Valley Girl Talk

I had to cut that off after a few seconds. It was making my spine hurt.

And while I'm thinking about it although I know this is not what you meant, I should also make it clear I'm not talking about accents from different parts of the country or different countries. I'm talking about people who put on certain types of fake sounding accents to sound cool or gangsta or airheaded.

That is really weird. Where did that even come from? Meaning, was/is there some local Toronto celeb who spoke like that and made it regionally cool?

Wow.

That sounds like a super exaggerated... part newfie, part Bob and Doug McKenzie, and part 'like' barbie. I haven't heard anyone out here speak like that.

Inflection can be part of it at times but what I notice most is how people say certain vowel sounds. Like instead of saying "best" they say "baast".

Example: "O.M.G.! This is like the BAAST eyeliner EVAR! It RUHLLY highlights the dull look in my eyes!"

Like this?
https://youtu.be/tqNhEzrWQpY?si=2yuX_c9h7TBcsNea

I really hate it when people talk like that. They sound really childish and stupid, particularly when they're trying to lecture me on morality or things I know more about than they do, and I'm almost inclined to slap them.

I almost started a thread asking how many people mute commercials because I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who does that. Sometimes it's for reasons other than Valley Girl accents but that's certainly part of it. Other reasons include idiotic singing and dancing like in the thread about medication related commercials or terrible background music that makes my ears want to bleed. 😂

Although Valley Girl speech originated in California (maybe back in the 1980s when the Frank Zappa song came out?) it seems that it has permeated speech patterns throughout the United States over the past 40+ years and has become woven into the tapestry of "how to sound cool as a younger female" no matter where you live in the US. Maybe because I'm GenX and have seen (or should I say heard) the world before and after it, I'm more sensitive to it than someone who just always heard such speech patterns. I equate it, even if I shouldn't, with people sounding shallow.