Red FM jingles and promos...

RoundyMooney

...all seem to be voiced by the same inane bint.

(redfm.ie, if you're not familiar. I can't find any examples of what I'm on about online )

Being a youth oriented music station, they tend to make use of such things frequently, but why oh why do they;

(a) have to use the same moronic traily offy female voice in an effort to sound, I dunno, sexy or summat?

(b) have a key phrase repeated halfway through with some kind of oversampling/reverb/whatyamaycallit?

(c) apply same formula repetitively about twenty times an hour?

/rant.

Elmo

RoundyMooney wrote: »

...all seem to be voiced by the same inane bint.

(redfm.ie, if you're not familiar. I can't find any examples of what I'm on about online )

Being a youth oriented music station, they tend to make use of such things frequently, but why oh why do they;

(a) have to use the same moronic traily offy female voice in an effort to sound, I dunno, sexy or summat?

(b) have a key phrase repeated halfway through with some kind of oversampling/reverb/whatyamaycallit?

(c) apply same formula repetitively about twenty times an hour?

/rant.

Because they are a "Youth" station! Either an American male Accent (2fm) or a English Female Accent (beatFM, last time I heard it). Them are the rules!

RoundyMooney

Rather irritating though, and why I don't listen to them any more.

Red FM's dolly-bot is irish and female, I think.

Elmo

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Red FM's dolly-bot is irish and female, I think.

Yeah just heard it there, it is the whispering "sexy" voice over,

Your listening to red fm, [echo - red fm]

or something like that.

RoundyMooney

That's the one!

If it were just a station ID, you'd get over it, but they use this hapless woman for every single advert, competition promo, you name it as well.

As in:

Teenayge discoooo in Ballydehob (Buuhlee-dee-hooooaaaaabbbbb) with Stevie Geeee (Steeeveeeee Guuueeeeeeeeee).

Her accent would grate your cheese at the best of times, whoever she is.

djsupreme

Elmo wrote: »

Because they are a "Youth" station! Either an American male Accent (2fm) or a English Female Accent (beatFM, last time I heard it). Them are the rules!

Beat are now using an Irish male and female.

lampydoo

I have to say I quite like RedFM's imaging! I have always wondered why very little CHR stations in Ireland use Irish V/O's. When you look at America its American V/O's, in England its English, Australia its Australian's so why not Irish in Ireland?!?

I know Beat used Marty Miller from launch and their new package with Enda and Olga, both Irish voices sounds great. Hopefully more stations will follow suit. By the way the female voice is Caroline Murphy, she's the Production Director at Red. Thumbs up to her, sound great!

up them Schteps

I think RedFm is very listen-able at all times. Emeair is the girl who does the voice overs I think. Its a youth station, if you don't like it you dont have to listen to it! The beauty of a free market!

vince

the best package red has was the first one whit the english woman from the former vigin radio (cant think of her name at the moment) but they sounded hot. i read somewhere the ditched her because she was english and people didnt like it. what a load of crap. she was replaced by a woman who sounded like a whining child. it sounded **** hot for a small local station starting off. i never heard people moan about english on beat or yanks on spin sw 2fm etc. i thought it was very narrow minded.

Heisenberg.

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RoundyMooney

Ya see, it's not the frequent use of the station name that gets me, most of 'em do that, and it makes sense.

It's the use of this one, and her droning up n down inflections for absolutely everything!

To the guy above who seems to know her, would you ever tell her that someone on the internet thinks she's ridiculous?

spoonbadger

I hate all inane jingles, and just about every station is full of them.

The single most aurally-painful experience i've ever come across is ruth scott's "the frequency" jingle. Has to be the morst retarded, effect-stuffed, drawn out jingle in the history of fail. That woman needs to be removed from 2fm and put in a concrete box, 2km below the earth's surface, where her evil cant get to us.