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USA Today
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Barbra Streisand swoons with McCartney, Dylan, Mariah on lush duets album: Review
The woman who served us 'People,' 'Evergreen,' 'The Way We Were' and more than 100 other singles doesn't need to record another album. She barely needs to leave her surely-gardenia-scented bedroom. But Barbra Streisand, 83, has always been not just indefatigable, but interested: In creating, in songcraft and in pushing herself. After 60-plus years in show business, she's earned the right to drop the New York hustle ingrained in her DNA and take a breath. Her 37th studio album, 'The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two,' is that breath. It's a cozy, comforting audible hug from a parade of familiar friends, including Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Josh Groban, Sting, Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey. Even Bob Dylan hopped aboard this love train. Streisand's new duets release is the companion to 2014's 'Partners,' with Groban as her only repeat collaborator. While her voice is still that voice – rich in timbre, sleek in tone – she's chosen to share the microphone again because it's a comfort zone. Some of Streisand's finest work has been bolstered by worthy peers, from Barry Gibb ('Guilty' in 1980) to Neil Diamond ('You Don't Bring Me Flowers' in 1978) to Celine Dion ('Tell Him' in 1997). Not so much Don Johnson ('Till I Loved You' in 1988). Continuing her stretch with these 11 cross-generational songs, including a pair of newbies – one with Sam Smith ('To Lose You Again') and the other with Grande and Carey ('One Heart, One Voice') to complete a diva triumvirate – Streisand soars. Highlights are many, but here are a few. More: New music documentaries rock the big screen at Tribeca 'Letter to My 13 Year Old Self' (Laufey) The young Icelandic jazz-pop singer Laufey spoke to Streisand's inner awkward teenager with this heart-piercing ballad from her 2023 album, 'Bewitched.' This lusher recording, laden with plucked strings and two creamy voices blending seamlessly, is more than a deeply affecting ballad with lyrics such as, 'You'll grow up and grow so tough/charm them/write your story/fall in love a little too/the things you thought you'd never do.' It's a poignant look back at how the trivial things that felt like an emotional avalanche as a teen shape us, as well as the importance of taking pride in shutting out the noise. 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' (Hozier) Popularized by the late Roberta Flack, this cooing ballad can sound plodding and endless with the wrong arrangement. But over a blanket of velvety strings, Streisand turns Irish indie-rocker Hozier into a smitten Romeo. Their pacing is like a dance, dipping and rising while always staying within the lines for four and a half minutes of lyrical seduction. 'My Valentine' (Paul McCartney) In its native form, this 2012 Paul McCartney song written for wife Nancy Shevell drifts along on gentle piano and guitar, McCartney's voice authentically imperfect. With Streisand, it's evident how he strives to meet her note for note, breath for breath, as strings swell in the pockets of the lyrics. It's easily McCartney's sweetest vocal since his 'Flowers in the Dirt' days. 'The Very Thought of You' (Bob Dylan) A duet in the making since 1970 between the shy poet laureate of contemporary music and the preeminent songbird of the past six decades doesn't disappoint, primarily because Streisand coaxed Dylan to actually sing. Streisand has said it was his choice to record Ray Noble's 1934 pop standard, and it's a style that suits him as he sings softly with only a hint of his distinctive nasal twang. They seem like the most incongruous pairing, but both hail from the same Greenwich Village haunts, tethered at the core for life. More: Bruce Springsteen is releasing his 'Lost Albums': The songs you haven't heard but need to 'One Heart, One Voice' (Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande) Much as when Streisand teamed with Celine Dion for the vocal duel 'Tell Him,' this seemed like another opportunity to play 'who can run the vocal scales the longest.' Instead, this otherwise generic ballad that preaches the merits of rejoicing in partnership, love guiding the way and sacred gardens with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, showcases a trio steeped in restraint. Grande and Carey sing with delicacy, while Streisand augments their shared vocals with her own resonant tone. They're the holy trinity of glorious sound.
Buzz Feed
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Barbra Streisand Can't Remember If She Had Sex With Warren Beatty
It's safe to say Barbra Streisand doesn't mind raining on someone else's parade. Over the weekend, the New Yorker published an interview with the Funny Girl star in which editor David Remnick pressed Streisand about an interesting tidbit in her 2023 memoir, My Name Is Barbra. 'Possibly the greatest line in the whole book, to my mind, is you say you can't remember if you slept with Warren Beatty,' Remnick said. 'Now, I don't think anyone has ever written that line in the history of sex, or Hollywood, or anything,' he added about the heartthrob. 'I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can't remember if we actually had penetration,' Streisand admitted. 'I swear to God, I can't. There are certain things I block out.' Despite Streisand's claim that she has no idea if she properly met Beatty's little Dick Tracy, it seems like the two have had plenty of time to clear up that detail being that Streisand also told the magazine they're 'still friends.' 'Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,' the 'Don't Rain on my Parade' singer said. 'So we're still friends. I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.' In her memoir, The Way We Were star wrote about her first impression of Beatty, saying that he was 'tall with movie-star looks, and women were already falling at his feet,' per People. And if that sounds like a pretty accurate description of any f-boy, it likely explains why Streisand was so flippant toward Playboy in 1977 when the magazine asked her if she and Beatty were ever 'romantically linked.' 'I said blithely, 'One of my flings,'' Streisand wrote in her book of the Playboy interview, per the New York Post. 'I was just tossing off a reply, playing the role of a jaded woman of the world.'
Perth Now
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Barbra Streisand duets with Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey and more on new album
Barbra Streisand has duetted with Bob Dylan, Sir Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey and more on a starry new album. The music legend and Hollywood star - whose hits include 'The Way We Were', 'Guilty', 'Papa, Can You Hear Me' and 'Evergreen' - has unveiled her new LP 'The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two', which is due for release on June 27, 2025, and features music's biggest stars. It will act as a follow-up to 2014's 'Partners' album. Powerhouses Streisand, Ariana and Mariah form a supergroup on 'One Heart, One Voice'. Streisand also teams up with James Taylor, Sting, Hozier, Sam Smith, Seal and Josh Groban, plus Tim McGraw, and Laufey on the 11-track collection. The first track to be released is 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' with 'Too Sweet' hitmaker Hozier. The 1957 folk song was originally penned by Ewan MacColl and made famous by the late Roberta Flack. Hozier said: 'Barbra Streisand is one of the most enduring and iconic vocalists of our time, and somebody who defined an era with the sheer force of her voice, her talent, charisma and vision. To be asked to join her on a duet was a huge honour and came as a wonderful and welcome surprise. Ewan MacColl's 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', made famous by the stunning Roberta Flack recording, has always mystified me. It is, to me, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Like so many, I was deeply saddened to hear of her recent passing. Along with the honour I have to sing on this record with Barbra, I hope this duet offers something of a gesture to Roberta Flack's incredible legacy.' Streisand commented: 'I've always loved singing duets with gifted artists. They inspire me in unique and different ways…and make our time in the studio a joy! My new album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two, gave me the chance to work and play with some of my old friends, label mates, and new artists too. I admire all of them… and I hope that you'll enjoy listening to our collaborations as much as I enjoyed recording with all of my wonderful partners.' With Beatles legend McCartney, Streisand covers his 2012 solo song 'My Valentine' and Dylan appears on 'The Very Thought Of You', the jazz standard covered by the likes of Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, and Tony Bennett. Streisand and her special guests are accompanied by orchestrations by William Ross and David Campbell, recorded at The Streisand Scoring Stage in Culver City, California and with the venerable London Symphony Orchestra at London's Abbey Road Studios. The 'A Star Is Born' star has previously recorded duets with Neil Diamond, Barry Gibb, Kris Kristofferson, Donna Summer, Bryan Adams, and Celine Dion. The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two tracklisting: 1. THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE with Hozier 2. MY VALENTINE with Paul McCartney 3. TO LOSE YOU AGAIN with Sam Smith 4. THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU with Bob Dylan 5. LETTER TO MY 13 YEAR OLD SELF with Laufey 6. ONE HEART, ONE VOICE with Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande 7. I LOVE US with Tim McGraw 8. SECRET O' LIFE with James Taylor 9. FRAGILE with Sting 10. WHERE DO I GO FROM YOU? with Josh Groban 11. LOVE WILL SURVIVE with Seal
Chicago Tribune
07-02-2025
- Automotive
- Chicago Tribune
The Way We Were: If you can't imagine buying a car in downtown Naperville, check out this photo
You'll have to use your imagination for this week's The Way We Were photo because this is a picture of Clyde C. Netzley Chrysler Plymouth dealership at 22 E. Chicago Ave. as it looked in the 1970s. It was at the southeast corner of Chicago Avenue and Washington Street, where you'll find the Rosebud restaurant today. Small towns, unlike the suburbs we know today, would often have one or more car dealerships on their downtown main streets, right alongside the locally-owned drug stores, soda shops, appliance/furniture retailers and other small businesses. Netzley's was a mainstay from 1921 to 1981, one of the first places in town that not only sold cars but repaired them. (Naperville Heritage Society)
