I had a small stint as a radio deejay in a very small market, but the hours sucked and the pay was nonexistent. That sentence was to qualify what will be seen as just anecdotal evidence, but it comes from a misguided position of knowing. Female rock DJs try way too hard.

Take a quick listen to your favorite rock station and if they have a female DJ you will hear two things: their voice is lower than most females you know and they have a whiskey tinge to their voice. The reason for this may be due to demographics research. The radio station heads could believe that females can't connect with a majority of rock listeners without a gruffer female voice or one that sounds like she was at the bar all night. False!

Another reason might be from the females themselves. Perhaps they feel they can't be taken seriously with their regular voice. Then they adopt this fake lower registered voice. False at least on the listener side.

It was the most shocking thing I encountered at the radio station when the person you hear on the radio sounds different in real life. People you thought sounded great on the radio actually didn't talk like that in the real world. Sometimes that is good, but other times there was no reason for it they just wanted a different voice.

It adds up to the female deejays just trying too hard. Be straight with the listener; be who you are and the listeners will take you seriously and listen to what you have to say. As it stands now, I turn you off even if you are giving me viable information about the local rock scene. Poseurs are found everywhere, but the rock world doesn't need any more of them. We already have Buckcherry and Finger Eleven for that shit.