Hour Long Streisand Interview About Her New Album

I watched 30 seconds of it. She's been giving the same interview for 50 years.

That couch looks like the same couch on the cover of her 2009 album.😳

[quote]I watched 30 seconds of it. She's been giving the same interview for 50 years.

She’s been releasing the same sappy songs for 50 years too.

I made it to about the 40 minute mark. I had to open other tabs, though.

She starting to get an old lady speaking voice but you have to admit she looks great there.

Could she make the GYPSY movie from her three piece suite?

This is the best interview she's given in a long time. The Apple Music guy keeps her interested. Can't wait to hear the album.

Another interview...

Wow, all that face filler is not doing her any favors. She looks like cat lady.

The image difference between the interviewer's shots and Barbra ones is funny. She almost looks like a Pixar character, with those filters.

She's obsessed with her fugly childhood because she couldn't control everybody. She wants to bury 'Barbara' and rise from the ashes as blonde Malibu Barbra.

Five years to design a house? Not once does she say, "Oh, Jim picked that out- isn't it gorgeous?".

Can we skip to Yentl?

R10 I haven't seen that much Vaseline on a camera lens since "Moonlighting."

I can't believe everyone is missing the biggest reveal in that interview: she finished her book!

Barbara is so boring....

Can't anyone ever spell my name right? There's no "A" between the second B and R. My parents had to take it out to support my Toucan Sam nose!

Are there any old famous people who embraced the physical change to age gracefully? Who?

Maggie Smith!

Barbra really negotiated the best recording contract in history. She had total creative control over what she recorded and owned her own masters from Day 1. That's unheard of today.

Barbra is a much better businesswoman than Taylor Swift.

She’s such a boringly vain person. Bitch, you’re old. Own it.

Who would buy her book?

She seems like she is from the Ethel Merman days.

I give her credit for being the laziest woman on earth.

[quote]She’s such a boringly vain person. Bitch, you’re old. Own it.

I agree. It would be nice to see her stop being so uptight and not take herself so seriously. Get a sense of humor.

One more facelift on this one and she’ll have a beard.

Does Babs own her masters?

They pulled her so tight this time she can't bend over.

This is all I can think of when looking at her now.

I love Barbra, and I was fascinated by the interview. She's a true artist. And yes, she does tell some of the same stories, but many of the interviewers along the way ask similar questions.

As much as I love her, I'm ready to move beyond the ballads and over-orchestrated productions. I wish she would do an album of upbeat, fun songs like Stoney End, Second Hand Rose, Marty The Martian, You're The Top, Enough Is Enough and belting out He Touched Me. Have some fun and a few laughs. Everything doesn't need to have a deep meaning.

It's hard to believe Barbra is thirty-nine!

I used to like her a lot, but some of these celebs are stuck in a rut of trying to stay relevant doing the same thing they did the last 30 years or more. It’s fine to do something new, but if it’s just a rehash of the same old thing, it is not new. Is it a way of denying one’s mortality? Time to get off the fame carousel, Babs! Plus, I thought she retired with those concerts where she charged thousands per ticket?

She uses a motorized chair to drive around the house. Servants lift her and help her with bowel movements.

[quote] Does Babs own her masters?

Yes, and it's why she frequently releases greatest hits albums and new albums of old, unheard songs in her vault. She owns everything she's ever recorded and every TV performance she's ever done, including her old CBS specials. This is one of the reasons that she's worth at least $500 million.

"A smart businesswoman, who has made millions trading stocks, she also owns the master tapes to all her recordings - something The Beatles, Prince and Taylor Swift never managed to negotiate.

They're stored in a specially-curated vault, where the floor-to-ceiling shelves are crammed full of tape boxes, movie canisters and reels of television specials.

And it's here that Streisand put together her latest album, Release Me 2, delving into the archives and dusting off 10 hidden gems from her six-decade career.

Funny how that quote mentions the Beatles etc. to big up Babs. But there's no mention of Stevie Wonder, who own HIS masters. But that wouldn't benefit the ass licking of Babs.

Please don't discuss licking the ass of a seventy-nine-year-old woman, thank you very much

That is one image I can definitely live without.

Why doesn’t she try something new and do an R&B album or something? Something totally bizarre to shake things up a bit instead of the same old shit that all sounds the same?

So these songs so from her TRASH!

R35 Her songs have been boring trash for decades because she never reinvents herself.

Why is that dude’s shirt inside out?

Can she still sing?

R29, perhaps she retired from performing concerts?

You Light Up My Life is great and even the pissiest Queen on here should be happy with it.

I don't know who the audience is for this anymore.

R40 What a boring, repetitive album cover.

Did I miss something? Why is this new album called Release Me 2?

Was there a Release Me 1? I don't recall there being one.

R38 she has some good low notes. She cannot belt anymore. That’s why every song she has released in the past 15 years sounds the same. She can do soft ballad voice rather well. Her voice is thin without high notes.

R43 Relase me was indeed released in 2012. Peaked #7 in US, amazing actually.

^^Thank you.

R33 Do you think her and Jim recreate the famous Allison Williams sink scene???

With her now-alto voice, she should do a Carpenters cover album and call it "Karens".

Bab's voice is not gospel influenced. An R&B album would be terrible. You also don't know her audience to even suggest.

Q: You've long talked about directing a "Gypsy" movie musical and starring as Mama Rose. Is there any hope that project could still happen?

Streisand: Can you imagine? The last film I wanted to make was "Gypsy" because it was a perfect bookend to "Funny Girl": music (also) by Jule Styne, book by Arthur Laurents, working with Stephen Sondheim again. It just seemed so right. That was my idea in 2009, when I started to talk about "Gypsy," and then somehow it all fell apart. I don't know why.

The other thing I wanted to do is play (French actress) Sarah Bernhardt, 'cause I feel some strange connection with her. She was an incredible woman – she played Juliet when she was (in her 70s). So it's not about age. Did you see my Apple interview (with Zane Lowe)? I think I look damn good. I could still play Mama Rose.

I wonder what she said instead of "in my 70s." As someone pointed out before, she moves like an old woman. That cannot be CGI'd out.

[quote] The other thing I wanted to do is play (French actress) Sarah Bernhardt, 'cause I feel some strange connection with her. She was an incredible woman – she played Juliet when she was (in her 70s). So it's not about age.

Miss Streisand, I served with Sarah Bernhardt. I knew Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt was a friend of mine.

Miss Streisand, you're no Sarah Bernhardt.

[quote] I wonder what she said instead of "in my 70s."

"a year away from starting a ninth decade," which is what she is.

[quote]Bab's voice is not gospel influenced. An R&B album would be terrible. You also don't know her audience to even suggest.

Uh, gospel and R&B are two totally different genres.🙄

And basically you’re admitting she has no range and can’t challenge herself.

Gospel singing is the root of R&B, hon. Where do you think the blues came from?

[Quote] And basically you’re admitting she has no range and can’t challenge herself.

Would you want Babs to suddenly start singing with a twang? She's not country queen either and why should she be?

Wonderful interview.

If she sees herself as an actress why has her output been so few and far between? Why does she hate the stage? Why is she afraid to play character roles or look ugly on film?

Reminds me if the Jack McFarland Method: "Remember: acting... is attrACTing".

Meet The Fockers was character, no?

Release me from her singing and muppet face

[quote] You Light Up My Life is great and even the pissiest Queen on here should be happy with it.

Well, since you sound like the pissiest queen on here, you would know.

You Light Up My Life is the era of Barbra that I love. Nice tune, great vocals.

[quote]You Light Up My Life is great and even the pissiest Queen on here should be happy with it.

I'm glad she did the Carole King song of that name, which is superior to the Debbie Boone trash.

That said, I listened to her duet with Willie Nelson and it was awful. It is about how they are best friends. With Barbra's mannered performance, there is no way that is believable.

I thought it was that awful song by Debbie Boone. Glad to find it isn’t. I like it. Also like Be Aware.

Is Willie Nelson not similarly rugged as James Brolin? Not as handsome, of courrse.

I love Babs, but I wish she would release some upbeat, up tempo songs and give the audience a bit of fun and that early Barbra ballsy broad from Brooklyn.

I think it's best she stays away from the dance floor.

To be perfectly frank, I prefer G's version to Streisand's.....

[quote]I love Babs, but I wish she would release some upbeat, up tempo songs

Barbra always sounds like Kate Smith doing disco when she sings what the kids are listening to -- and that was when she still had a voice.

Yeah, getting down is not Barbra's thing.

[quote] "Can we skip to Yentl?"

As long as no one pretends "The Prince of Tides" is anything but absolute bullshit, R12. Fuck, I hate that movie, and I'm a Streisand fan.

R68 I loved how Forbidden Broadway mocked Glenn's singing in Sunset Boulevard.

"[little, frail, bird-twitter voice] I don't know why I'm fright[loud, flat, bass voice]ened."

Interesting how she cites Richard Gere's sexual amibiguity.

[quote]Barbra really negotiated the best recording contract in history. She had total creative control over what she recorded and owned her own masters from Day 1. That's unheard of today.

HER MANAGEMENT negotiated her recording contract. she didn't, nitwit. THEY could negotiate anything because no one gave a shit. Kind of like today.

Prince of Tides I liked when I was younger but rewatched recently and wasn’t impressed. Not sure if my taste in film improved or it just hasn’t aged well. Anyone else? Nick Nolte’s hammy acting was pretty cringe.

Did you see any empty shelves at Target? Like paper products, cleaning supplies, soap, etc?

800 pages, Can't wait!

All I think about in OP's video it who did her eyebrows? They should be fired immediately.

*Love* all Barbra's fawning over Judy Garland in that interview, she's been milking it for almost 40 years now. The truth is that Streisand was very nonchalant when she went in to do rehearsals for The Judy Garland Show in 1963. People who worked on that show were perplexed at her attitude, her lack of awe for Garland, and the fact that she walked in with flip-flops, sloppy clothes and dirty hair (Rainbow's End, Coyne Steven Saunders). The bit about Streisand and Garland becoming "good friends" beyond an annual phone call or less is bullshit too imo.

I imagine anyone working with Garland at that time in her life would be a little... circumspect.

"Hello, Barbra? This is Judy, Judy Garland, your close friend Judy Garland! I've been in New York for a week, and the St Regis asked me leave this morning...some nonsense about non-payment of a bill. Can I stay at you flat for a few days? It'll only be a few days, and I don't take up much space. It's just me, my trunk, and a couple of shopping bags with pills, vodka and reading material. Liza's not picking up, so naturally I'm calling my next dearest friend, YOU!"

---- CLICK, DIAL TONE-------

How could anyone spend an hour interviewing her about ANYTHING?

[quote]People who worked on that show were perplexed at her attitude, her lack of awe for Garland

Barbra knew that her talent was superior to Judy's and that she would soon replace her.....and she did. Judy knew it too.

Barbra outdid Judy in records, films, Broadway, awards, fame, money, all of it.

Gosh no. Most of Bab's discography and filmography is dreck.

R45, suggest you do your best to listen to Walls- last release- didn’t sell- too serious- but tell me she cannot belt- especially Lady Liberty and Take Care of the House. Her best work in years- and she certainly belts as needed in her last concert vid. Yes not as elastic, timbre is thicker and rasps on occasion- but read the reviews of those concerts-

No one is perfect, everyone has there own taste, but Streisand has no rival in recording history who has sang a wider breadth of material from ballads to pop to classical to boss’s nova to disco- and some of her own (3 on Walls). She is devoted to philanthropy, political activism, and LGBT rights using her great wealth and fame to those ends. In a world of fake everything she is the authentic entertainer, singer and artist.

There are some very very stupid people on this thread. Really stupid.

Sheena Easton turned her hand to a bunch of genres too, and charted well with most of them. That doesn't mean we need to bow down. "Whitney sang a snatch of opera!"

Some people are easily impressed...

God knows how many kids (millions?) lost their fathers in the 1940s. What makes you so fucking special? You don't hear all those kids whinging about it for 70 fucking years!

Did those kids all look like aardvarks? I think not.

LOL that Barbara wants to play a great actress from the past when her face is jacked up and barely moves. Her delusion has no boundaries!

Barbra saw Judy as a mess who had thrown away a great career.

And she saw Ethel Merman as a brassy ham whose appeal was a secret to her.

Merman >>>> Streisand

Streisand's voice is really a shell of its former self and has been for a while. I don't think this would be such an issue, were it not for her charging such astronomical prices to see her in concert.

I'd like someone to ask just once why if she owns her masters and is supposedly worth 500 million, why charge such ridiculous prices? Of course, we'd probably get another itemization of expenses to justify her prices, like she's done in the past..

I'm a fan of her music and many of her movies, but her insincere attitude and a lack of appreciation towards the people who got her to the Marie Antoinette in Malibu lifestyle has always been a turn off. And on top of that, she thinks being off putting and ungracious is somehow endearing. Oh, she appreciates her fans . She appreciates them to buy her latest CD, or if you can't mortgage your house to see her in concert, buy the accompanying DVD and CD with the 125th versions of People and The Way We Were on it . She has a mall to keep running and another painting to buy.

She's not Cher, Diana Ross, Dolly, Liza or Judy. Admire her from afar. She wants it no other way.

People don't pay for music. And how often do you hear a Barbra Streisand song in a movie or in a commercial?

[Quote] I'd like someone to ask just once why if she owns her masters and is supposedly worth 500 million, why charge such ridiculous prices?

She toured last time in order to buy a painting.

I think she thinks people find her aloof diva persona endearing. Her perfectly manicured self important presentations like this interview are grating. She does look good for her age, but you can tell she really hasn’t really evolved personally, and in that way she’s very Norma Desmond—stuck in a world of her own grandiosity.

She’s so BLAND. She didn’t even answer the first question and instead told the same stupid stories from her childhood. I couldn’t even watch to the end of her first answer.

Or maybe that was the second question. First we learned how happy she was in quarantine because she didn’t have to go to the dentist. Scintillating.

OP, will that be LP, eight-track, or cassette?

Comments like these make me so damn glad I don't give a shit about being 'hip". Give me Streisand any day. No goddam gay culture anymore.

I feel like a faggot.

[quote]Barbra knew that her talent was superior to Judy's and that she would soon replace her

There is such a thing as respect, which Judy, even in her diminished state deserved. None of that from Miss Streisand. And this is the person who a year later would cower in Lena Horne's presence at Arthur Laurents' Christmas party.

Because she knew better than to pull that shit with Miss Lena.

Didn't Mae West go up to Babs at a party and tell her off? Streisand was reportedly shaken.

“Didn't Mae West go up to Babs at a party and tell her off? Streisand was reportedly shaken.”

What did she tell her off about?

Did anyone read "Didn't Mae West go up to Babs at a party and tell her off?" as "Didn't Mae West go up into Babs at a party and tell her off?"

[quote] Streisand has no rival in recording history who has sang a wider breadth of material from ballads to pop to classical to boss’s nova to disco- and some of her own

No rival? Miss Francis sang in twice as many genres, had way more hit records, and sold millions more around the world in 7 different languages, all before Streisand even left Brooklyn.

YAWN.

Why did Streisand act like Garland was a used up has been and then cower in Lena Horne's presence?

Because Lena was 100 times better than Barbra was on stage, and 1000 time better looking even in her 40s. With Babs, it's mostly about LOOKS. Judy worked, but she looked like a cadaver.

I'd really like to know how she's managed to keep her hands looking so young.

Who is this Zane person who interviewed her? Is he well-known to all but me?

He's well know in the UK. He started on MTV.

Is he gay? He sounds gay.

He has wife if that's any indication.

No, he does high profile interviews. He did that one sit down interview with Kanye years ago. He does a show on Apple Music as well. Straight.

He made sure you knew he was straight in the interview with Streisand. He said what "they" think (i.e., gays) and mentioned his "friends who are in the LGBQ community".

You can buy the album cheaper at Caldor or Grants, OP.

They showed a still of her face without the soft lighting and it was absolutely terrifying.

I heard she has been dictating her memoirs to one of her secretaries since 2007.

Is Renata her lover?

[quote]Didn't Mae West go up to Babs at a party and tell her off? Streisand was reportedly shaken.

It was at a party at Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's house right after Hello, Dolly came out. Barbra was a fan of Mae's and went over to introduce herself. Mae allegedly said something like, "I saw Hello, Dolly and I don't appreciate you trying to mimic my persona. You need to find your own persona and stop trying to steal mine."

Barbra was upset and taken aback, but her friends told her not to take it seriously since Mae was old and a difficult woman. Mae had a history of attacking other actresses who she thought were trying to mimic her. Raquel Welch said that Mae was the Wicked Witch of the West.

Bette Midler tells the story of a similar run-in with Mae in this video:

Well, Mae was right. Bab's Dolly was a complete steal.

And Mae was forced to dress as a Gibson Girl. Babs wasn't.

Babs made money on Christmas music.

Why not a Chaabi style album for the end of Ramadan celebrations?

There was a video a few years ago of Streisand visiting her old dressing room at the Winter Garden Theatre where she performed in Funny Girl and it was memorable (to me) because it seemed very spontaneous and didn't seem to have any special lighting or lens or camera work or obsessed investment in the control over the way she looked.

And she finally looked like the 70-something woman she is but IIRC she's also very charming and funny. It was actually kind of refreshing.

Can anyone find it and post or link it? It's a great contrast to this interview. TIA!

She has been talking about a DVD set of her career, kind of a video companion to her '91 box set "Just for the Record", for a long time now.

She even told an interviewer that it was finished. I also read that it was supposedly 12 DVDs!!! Twelve?!?!

Anyway...where is it!?!?!?

The format died so it's been shelved.

She said she kept many cut scenes from "The Way We Were" and wants to release a special edition.

She is delusional.

[quote]I'd really like to know how she's managed to keep her hands looking so young.

It's usually achieved with products like Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid.

Streisand herself admitted she was mimicking Mae West in Hello Dolly. Go to 5:35 and again at 5:55 in the video.

She doesn’t own that film.

I think she was talking about her wretched version of A Star is Born.

R100, and how did Barbra not show respect for Garland?

Voice is a shadow of its former- did you listen to Walls? Did you go to her recent concerts? Did you read the notices?

R130, the story I've heard is that Streisand was unimpressed with Garland or the Garland show. She was blase about being on this TV program and was not in awe of Judy. There's nothing disrespectful about that, just odd imho.

I'd love to know how much it costs to keep that Malibu compound running, it must be a bloody fortune.

Does she ever shut up about how long it took her to decorate that fucking house?

Yes, R132, and it would cost a bazillion more if she provided a group health insurance plan for the mall staff!

She may or may not be talented... but her awful personality eclipses anything else.

Fortunately her New England manor house and gardens with Ze Olde Towne Square shopping mall, will slide into the sea one of these days. It's GHASTLY.

Old face, same stories

I see "charlie" is in here at R84. He's afraid to sign his name anymore, but a seasoned Datalounger can always spot his drivel.

I scanned through some of the album tracks on Youtube and I echo the above poster - I don't know who the audience for this particular kind of music is anymore. Even the Boomers I know don't listen to it. They still listen to other artists from the era like Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor but not Barbra Streisand. Even to them, I guess her stuff is kind of outdated.

Great interview, hardly the same old stories, who knew Richard Gere turned down "Yentl"? I never heard that.

Streisand's albums pre WALLS sold well. Those wine cooler seniors love her schmaltz.

[quote]I haven't seen that much Vaseline on a camera lens since "Moonlighting."

Honey, I haven't seen so much vaseline on a camera since "Mame".

For R121. I think this is what you were referring to. I have an uncanny visual memory but can never remember where I put my Aricept.

This was the beginning of what would be extensive plastic surgery,

This was the last time she looked like herself and her face had the character and integrity of a wise woman who had lived an incredible life.

....

This intro reminds me of Babs and her over styled presentations - overly dramatic with swelling orchestral background music.

R139, there are always the movie worshippers, and those born right before the Boomers (1939 - 1946) who like vocalists. The latter were hooked on FOLK music in the 1950s-60s, but a lot loved Broadway and pure singers. Then there are the 1970s crowd who found out about Streisand from A Star is Born. Believe me, I had massive issues with these swooners THEN. They know nothing about music, yet cling to certain performers. There must be something missing in their lives for them to attach themselves to Streisand or any other singers so firmly. And lastly, there are the ones who like a catchy tune and SING A LONG to it when they hear it LIVE. Never got that, Babs would be appalled.

Also note that people go out of their 'age defined musical category' and like what they want to. I'm with them. My favorite music is 1950s jazz, which was 25 years before I was born. If they say I'm wrong and should like such-in-such because of my birthdate, I saw FUCK EM.

In the interview, she states that she only wants to focus on the present, yet she spends all her time living in the past. She literally cannot stop talking about how she tried to get The Normal Heat and Gypsy made but couldn't. They didn't get made because she's impossible to work with because of her constant need for total control. You would think that she's the equivalent of Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder or Orson Welles the way she talks about her need to control all aspects of making a movie. She would have been far more successful in films if she had just sat back and let other more talented people do everything.

I don't know if I believe that. See: "All Night Long."

Barbra Streisand - 1964 - Funny Girl Opening Night 03-26-64

r143, thanks for finding and posting the Winter Garden dressing room clip. Love it! Hope others here enjoy it, too.

Is it weird that Streisand obviously didn't want to be in the dressing room while Sierra Boggess was there?

R151, here's the whole interview.

Not really, r151.

Barbara appeals to people who like easy listening elevator type music. Her aesthetic is very show tunes with heavy orchestration.

I am never surprised how much she loves to talks about herself as a VERY important person.

R148 - NAILED IT

I think she is so controlling because she is frankly fug and not confident enough to be collaborative. The frequent closeups of her butter face are a hallmark of her delusion.

R154, you are a very simple minded individual. There are THOUSANDS of reasons people like/don't like Streisand. Your reasoning is very ignorant.

Try again.

What? You don’t think she is easy listening? That is her brand.

CBS misspelled her name in the first minute!

can't believe how she let her titties hang out in that clip to hamlish

Good catch, R159!

Remember when she called Tim Cook to complain about how Siri said her name? lol

Where did all this hair come from? What's with the cowlicks?

When Streisand was in her 20s, her hair was straight, thin and flat:

But in her 30's it wasn't.

That's a wig, R164. Without it, she had the Jon Peters' perm. It looked AWFUL and probably damaged her thin straight hair.

Did this album debut at #1?

Avigdor WAIT!!

THAT'S IT?

PLEASE - MORE! MORE!

I love this photo of Barbra from "What's Up Doc."

...and this one from "On A Clear Day You Can Forever."

OY ^

I love Madeline Kahn.

Go and listen while you change your dead orchids

Love Barbra

I was expecting her to look terrible but it actually looks like the bad work she had done about 5 years ago has been fixed.

Pop, American songbook, a bit of rock and disco, bossa nova, classical, country, holiday- more or less has sung about a five fold more varied repertoire than any singer alive or deceased. Some of you just don’t know if it- or only part of it.

She does tell the same stories and answers often, but then she’s asked the same questions. She never plays victim- rather she relates how difficulty has fired her success- that’s the context.

She gives away millions, most of it anonymously. Ditto her support for progressive pols.

Control? She exerts no more control over her work than Dylan, John, McCartney, Beatty, Eastwood, Redford, Jagger, you name the male star. She has had the same A &R, production team, special musicians and personal staff for decades. Difficult or a professional who happens to be a woman. Nothing she has done in her recording career or movie career is different from any male star of her stature.

Thanks for the same contribution, charlie. She never plays victim? Re-think that position.

I know this is off topic but I don't care for the house or the waterwheel. I'm sure she designed it all herself.

She wanted "New England" in Southern California, R177.

Mrs Brolin spent five years designing her very own Marie Antoinette hamlet. That’s how much PASSION FOR DESIGN she has.

[quote] Pop, American songbook, a bit of rock and disco, bossa nova, classical, country, holiday- more or less has sung about a five fold more varied repertoire than any singer alive or deceased. Some of you just don’t know if it- or only part of it.

And except for a small set of pop material she sang the rest of the genres badly, betraying no understanding of the material or even a desire to want to connect with it. She has also had a terrible habit of being condescending towards the material outside her comfort zone. Bitch, if you didn't want to record it, who forced you to?

Streisand is like wasabi. A little goes a long way.

It was standard for artists to record multiple genres back in the day.

I'm not old enough to remember her movies, let alone her music, but isn't she mostly remembered today for the "Streisand Effect"?

As far as signers of that era go, I prefer Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick to Barbra Streisand. Dusty and Dionne were masters at interpreting lyrics and making you feel like they'd lived every single word, but Barbra's always had difficulty in that department.

Wasn't the a story Babs told about hearing a lovely version of "Alfie" on the radio. She rang the radio station to ask who sang it only to be told: Barbra Streisand.

*there

No one watches her old movies. She talks about them like they are beloved. While she was designing her house, I am sure her husband was cheating. She made me have sex with her.

Gen X here and Barbra has never been a big deal with us. Millennials even less so. Gen Z don't even know who she is. She's definitely a Boomer thing.

charlie? ^

[quote] has sung about a five fold more varied repertoire than any singer alive or deceased.

Again, R175, see R104. Miss Francis beats her on the varied repertoire.

She was already incredibly dated by the early 1980s.

Don't ridicule charlie (he's R175). He was an early boomer and found his gay wings listening to Barbra Streisand.

I wish the guy who interviewed her wasn't such a sycophant.

It would have been more interesting if he had challenged her, like saying, "You did an amazing job of directing Yentl. It was beautiful. But, will you admit now that you were too old for the role? And that wearing full, glam, fem makeup as a 'boy' and not shaving your hair made the role unbelievable?"

Mike Wallace made her cry.

R143 what the hell is that witchy wrote she is wearing? And does it have a. bustle or was she en enormous walrus type human?

robe

As far as popular entertainers go, her impact on show-biz in the 1960s is only rivaled by the Beatles.

If you were not there, you cannot know.

Tell that to Oprah, sitting at home watching The Supremes.

Her mother gives her side of the story.

And sings!

Listen to how much better of a singer Barbra is than Dionne. Barbra's voice is so many levels above Dionne's that it truly boggles the mind. She understands the lyrics and you feel every word. Dionne sings like she's seeing the lyrics and music for the first time and is struggling to get through the song. She's just not capable of singing a song like this. She can't sing anything outside of light pop songs.

Here's Dionne's terrible version.

Nonsense. Dionne can go deep.

Totally enjoyed this interview, including the intelligent way he was obviously engaged with listening to and reading back to Barbra his having listened to and what he interpreted from what she was saying. She's bright, sensitive, and -- not a control-freak -- but somebody who simply wants to be able to accomplish things without others "doing" her life for her. That's not controlling, it's being--accountable, accomplishing, responsible. No man would ever get that diss. Brava.

Look at the fringe on that chair. Shut up you psycho bitch!

I actually think Dionne’s version is good. I was prepared to hate it, but have to be honest.

[quote]Barbra's voice is so many levels above Dionne's that it truly boggles the mind.

It doesn't matter.

That's not what pop singing is necessarily about.

Streisand's voice is clearly technically better. And that's fine.

However Dionne has a sound that connects. She sounds wistful, vulnerable, remorseful, wise.

We listen to singers for more than their ability to hit notes and control their breath.

Streisand's version of "Be Aware" is sung better but it sounds glossy, slick, Disneyfied. If that's your thing...enjoy.

Streisand has been out of the limelight too long. She doesn't even have a million followers on Twitter and she was once considered the biggest star around.

Rosie actually has more than her. I wonder how Rosie feels about that. She's more well known than her idol.

Dionne did a great job with "Guilty."

Barbra's "Be Aware" is beautiful. Not crazy of some of the other selections on this album, but Be Aware is Barbra at her finest.

Comparing singers is stupid. People have been listening to Bob Dylan for sixty years, how do you compare that voice?

R193, that would never happen because people like Streisand have interviewers screened to see how "friendly" they are. She doesn't want to have a Mike Wallace thing again.

The Mike Wallace interview is the most interesting one she's done. He has no reason to fawn or be a sycophant like everyone else including this guy. Yeah she ends up crying but you've never seen somebody cry in an interview before? He gets her to reveal more of herself and go deeper into her past than she ever has because she isn't in total control and it's refreshing for once. I bet nobbody has ever had the guts to do that before even her own therapists. She clearly did not like it but never has she appeared so human. And then of course she went automatically back to being her own creation as real as Mae West.

So how does this shitty album actually sound? Really.

The whole thing's on Youtube r213.

WTF? She's selling a Release Me 2 covid mask? I must be misidentifying it.

Not being known says more about later generations and their "relevant" bullshit than it does about Streisand.

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It's too late, R217.

[quote] I can't believe everyone is missing the biggest reveal in that interview: she finished her book!

Oops, she now corrects to say "almost" finished. 824 pages long! Maybe "next year".

In fairness, filming Gyspy doesn't leave a lot of time for proof reading.

Is this with an interviewer, or did James just record her on his cell phone while she spent an hour talking to herself?

Why'd she stop directing films? She seemed to be anointing herself the next great director and first female star director. Then she just quit.

She didn't quit. No one wanted to make her directorial projects happen with her.

what did she try to make r223 (other than The Normal Heart)

She mentions in the interview a proposed movie with Cate Blanchett. Someone will remember the title. I don't.

I'd love to see these two divas generate off-camera drama.

She can't finance the films herself?

Her book details how she spent who knows how much money and a door knob or something which she could only find in Prague or somewhere.

Never sink your own money into a project.

What happened to the Catherine the Great movie she was planning? Or was it a flim adaption of Mae West's Catherine Was Great?

Absolutely NOT, R221. How could you say such a thing. It was the kid granddaughter holding the phone.

[quote] What happened to the Catherine the Great movie she was planning?

Streisand pulled out when she found out she was being cast as the horse.

I like that she is still such a JAP. That's a throwback identity from olden times, now.

R232 What is a JAP? Is it something Jewish?

[quote]I like that she is still such a JAP. That's a throwback identity from olden times, now.

Not in the NY Metro area! JAPs are alive and well here!

Streisand was po'.

Are you allowed to say JAP? I guess if you're not talking about our WWll enemies.

The Japs killed the parents of a few Dataloungers.

I’ve always wanted a real son.

Do you think Streisand will win the war?!

[quote]What is a JAP? Is it something Jewish?

Jewish American Princess. One thing the fatherless Streisand probably never was.

Something like this.

Not all JAPS are born. Streisand became one. Fabulously

[quote]I like that she is still such a JAP

HA HA. Streisand is many many things, but she is not a JAP. A JAP is a Jewish girl pampered by her parents.

Gilda Radner's Rhonda Weiss character was a great JAP parody.

The album didn't even chart on Billboard in the Top Ten.

Is that a first for Barbra in a long time?

Release my BM

r345 Emotion peaked at #19 and Walls peaked at #12.

r247 are you psychic? How do you know what r345 is going to post?

No one under 50 gives a shit about Streisand.

Barbra is totally a Boomer thing. Gen X was never into her, Millennials even less so, and Gen Z doesn't even know who she is.

Barbra Streisand Makes History as the First Woman With Billboard Top 20 Albums in Seven Consecutive Decades

What's wrong with her face? Barbra was aging like a regal lady.. Now she looks like a Beatrix Potter rodent. Is she on prednisode?

It seems like an invented category - At least 1 Top 20 Album per decade.

[Quote] Barbra was aging like a regal lady

Pics or it didn't happen.

Not a control freak? She painted my fuckin microphone white!

Somebody told me years ago just before she started with all the plastic surgery he saw her on the sidewalk in southern Cal and she looked like a little old Jewish lady. I guess when that started to happen she through aside all fears of a surgeons knife.

What an ugly woman!

Will Barbra be a guest star on the E series BOTCHED soon?

She wants #1 Albums in Seven Consecutive Decades.

I think she won't be satisfied until it's NINE consecutive decades.

[quote] he saw her on the sidewalk in southern Cal and she looked like a little old Jewish lady.

Did he say that to her? Maybe your friend caused her to go under the knife.

[quote]I think she won't be satisfied until it's NINE consecutive decades.

She is saving the Gypsy soundtrack to be in her ninth decade.

I'll oh dear myself. She 'threw away.'

Does she have a record store in her mall?

[quote]Does she have a record store in her mall?

She has replaced it with an adult book store. It has the seediest video arcade in Southern California. She refuses to pay good wages or bus fare to Malibu so the jizz on the floor is seldom mopped.

She’ll never have a number one album this decade. She is old news except among mall staff who wait all day and hope she appears once a month.

With their minimum wage check

She never should've let the public know about that stupid mall of hers, she should've kept it private. It comes off as so narcissistic, ostentatious and just bizarre. That's one of the first things people think of when they think "Barbra Streisand," and I think it's hurt her public image. It's kind of Marie Antionette-ish and doesn't do her any favors.

Will she be attacked one day at the Mall ATM with a hatchet? I hope there are security cameras.

Since covid, the mall has fallen into disarray.

I agree - I think she thinks people find her pretentiousness charming. But they really don’t. The Marie Antoinette comparison is appropriate. Apparently she had a play farm like Babs’ store where she could play milkmaid.

Does her mall have Black Friday door buster sales?

Its not really a mall. It's a folly and they are non unknown in the mcpalaces of the super rich. Sometimes even just the McMansions of the rich.

It's a claustrophobic street with a couple of mock little boutique to display various collections. I've been in two such follies and they are creepy. On the other hand, construction workers and carpenters and such make money so what's the big deal.

Her name is Barbra...

When Babs goes they can embalm her and she can lie in state, here to receive mourners. How gruesome.

Everyone always says my clit is so much sweeter.

What goes on in the food court? Does it have a Panda Express?

R271 Petit Trianon in Versailles, lovely place. MA escaped court gossips and rules.

Le Petit Trianon is not the farm, rather a small pleasure palace deep in the gardens.

Le Hameau de la Reine is the play farm.

Her work after the 60s does nothing for me, but I don’t know how people can listen to her albums or the Funny Girl cast recording and not be moved. That Barbra wasn't packaged or planned - it wastage joy of someone finally getting the spotlight.

It *was* the joy. Though I think that joy ultimately has some wastage…

I went down to Stoney End….and then had it redecorated.

Word is that both Sears and J. C. Penny's, the anchors at Barbra's mall, have closed and been vandalized. Only in Malibu, kids, only in Malibu.

Streisand is BORED, and probably owes her record label product to release. Gladly most of it is old recordings, nothing new with what's left of her almost 80 year old voice. It's well past time to retire - singing or talking in public.

Once her autobiography is published (I assume in 2022), she can do the rounds of interviews and gloat about book sales...then disappear. But that won't happen. Her mother died in her 90s, I can see Babs living to 98. In her 80s and 90s she'll be bored bored bored, and she'll force us to hear her flap her mouth over and over, same old stories, same old self-importance. UNLESS California is obliterated in a catastrophic earthquake/flood/ fire.

Her speaking voice is so lower class New York....Zane Lowe is such a suck up wishy washy hipster

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I found the interview very interesting and watched the whole thing. She is an intelligent woman. Her face looked amazing. How do they manage to make her look so young?

They shoot her through linoleum, r287.

Interesting, R274, I've never seen that before. She actually does a commercial for the carpet company!

Mommy called me a fagela!

Belle of 14th Street...

All these years later, the Color Me Barbra special is still breathtaking. Her instrument, phrasing and overall musicianship is incomparable.

[quote] Petit Trianon in Versailles, lovely place. MA escaped court gossips and rules.

And then came the guillotine!