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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 425473" data-attributes="member: 22">No sooner did I read this:than I happened to read this:The entire idea of a new Barbra Streisand duets album in 2025 isn’t the easiest thing to wrap your head around, but the strangest thing about it was almost certainly the inclusion of a song with Bobby D, whose voice simply isn’t built to share space with Babs’. Streisand feels the same way. Last week, Streisand told The New York Times that Dylan sent her flowers with a card back in the ’70s: “In childish handwriting in different-color crayons, he wrote ‘Would you sing with me?’ I thought, ‘What the hell am I going to sing with Bob Dylan?&#039;”Streisand says she warmed to the idea when she learned that Dylan wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for her, and she noticed when he recorded three albums of standards. In a Billboard interview, Streisand says how she considered the idea of singing with Dylan:&#039;The interesting thing is that I saw it as an acting piece. It’s two different people, how they were feeling each other out: what kind of emotions are going on when two people have known of each other for such a long time but never met. It was wonderful to work with him, actually. I did my part earlier in the day, and it worked out perfectly with his. I’m ever the director. And he wanted direction, which was so lovely: “What do you think? What do you want?” He just was so open to trying this or trying that. It was really easy.&#039;The two of them came together on a version of the old standard “The Very Thought Of You,” and their version is awfully soft and tender. It’s much less jarring than what I guess I was expecting.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.stereogum.com/2313275/bob-dylan-duets-with-barbra-streisand-announces-art-book-plays-the-times-they-are-a-changin-for-the-first-time-in-16-years/news/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 425473, member: 22"] No sooner did I read this: than I happened to read this: [I]The entire idea of a new Barbra Streisand duets album in 2025 isn’t the easiest thing to wrap your head around, but the strangest thing about it was almost certainly the inclusion of a song with Bobby D, whose voice simply isn’t built to share space with Babs’. Streisand feels the same way. Last week, Streisand told The New York Times that Dylan sent her flowers with a card back in the ’70s: “In childish handwriting in different-color crayons, he wrote ‘Would you sing with me?’ I thought, ‘What the hell am I going to sing with Bob Dylan?'” Streisand says she warmed to the idea when she learned that Dylan wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for her, and she noticed when he recorded three albums of standards. In a Billboard interview, Streisand says how she considered the idea of singing with Dylan: 'The interesting thing is that I saw it as an acting piece. It’s two different people, how they were feeling each other out: what kind of emotions are going on when two people have known of each other for such a long time but never met. It was wonderful to work with him, actually. I did my part earlier in the day, and it worked out perfectly with his. I’m ever the director. And he wanted direction, which was so lovely: “What do you think? What do you want?” He just was so open to trying this or trying that. It was really easy.' The two of them came together on a version of the old standard “The Very Thought Of You,” and their version is awfully soft and tender. It’s much less jarring than what I guess I was expecting.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stereogum.com/2313275/bob-dylan-duets-with-barbra-streisand-announces-art-book-plays-the-times-they-are-a-changin-for-the-first-time-in-16-years/news/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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