Mindy Winkler. For those of you not fortunate enough to live near or around the middle of Indiana, you likely have no idea who she is. She’s that gravel-y, strep throaty, nasally horrific voice that you hear doing traffic reports on various radio stations around these parts. Inexplicably, there is some lasik eye place that has hired her to do radio commercials for them, and so now in addition to traffic, I have to hear these commercials where she loudly warbles at me about how great lasik was for her and how she used to be a Colts Cheerleader.
Did I mention that you can almost NEVER hear Mindy talk on the radio without mentioning that she used to be a Colts Cheerleader?
Anyway, before she or one of her friends decides to go all Alison Becker on me, let me just say for the record that I’m sure Mindy Winkler is a perfectly nice gal. But my GOD - her voice. It’s unbearable. And I cannot understand why people in charge of radio keep allowing her to talk on it. Companies have also hired her to do tv commercials, which is actually a little better because she’s not a bad looking girl and it helps distract you from the voice.
Mindy, as I discovered through her myspace page, leads a singing group called Mindy and The Fun Company. And she is the LEAD VOCALIST. Now, the premise of this group, before you get mad at me for over-criticizing, is kind of adorable. I take no issue with the premise. They take popular songs and change the words into positive messages for kids, and then perform at various school events. Which is all well and good, except that MINDY WINKLER is allowed to sing them.
Take a listen to what they did with YMCA here. And I need to tell you that her voice in this particular song is about 30 times LESS annoying than what it sounds like when she just talks on the radio. So that should give you an idea of how irritating her speaking voice actually is.
You guys - she used to be a Colts Cheerleader. Not sure if you were aware of that.
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