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Barbra Streisand Says She's Bored by Her Own Songs
Wed Sep 24, 6:42 AM ET

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Barbra Streisand (news) says she finds listening to her own songs
so boring that it was one of the reasons she gave up public performing three years ago.

Streisand, 61, told Reader's Digest in an interview for its
October edition that once she has recorded an album, she is so
sick of the music that "I never listen to my records for maybe
10 years."

"Really, I just get sick of it. That's why I gave up concerts -- in
addition to having stage fright and the exertion of singing 30
songs a night. It's boring to sing your own songs," she said.

Streisand bid farewell in September 2000 to her sell-out career
as a public performer but she emerged last year to sing at a
Hollywood fund-raiser for her friends in the Democratic Party.

A new album, "The Movie Album" -- her 58th recording -- is
due in stores in October. But Streisand told Reader's Digest she
doubted whether she would embark on any more public
concerts.

"It's fun to create a show and direct it and conceive it -- except
that you have to do it, you have to perform it. I never think of
that until it's too late," she said.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Barbra Streisand Says She's Bored by Her Own Songs

Her and me both, but that doesn't me I want to hear her butcher other people's songs.

She was funny in "What's Up, Doc?", I'll give her that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

wait a minute--Reader's Digest with the exclusive on this?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll say it again:
butterfly is wonderful:
bowie's "life on mars?",

covers of marley,
bill withers...and bonus pic
bra-less and spunky!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad to know there's someone else who finds her own work boring. Maybe she should lurk around ILM like I do to alleviate the boredom.

That, or find a new line of work.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Haikunym is right, "Life on Mars" is fantastic.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

And Alex in NYC is right--she was very funny in "What's Up, Doc?" Actually, that whole movie is really funny. Worth renting.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what's worse?
that she's arrogant enough to find her own music boring or that she's condescending enough to admit to it in Reader's Digest?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I think honesty is refreshing. Maybe she should try playing music that's NOT BORING, then, or at least you know do something that's not completely rote with her own material.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Once upon a time, she was cute and funny and had a great voice. Does she still sing?

"What's Up Doc" was very good. "Funny Girl" was even better, if I recall.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny Girl is genius. So's The Way We Were. And Up the Sandbox is a fun period piece.

I like her voice!

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, her Laura Nyro covers were well-executed. And she's got an interesting degree of separation from Steely Dan -- she recorded a Becker/Fagen composition ("I Mean to Shine") that they wrote when they were trying to make it as Tin Pan Alley shills.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

misty watercolor memories

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

'Guilty' is pretty fab.

― Paul R (paul R), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Guilty rules! (the album, not just the song)

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

I wish I could agree: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/barbra-streisand-guilty.html

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:37 (thirteen years ago)

Streisand did perform a Becker-Fagen song years earlier. Still need to hear her version.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

Marcello I got love for you but if your take on Streisand is that she does not rule the earth then we are enemies forever man sorry

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 10 February 2013 17:50 (thirteen years ago)

I don't think anyone rules the earth. I would have been nicer if it had been The Broadway Album or the Yentl soundtrack, though.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 11 February 2013 09:59 (thirteen years ago)

she's classic for this alone !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCqxXk0th34

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 11 February 2013 12:34 (thirteen years ago)

wow her voice in that is just so flawless

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

Streisand did perform a Becker-Fagen song years earlier. Still need to hear her version.

I have this album (it being in the pile of Streisand albs I inherited from mother-in-law). I have a hard time getting into her stuff tbh but I did pay special attention to that one. it was okay I guess.

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:17 (thirteen years ago)

well, he told Streisand, there are three Bee Gees, so they’ll want 75% of royalties. But they all sound the same, protested Streisand, how much would just one cost?

you're making this up right

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

Holy cow that Bacharach clip! <3<3<3

― Nataly Dawn's echoey swamp sound (Dan Peterson), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:26 (thirteen years ago)

I find Bacharach deeply disturbing for some reason. his material has this underlying neurosis/psychosis to it that I find really creepy, moreso than Spector even.

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:30 (thirteen years ago)

his gift for melody is kinda beyond question

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:40 (thirteen years ago)

that is a sweet clip! they should have made out for an hour after that "close to you."

― tylerw, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:42 (thirteen years ago)

now that I think about it maybe my problems are more with Hal David

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

well, he told Streisand, there are three Bee Gees, so they’ll want 75% of royalties. But they all sound the same, protested Streisand, how much would just one cost?

you're making this up right

No, that's really what happened!

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 09:29 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, I love that video.
It's almost embarrassing to watch them make vocal love in front of the camera !

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:44 (thirteen years ago)

Barry Gibb's story about the tea bag was quite cute tho.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:16 (thirteen years ago)

it's Streisand thinking the Gibb bros all sound the same that is the real headscratcher imo

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:57 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

TPL analyses Babs' peculiar notion of love: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/barbra-streisand-love-songs.html

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 4 July 2013 09:00 (twelve years ago)

Also covered Harry Nilsson

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 July 2013 10:43 (twelve years ago)

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