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Track List
01) What's on My Mind
02) Don't Lie to Me
03) Imagine / What a Wonderful World
04) Walls
05) Lady Liberty
06) What the World Needs Now
07) Better Angels
08) Love's Never Wrong
09) The Rain Will Fall
10) Take Care of This House
11) Happy Days Are Here Again
01) What's on My Mind
02) Don't Lie to Me
03) Imagine / What a Wonderful World
04) Walls
05) Lady Liberty
06) What the World Needs Now
07) Better Angels
08) Love's Never Wrong
09) The Rain Will Fall
10) Take Care of This House
11) Happy Days Are Here Again
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2018
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Having established her own philanthropic foundation in 1986, Barbra Streisand has long been an outspoken proponent for the protection of the environment, world peace, civil rights, and women's rights. She brings these passions to bear on her sophisticated 2018 studio album Walls. While Walls is certainly borne out of Streisand's own deeply heartfelt feelings regarding the state of the world and the seemingly divisive nature of American politics circa 2018, it's also a lushly produced and ruminative album that allows the multi-Grammy-winning singer to strike a pleasingly sincere tone with a broad appeal. Executive-produced by Streisand and Jay Landers, along with production and songwriting pros including Carole Bayer Sager, Walter Afanasieff, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and others, Walls features a mix of newly penned originals and thoughtfully curated covers that evokes the adult-contemporary pop she championed throughout the '70s and '80s. Explicitly, the orchestral title-track, delivered with Broadway-level drama by Streisand, is a plea for bridging our personal differences rather than walling ourselves off. It's a sweeping, movie-perfect song, and showcases how Streisand's highly resonant voice has only grown richer with age. Several other songs, including the classical guitar-accented "What's on My Mind" and the hypnotic, piano-driven "Don't Lie to Me," are earnest meditations on the need for kindness, empathy, and honesty in our society. Elsewhere, she and writer/producer Desmond Child weave lines from Emma Lazarus' 1883 Statue of Liberty sonnet "The New Colossus" into their sweeping ballad "Lady Liberty." Similarly, with the Sager, Landers, and Jonas Myrin co-write "Better Angels," Streisand draws directly upon President Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inaugural address singing "We are not enemies, there is no good in that." Streisand's cover choices also evoke a thoughtful timeliness as she pairs with Michael McDonald and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds for Burt Bacharach and Hal David's Vietnam-era classic "What the World Needs Now." Equally timely is her gorgeously melancholy reading of the standard "Happy Days Are Here Again." There's both a sadness and warmth to Streisand's performances on Walls that befits the album's subject matter and speaks to her own ability to communicate to, and often for, her audience.
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The latest conscript in the culture war against the current White House incumbent is, wonderfully, Barbra Streisand. Rushing over the top with all the fearlessness of her 76 years, she has written a number of remarkable meditations on the gammon corpse quivering in the Oval Office and his debased version of the American dream.
Every inch of Streisand’s majestic charisma is sunk into every syllable of this richly orchestrated comeback set. Occasionally, as with TV’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the glossy aesthetic threatens to neuter the horrors depicted. Yet Streisand’s powerful delivery of simple, pointed lyrics (“Facts are fake and friends are foes / And how the story ends nobody knows”) convinces, even on the gamiest heart-tuggers. Most sensibly, the American president’s name is never uttered, as if not to further poison the well.
The finale doesn’t work, with a bizarrely stentorian, semi-ironic Happy Days Are Here Again collapsing into hokey lip-wobbling. But topical, passionate work like this is exactly what great artists should create. In another world, maybe Columbia are releasing Springsteen’s Walls and Streisand’s live album On Broadway, rather than the other way round. But this world, awful as it sometimes is, will do just fine.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/11/barbra-streisand-walls-review-searing-comeback-anti-trump
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Having established her own philanthropic foundation in 1986, Barbra Streisand has long been an outspoken proponent for the protection of the environment, world peace, civil rights, and women's rights. She brings these passions to bear on her sophisticated 2018 studio album Walls. While Walls is certainly borne out of Streisand's own deeply heartfelt feelings regarding the state of the world and the seemingly divisive nature of American politics circa 2018, it's also a lushly produced and ruminative album that allows the multi-Grammy-winning singer to strike a pleasingly sincere tone with a broad appeal. Executive-produced by Streisand and Jay Landers, along with production and songwriting pros including Carole Bayer Sager, Walter Afanasieff, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and others, Walls features a mix of newly penned originals and thoughtfully curated covers that evokes the adult-contemporary pop she championed throughout the '70s and '80s. Explicitly, the orchestral title-track, delivered with Broadway-level drama by Streisand, is a plea for bridging our personal differences rather than walling ourselves off. It's a sweeping, movie-perfect song, and showcases how Streisand's highly resonant voice has only grown richer with age. Several other songs, including the classical guitar-accented "What's on My Mind" and the hypnotic, piano-driven "Don't Lie to Me," are earnest meditations on the need for kindness, empathy, and honesty in our society. Elsewhere, she and writer/producer Desmond Child weave lines from Emma Lazarus' 1883 Statue of Liberty sonnet "The New Colossus" into their sweeping ballad "Lady Liberty." Similarly, with the Sager, Landers, and Jonas Myrin co-write "Better Angels," Streisand draws directly upon President Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inaugural address singing "We are not enemies, there is no good in that." Streisand's cover choices also evoke a thoughtful timeliness as she pairs with Michael McDonald and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds for Burt Bacharach and Hal David's Vietnam-era classic "What the World Needs Now." Equally timely is her gorgeously melancholy reading of the standard "Happy Days Are Here Again." There's both a sadness and warmth to Streisand's performances on Walls that befits the album's subject matter and speaks to her own ability to communicate to, and often for, her audience.
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The latest conscript in the culture war against the current White House incumbent is, wonderfully, Barbra Streisand. Rushing over the top with all the fearlessness of her 76 years, she has written a number of remarkable meditations on the gammon corpse quivering in the Oval Office and his debased version of the American dream.
Every inch of Streisand’s majestic charisma is sunk into every syllable of this richly orchestrated comeback set. Occasionally, as with TV’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the glossy aesthetic threatens to neuter the horrors depicted. Yet Streisand’s powerful delivery of simple, pointed lyrics (“Facts are fake and friends are foes / And how the story ends nobody knows”) convinces, even on the gamiest heart-tuggers. Most sensibly, the American president’s name is never uttered, as if not to further poison the well.
The finale doesn’t work, with a bizarrely stentorian, semi-ironic Happy Days Are Here Again collapsing into hokey lip-wobbling. But topical, passionate work like this is exactly what great artists should create. In another world, maybe Columbia are releasing Springsteen’s Walls and Streisand’s live album On Broadway, rather than the other way round. But this world, awful as it sometimes is, will do just fine.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/11/barbra-streisand-walls-review-searing-comeback-anti-trump
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