How has Barbra Streisand sold 150 million records? Her music is god awful, people actually listen to this?
>>130869329she's an amazing dancer and performer.
>>130869329I can't even name one song by her.
I couldn't name a single album or even song of hers
>>130869355uh.."The Way We Were"? "Guilty"?
I'm not a fan, but everybody has heard a Streisand song, even if you didn't know it was her
>>130869329Poor lady was a crooner born 20 years too late. She so wished she could have been singing in Artie Shaw's band.
>>130869329>Barbra StreisandOoo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo oohOoo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooh
Look at the Billboard Hot 100 of basically any year ever, and you'll learn fast that the top 10 for every year is loaded with tepid mom slop>Heard Woman in Love on supermarket radio not 2 hours ago
She raped a man in the 70s, somehow no one talks about it, you know why.
>>130869551https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1968An exceptional year, but there was still #3.
>>130869329Jewish
>>130869551>Look at the Billboard Hot 100 of basically any year ever, and you'll learn fast that the top 10 for every year is loaded with tepid mom slop*cough*You Light Up My Life*cough*
>>130869329Trust fund band
This was huge hit in 70'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udLeOOy6em4
>>130869329I thought the thumbnail was Carole King.
>>130869706What?!
>>130869329are all celebrities by law required to get these ridiculous facelifts?
I like her more as an actress. Meet the fockers, classic.
this one is a banger https://youtu.be/hQLGCX8D-1Y
her duet with donna summer is great
most of her albums through the 80s are at least passable (if many of those suffer from 80s production disease), as the 90s begins she's over 50 and starts to sound like it, the albums get slower and lower energy from there.
my mom digs "The Way We Were" despite not especially digging Streisand's politics, but oh well.
>>130869329I only know her duet with Donna Summer "Enough is Enough" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5i2Dj5YO3QI don't know what her music sounds like, but I imagine it to be just the same vocals on top of orchestra type of music, like the intro of that song.
>>130869329>How has Barbra Streisand sold 150 million records?many of these numbers are fabricated. unless they are directly from the labels, but even they lie, the people who post these numbers to wikipedia or whatever dont really have the actual totals
>>130875956>I don't know what her music sounds like, but I imagine it to be just the same vocals on top of orchestra type of musicaccurate?>>130876040also Thriller didn't quite sell as much as Sony claimed it did
The Broadway Album [Columbia, 1986]I had hopes for this record, honest. I certainly prefer the show tunes of her flowering to the "rock" (and schlock) of her Hollywood phase, and I enjoy discovering musical-comedy gems my normal interests would never steer me to. But unearthing gems is not Barbra's purpose. There are only three lyricists here--Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, and the album's real reason for being, Stephen Sondheim, who sums up his aesthetic philosophy by rewriting a song about Seurat so it applies instead to that other great artiste, la Streisand. I've enjoyed all the non-Sondheim songs in less precisely wrought versions and am also familiar with a little something called "Send in the Clowns." I admire the cattiness of "The Ladies Who Lunch." The others I'll live the rest of my life without. C
