jingle consists of a series of high notes followed by a croaky rattle and ending in a slurred whistle.
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These are text files which can change characteristics such as pitch range, add effects such as echo, whisper and croaky voice, or make systematic adjustments to formant frequencies to change the sound of the voice. For example, "af" is the Afrikaans voice. "af+f2" is the Afrikaans voice modified with the "f2" voice variant which changes the formants and the pitch range to give a female sound. eSpeakNG uses an ASCII representation of phoneme names which is loosely based on the Usenet system.
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Marge was particularly upset by her father's death, as Homer had to buy her a white noise machine to try and get her to deal with it. Like all the Bouvier family, his voice has become croaky through chain-smoking for a number of years. He also shares the same grunt as Patty and Selma, both of whom resemble younger female versions of him, while Marge more resembles her mother. In "Treehouse of Horror III", he was eaten at King Homer and Marge's wedding by the former.
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The Slow Show is a British indie pop band, formed in Manchester, UK in 2010. Their music has been described as "minimalist but epic numbers steeped in atmospheric sonic landscapes" with singer Rob Goodwin's "croaky baritone" as a feature that stands out. They have been compared to the likes of Elbow, The National or Tindersticks. Outside of the UK, they are best known in Germany – where their record label Haldern Pop Recordings is based – as well as the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, based on the number of concerts played in each country.
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"Reflective new direction for one time Britpop hellraiser…the wistful bedsit realism of "Wish I Was With You", and the loveless companionship explored in "I Took That Woman Home Last Night", point the way for a brave and newly impressive writer".Uncut Magazine, March 2002, p.106 The Daily Mirror wrote: "…his songs contain a dreamy charm and tearful romance. A few more sunbursting riffs (the excellent "What We Talk About") and we can call him a boss.Daily Mirror, March 13th 2002 "Parfitt’s thing is croaky, tousle headed soul (Chiltern, Westerberg, Springsteen).
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George Stephenson "Onkus" Wallace (4 June 1895 – 19 October 1960), was an Australian comedian, vaudevillian, radio personality and film star. During the early to mid-20th century, he was one of the most famous and successful Australian comedians on both stage and screen, with screen, song and revue sketch writing amongst his repertoire. Wallace was a small tubby man with goggle eyes, a mobile face and croaky voice who appeared in trademark baggy trousers, checkered shirt and felt hat. His career as one of Australia's most popular comedians spanned four decades from the 1920s to 1960 and encompassed stage, radio and film entertainment.
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