Streisand's Guilty Pleasures

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Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

Barbra Streisand. So....what about her voice irks you? Is it that she can actually sing? I think people today (not just people under 25 or 30) have gotten so used to lousy, groaning, tuneless vocals that they wouldn't appreciate a Streisand, or a Doris Day, or a Judy Garland or even an Ann Wilson if their ass was bitten by them. It's time to bring back voices in key. Voices that don't sound like a full body dry heave set to music!

She is on key, but it is scientific, sterile, and to my ears utterly emotionless and phony. But, people love her. Especially promoters. It is her, and Eagles, after all, who originated sky high ticket prices to concerts. I just pity the people who have to work for her. All of the people I have known who did, and there are many, say they would rather change careers or starve than be in the same zip code as her ever again. I prefer an inferior technical artist to one who treats people like garbage. Since I work in the business, I can't support performers who are monstrously cruel to my peers. Call me silly.

Nonetheless, people worship her. I don't get it. But my gay card was revoked while I was in high school.