Somebody PLEASE tell Jennifer Beals to stop using the creaky voice! It's the most incredibly annoying vocal affectation ever. In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact. Stop it already!
