Does listening to someone talking with a fry voice bother you?

People intentionally talking with a fry voice is getting popular. Fry voice sounds like they just got done gargaling with scouring powder. The voice tends to creek and crackle especially at the end of each sentence. Women on the radio (NPR) seem to be talking with a fry voice more than men.

I had a older woman boss one time that had an extreemly gravely voice due to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes per day for over 30 years. That didn’t bug me at all. That was her natural voice.

Rod McKuen has a very gravely sounding singing voice (likely due to smoking) but I’m pretty sure that I have all of his albums. Love him!

Listening to young women intentionally contort their voices to achieve a long time smoker’s voice is just weird to me. It’s hard for me to concentrate on and understand what the fry speaker is saying as I get fixated on the sound of the voice (I’m more caught up on the sound of the crackle voice than on the speaker’s words). It sounds unnatural and fake to me. I can’t take it for long.

Do you enjoy this fry manor of speaking?

Do you intentionally speak with a gravely sounding voice?