Legendary singer, actress and Hollywood liberal Barbra Streisand stated her worries about President Donald Trump might have ‘subconsciously’ influenced her collection of songs for her new album, a collection of duets with fellow music legends and stars together with Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney titled, “The Secret of Life: Companions, Quantity 2”. Streisand additionally stated she is “horrified” watching TV concerning the world and Trump.
Streisand’s made her remark in an interview with the AP selling the album (excerpt):
Certain, duet success is nothing new to Streisand, who has topped the charts with Neil Diamond on “You Don’t Convey Me Flowers,” and Donna Summer season on “No Extra Tears (Sufficient Is Sufficient),” and a string of albums together with “Duets,” “Companions” and “Encore: Film Companions Sing Broadway.”
However “The Secret of Life: Companions, Quantity 2” is totally different. Streisand stated her worries concerning the world and President Donald Trump’s second administration might have subconsciously contributed to her collection of a number of the album’s extra severe tracks — like Sting’s “Fragile” and her remodeling of “Love Will Survive” from final 12 months’s “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” collection right into a duet with Seal.
“I’d prefer to be happier,” Streisand stated. “However each time I activate the tv — and I’m a glutton for punishment, clearly — I’m fascinated and horrified on the similar time, ?”
At a current dinner with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Streisand stated he described the present state of Washington as “created chaos, corruption and cruelty.”
Streisand added, “I believed, ‘That form of sums him (Trump) up.’”
Streisand attacked Trump in her 2023 memoir, My Identify Is Barbra, reported the Hill (excerpt):
Streisand additionally ripped Trump, saying the forty fifth president “lies as simply as he breathes.”
“I can’t stand being lied to, and I don’t assume the nation must be lied to both,” Streisand wrote, earlier than quipping of Trump, “And I simply couldn’t comprehend how he might inform all these lies with completely no guilt (clearly he’s not Jewish.)”
Streisand expressed shock at Trump’s 2016 White Home win, saying of the New York actual property developer, “You wouldn’t go to a physician who has no {qualifications} or expertise in treating your illness. Why on earth would folks wish to entrust our nation to a narcissist whose lack of expertise, recklessness, and blatant disregard for the reality made him fully unfit to be president?”
“What anxious me was that the youthful technology would emulate this man, who confirmed no kindness or empathy for different human beings,” she stated.
Promo video for the McCartney-Streisand duet on My Valentine:
