Streisand to release her first new single "Love Will Survive" on April 25

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If she wanted this to go to number one, she should have duetted with Taylor Swift on this one.

I just hope her voice isn’t too husky and hoarse.

How will the last scene be memorable? Is she going to get her tits out?

The last scene shows Yentl getting off the boat at Ellis Island. She starts humming, then breaks out into "Love Will Survive".

Streisand has also been in the recording studio (it's been reported) working on her new album. Apparently, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are collaborating on this with her (not sure if this means 'duets').

She looks good there. I guess the slutty choker hides the neck.

R7 That picture is from more than five years ago (at least).

Her voice is basically shot.

Too bad she’s not in the film. After singing, she could throw her head back as the lights dim as in “Funny Girl” and “A Star is Born.”

She's overdue to make a house record.

Teenagers will flock to get this!

It´s out!

I like it, r13

Her face looks like Muppet fabric.

Yeah, i like it too and it is kinda awsome that she still raising her voice in song at 82 years of age.

Never thought this would be a possibility when i discovered Babs 40 years ago!

Can love survive as long as a tattoo?

This is what California and old age has done to her. If Babs was still a real New Yorker, she’d sing Stop being such assholes, mutherfuckers!

R13. The video has been taken down.

Who? I hope she enjoyed and was inspired by my and my background vocalists’ “Funny Girl” album.

She’s still got it especially for 82.

It sounds very auto-tuned and quite possibly like her voice has been layered with younger, more talented singers. Just a hunch, because I have heard of this thing happening a lot in the industry.

I thought it would be awful but it’s quite lovely. Good for Babs.

That's not how she sounds live. Lots of tech manipulation there. And another of her shit pop songs. Did the Bergmans come back from the dead? Or is only one of them dead and they communicate by seance?

R24, There’s only one dead Bergman, unless you mean Ingrid.

R21, Is that one of Marvin’s piano bench songs?

FAKE singing

Her voice has been lifted a few notes and the huskyness has been cleaned up. She hasn't sounded like this in a few years and it isn't exactly how she used to sound.

Later in her career she got into very wordy songs with little musicality. They are fucking boring. A song is about music, not about a monologue.

R28 Sure, she had a little help with some reverb and maybe a little help from autotune (not as much on the 2018 album Walls), but she really doesn’t sound hoarse if she rests her voice. Her head voice doesn’t have any huskiness even live.

I was there for the 2006, 2012, 2016, and 2018 concerts.

R11,

She was beaten to it.

No way can an 81 year old sing like that or sound like that without a lot of help.

R11 Dance away, bubele!

I like it. Not bad, not bad at all.

R29, I saw her three times at Madison Square Garden in the 90s and at her last concert series in Brooklyn a few years ago. It was night and day, unfortunately. People were leaving en masse even before the last song at the Brooklyn concert, between the quality of her voice and her disposition, people had had enough, especially after paying so much to see her. People were too polite to boo, but it was called for.

- R28

R34, your entire post is bullshit.

Sorry, I burst your little Barbra bubble. I guess I hoit your wittle feelwings, R35.

She’s not auto tuned- sheesh. Here voice is definitely deeper. Rasps can be dealt with by vocalizing which I’m sure she has been doing, because while she says she dislikes it, she has also said she has to if she wants to keep singing.

Barbara Cook’s voice remained quite good although it to deepened with age- well into her 70s.

As Leontyne Price would say, not too shabby. What’s going by on the Israel and the Middle East is heart breaking and this is Streisand’s attempt to address it. Her philanthropy has been directed at Israeli institutions.

“What’s going on in the…” auto correct as crazy as auto tune.

R36, then you went to every concert in the Garden in ‘94? I believe she did two and maybe added a third. Yes I sense bullshit.

R34 I didn’t know anyone leaving at the 2012 or 2016 Brooklyn concerts.

R37, In her later years, Barbara Cook could still hit high notes, but she could not sustain them.

They’re on video and you can judge for yourself if the audience was “cheated”.

R34 is a troll.

Could use a disco mix, but not bad for what it is. I was hoping she was going to open up with the ear splitting power of yore, but there’s an old lady elegance at work in not busting the chops of a Holocaust dirge.

R39, she did three nights in 1994, which I attended. I also saw her at MSG in, I believe, 2006, which I forgot about. R40, I saw with my own eyes people walking out at the Barclays' Center in 2016. It was the night the Clintons where there. I felt bad it happened but I don't blame people for leaving. I wish she had sounded better and had been more gracious because I wanted the two family members I brought, and I had spent $600 on tickets, to enjoy her show as much as I had in the past.

I'm not a fan (different generation) but she looks very good for 82.

How naive are you, R45?

[quote]Rasps can be dealt with by vocalizing which I’m sure she has been doing

With Streisand's arrogance and distain for performing, it's doubtful she spent much time studying and perfecting what's left of her voice.

R42, the 2012 concert in Brooklyn was recorded and televised. The 2016 Brooklyn concert I was referring to when I said the last Brooklyn concert series, was not recorded/televised.

Someone who tells the truth you do not want to hear and repeatedly proves you wrong is not a troll. Who the fuck would bother trolling a Streisand thread FFS???

- R34

I saw that series on amazon. It is a tragic story of a Tatooist who tattoes the gas chamber numbers on the people but one Jewish man fell in love with him and they try to escape the camp together and then the song plays with Babz

Except, R49, the people sent directly to the gas chambers in Auschwitz weren't tattooed.

R34 it was recorded and it’s on Netflix titled Barbra: The Music…The Magic…the Mem’ries

A musical artist can be listened to any generation who have ears to listen. It doesn’t matter if you’re 8 or 80 yrs old

R51, that was recorded in Miami, not Brooklyn.

R53, The Brooklyn concert was recently aired on PBS.

A friend who is a huge Babs fanatic but never had the money to see her was taken to one of her last concerts in Brooklyn by her boyfriend. He paid $300 a ticket so they were pretty high up. She filmed some of it and played it for me. Babs sounded horrible and I said her voice is shot. My friend agreed but she was just happy to have seen her live.

R47, she does not have disdain for performing. Rather it frightens her and she also worries she cannot live up to expectations. It’s called stage fright although toward the end of her career she seems to have gotten over much of it.

Time for this old hag to hang it up.

The Miami concert is from 2016 and the Brooklyn with the orange down 2012. Both were recorded- the Brooklyn concert aired on PBS.

Gown not down

I'm not going to watch the movie. I've had Holocaust fatigue for a few years now. The more I learn about history, or even watching video clips of human behavior, the more I understand how horrific, evil and despicable our species is, even just what once lovers do to each other.

A JimHenson muppet

R56, Streisand admits she counts down the songs, she can’t wait to get OFF the stage. That’s distain, dear.

R58 The gown was coral!

Miss Streisand dislikes the color orange because it is ”too in-your-face." She elaborated on this topic in her design book, her bio and interviews with Gayle King and Oprah W.,who immediately made fun of Miss Streisand. A moment immortalized by Kathy Griffin in a stand-up special ,which in turn is best remembered for talking about Miss Streisand having Oprahs black mic spraypainted off-white to match her Donna Karan sweater.

Therefore no orange flowers in Miss Streisands garden, and the apalling colored fruit,which she can´t eat anyay because she has reflux(but Jim likes them, get buried underneath peaches and apples.

bonus fun fact: Not too long after the Oprah interview Babs gave a luncheon for Sydney Poitier at her home. Guess what color Oprah was wearing in stark contrast to the burgundy to dusty rose colorsheme of the dining room?

I know all this fom the advanced eldergay diva worship knowledge class, as par of the dl scholarship.

Streisand's voice was exceptionally beautiful up to the mid-90s, when she started to lose power and began having difficulties negotiating her way through the upper passaggio. By 1999 a tremolo had appeared and her tone started to sound raspy and opaque, which has only become increasingly evident as time has progressed, because she refuses to acknowledge the physical changes that affect the way in which her vocal tract operates, by adapting her technique.

Nowadays her voice is a mess and while she always had a preference for insipid, lackluster ballads, since her diminished vocal capabilities became apparent she's become increasingly dull and mannered in her delivery, which makes her albums unlistenable by anyone who doesn't want to fall into a coma. This song is a testament to the style on which she has relied more and more since the late-90s: painfully slow, lushly orchestrated, soporifically dull and gradually building to a crescendo that she cannot deliver. Honestly, she ought to have retired at least 5 years ago. She has more money than God and at this point, she's only embarrassing herself.

R63, with all of that MISS stuff, I thought you were the advanced eldergay diva.

This getting tedious correcting some of the stupid things being said here. There were two concert tours, one was in 2012 and called Back to Brooklyn, maybe that was recorded in Brooklyn, I don't know and I don't care. The other concert tour was called Barbra the magic memories, blah blah, and was in 2016. That is the one I made clear from my first post about it that I saw people walking out en masse Brooklyn. That tour was recorded in Miami. Thanks, R55, that was exactly my and my siblings' sad experience also.

-R34, et al.

What do you queens expect? No 80 year old singer has half of their original singing voice left. And with Barbra Streisand - who used to BRAG about not warming up, not seeking coaching/instruction, not taking care of it - sucks at her current age without electronic help, what's the fucking big deal? GET OVER IT.

Damn if it isn't #28 currently on the iTunes sales chart. For an old like Babs this is impressive.

I listed to a bit of it - she definitely does not have the power she had nor the range but it still sounded like Barbra....I mean she was EIGHTY ONE FUCKING YEARS OLD when this was recorded and she sounds damn good for that age.

Having said that, it's generic treacle and it didn't do much for me. But, I mean, most movie songs are.

I want to hear a song from Barbra like Stoney End. Enough with this other stuff. And I love Babs, but come on.

[quote] Who the fuck would bother trolling a Streisand thread FFS???

Well, you, namely, R48.

Are you joking with that completely disingenuous question? On Datalounge, no less?

And no, I don't believe there were walkouts.

The song is whatever. More than anything: I'm glad she's still doing things. Even if I don't listen to anything from her post-1999.

Nobody is complaining about Joni Mitchell’s voice. Let these great artists be and let them express themselves. If you don’t like it don’t listen. What a bunch of cunts.

Truth is that it’s a beautifully delivered song by a great artist- at any age. Bunch of angry nasty unhappy trolls on DL. What else is new?

This should finally blow the Andrews Sisters out of the number one spot. Go Babs!

[quote]Miss Streisand dislikes the color orange because it is ”too in-your-face."

And yet her most iconic moment on film "Don't Rain on My Parade" has her wearing orange.

When like will she like be doing like a tik toc vid for this?

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R75, and in her book she describes just that and the exception being to follow her through the number on long shots which she said worked perfectly.

Love Will Survive

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#200 Switzerland

But the thing is....it doesn't

Well,maybe...but you will!

Come on, put on aunt Esthers old wig and sing along

[quote]Let these great artists be and let them express themselves.

WHO THE HELL IS STOPPING THEM?

Barbra Streisand will go one recording one song after the another until her death in 2038. Obviously they will be autotuned and electronically enhanced, and all of you will eat it up and defend her right to sing.

Love will survive what? Being with Babs? Good Luck.

Who sings for songbirds? Where is my songbird?