In fact, Streisand pored over a handful of recordings for months and, once confirming a final track list, she began to refine her selection until meeting her own high standards. Streisand’s powers of self-reflection are still very much front and centre throughout “Release Me 2,” which is far from a thrown-together collection of leftover tracks. Amidst releasing Billboard-topping pop music on soundtracks to movies she starred in - box-office gold such as “The Way We Were” and “A Star Is Born” - she insisted on recording a full-blown album of arias called “Classical Barbra,” covering 16th- and 17th-century opera compositions. In the ’70s, Streisand bucked trends again. Cherry-picking through legendary Broadway standards and dusty cabaret favourites - which called for simpler times from forgotten decades - Streisand veered from the hip counterculture coffee house folk capturing the swingin’ zeitgeist. Streisand first cut her teeth on New York City’s nightclub circuit in the 1960s, armed with the kind of bygone era repertoire from the ’40s and ’50s she revered - material that many young singers wouldn’t dare touch. “God is in the details.”Īs a promising 20-something singer, she was just as specific and strategic when it came to her end goal of being a star.
“They were lying when they said the devil is in the details,” she says of her fascination with minutiae. However extreme Streisand’s fastidiousness may be, she will not be shamed for her intense work ethic.
It’s the same drive that propelled her to have someone spray paint Oprah Winfrey’s microphones off-white - to match her own outfit, naturally - during a 2003 TV appearance, and install carpet in many of the concrete arenas she has performed in, simply for better acoustics. Yet, it is precisely Streisand’s persistent meticulousness, which is written about ad nauseam in almost every article about her, that pushes her to keep supervising every aspect of her legacy.
1 albums in six consecutive decades, and the first woman and youngest person to win an Emmy, Tony, Grammy and Oscar.
After all, she’s the only artist on the planet to achieve No. One would think that with Streisand’s standing, exploring locked away material would be someone else’s job.
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