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In the steady monotone of a public affairs officer, Lawler painted the slapdash efforts of Musk's army of teenagers and 20-somethings as a "comprehensive forensic audit."

His body language certainly didn’t project enthusiasm at the prospect of remaining with the Lakers for the remainder of his career, as his voice was monotone and his lips were pursed.

“That’s a hard question to answer,” Stewart says in her signature monotone, the voice she uses when she’s not selling you something.

“Emilia Pérez,” which recently took special awards at the Cannes Film Festival, introduces the concept of “halves” set against a monotone backdrop.

In the band’s formative years, NOFX’s defining quality was how bad the group was — bad musicians and bad singers, with Fat Mike’s distinctive, whiny-sounding lead vocals and Melvin’s guttural, monotone screams.