Jennifer Aniston's voice in the latest Smartwater commercial

[janegold]

I am really confused. She sounds like she is talking with a mouth full of marbles.

Is she okay? Did she have a procedure? But if so, why wouldn't they reschedule the commercial?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPMDnYsD4Jk#action=share

[janegold]

When I googled, it looks like someone actually tweeted back in 2012 asking if JA had a lisp. Has this been a thing for a while? Is it bad sound editing? So many questions.

[TR]

I'm pretty sure she's had lip filler or something with her upper lip just based on recent pictures I've seen.

[rupertpenny]

I think she has kind of always sounded like that?

[MrsDarcy]

YES!! In her last few commercials she sounds like she has ill-fitting dentures or something.

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2017 20:57:24 GMT -5 janegold said:

When I googled, it looks like someone actually tweeted back in 2012 asking if JA had a lisp. Has this been a thing for a while? Is it bad sound editing? So many questions.

Yeah, I just listened and H said she sounded as she usually does but I do think she sounded like she had kind of a lisp in that commercial. And this is a solid 20 years of Friends reruns experience talking! She sounded different to me.

[AlpineSlide]

She sounds different...like she's wearing invisaline or a retainer.

[snipsnsnails]

She sounds the same to me. Maybe her voice is a bit deeper, but definitely still talking kinda "mushy."

[janegold]

I'm really surprised by the people saying she sounds the same. I honestly didn't think it was her, just someone who sounds a bit like her. The entire reason I googled it was to see if Smartwater was trying to make some sort of statement by featuring someone with a speech impediment on their commercial. I could hardly believe it when I read that it is, in fact, JA.

[mrs.jacinthe]

As somewhat of a defense, that commercial is a voiceover artist's nightmare. Lots of trip-up words and phrases.

But yes, it sounds like maybe she recorded it after Novocaine or something.

[greenlight]

Huh. She sounds the same to me.

[nicbreeful]

Wouldn't have known it was her.

[ciescalove]

I've seen that commercial on tv and she sounded normal, but I admit she does sound different in that clip. Don't know why the tv vs. YouTube versions seem different to me.

[janegold]

Sept 6, 2017 21:39:34 GMT -5 ciescalove said:

I've seen that commercial on tv and she sounded normal, but I admit she does sound different in that clip. Don't know why the tv vs. YouTube versions seem different to me.

I don't have cable but the commercial is playing on constant repeat on Hulu and she definitely sounds weird there, too.

[isabel]

Sept 6, 2017 21:00:30 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Sept 6, 2017 20:57:24 GMT -5 janegold said:

When I googled, it looks like someone actually tweeted back in 2012 asking if JA had a lisp. Has this been a thing for a while? Is it bad sound editing? So many questions.

Yeah, I just listened and H said she sounded as she usually does but I do think she sounded like she had kind of a lisp in that commercial. And this is a solid 20 years of Friends reruns experience talking! She sounded different to me.

Yep. I have Friends on in the background all the time. She sounds different. Not super off, but definitely a lisp or something.

[wambam]

Sept 6, 2017 22:54:22 GMT -5 isabel said:

Sept 6, 2017 21:00:30 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Yeah, I just listened and H said she sounded as she usually does but I do think she sounded like she had kind of a lisp in that commercial. And this is a solid 20 years of Friends reruns experience talking! She sounded different to me.

Yep. I have Friends on in the background all the time. She sounds different. Not super off, but definitely a lisp or something.

Seconded

[cleo29]

Yep it sounds different, but I wonder if it is due to something on the recording end. It is not on every s and when i see her in her Aveeno and dry eye commercials, her voice sounds like it always has.

[BaliHai]

It sounds like she's talking with one of her lips curled over her teeth. Weird.

[starburst604]

So weird. When she says "perFECtion" she sounds like Bugs Bunny.

[mmmomof2]

I vote she did something to her lips - the W sound is off - like the Barbara Walter jokes. Which is unfortunate in a commercial for water!

[housewife]

I agree she sounds different, but now it's going to have my paying more attention when I watch Friends. Maybe it's always been there and I didn't notice?

[eb777888]

Does anyone remember when Brandi from RHBH got some weird botox and it made her have a lisp? It sounds like that.

[walterismydog]

Her voice sounds squishy.

[notsopicky]

I'm gonna go with she's wearing something over her teeth (although WhyTF would you do that when you are recording a voice over?)...I sound like that when I have my nightguard in (for teeth grinding).

[fivechickens]

I think her Rachel voice has always been different from her Jennifer voice. So, to me, it doesn't sound different.

[Deleted]

I agree. She sounds different. I just wrote it off as it being someone else until this thread. I have spent wayyyy too many nights falling asleep to Friends to not know her voice pattern.

[game blouses]

I feel like her Aveeno commercials sound like this too. Maybe she's gotten caps or other dental work since Friends?

[tacom]

It's off. But the pattern of her errors is more consistent with dental work, or maybe even kybella injections temporarily impacting her base of tongue muscles and proprioceptive input for overall coordination.

Her bilabials (sounds produced with lips as primary articulators) sound find to me so I really don't think this is caused by lip injections.