Raven Symone's The Cheetah Girls

The Cheetah Girls series was of the few Disney movie series that was considered a classic to little girls, pre-teens, and teenagers in the early 2000’s. The first movie premiered in 2003, and by 2008, there were three movies. Raven Symone, Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, and Sabrina Bryan found themselves in the living rooms of families across America and while they expected to become role models for young girls, they did not know that their vocal habits would be passed on to their younger audience as well. The Cheetah Girls series are good good movies for children to watch, but they are not a good example of what to sound like. At the age of eighteen, Raven Symone started filming for The Cheetah Girls. She had the most vocal energy throughout the first first movie,

She remained on the breath through most of the movie, but there were times when her voice would get ahead of her breath and it sounded like she was running out of breath. Like most teenage girls, Raven slipped into the “I’m a teenager and I’m talking to my friends” vocal trend. She had glottal onsets and some subglottal pressure when she spoke, but mostly in scenes with the other girls, almost never with adults. She also used baby talk, vocal fry and decay at the end of sentences; however, I do not think it was habitual. Her character was supposed to be portrayed as an ambitious young lady, and it made sense for her to slip back and forth between a mature teenager, and a teenager who just wants to become a superstar. Adrienne Bailon was twenty when she filmed the first movie of the series, and she had the worst vocal habits. As the oldest of the four teens on set, Adrienne sounded the youngest and worst of the group. She got caught up in trying to sound young and it did not work for her character. She had nasal placement with high energy, but she fell off a lot of her sentences and had vocal