143. Barbra Streisand - Isn't This Better (Live 2016)

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.

Awards: Ten Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, Nine Golden Globe Awards, Five Emmy Awards; Four Peabody Awards, Two Academy Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the 4th Recipient of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award in 2023.

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Lyrics

As you may know, in the story of Funny Girl, uh
Nicky leaves Fanny, right, at the end of Funny Girl
And in Funny Lady, she meets this guy called Billy Rose
A theatrical kind of empresario of sorts
He's funny, brash, kinda like Fanny herself
And in her own words, Fanny said she was in love, madly in love with Nick
But she was just in like, with, uh, Billy Rose, you know?
And out of loneliness, trying to forget the elegant Nicky Arnstein
She marries Billy anyway, and this scene, um
Where the song comes from, is on a train, and it's their honeymoon
He leaves the compartment for a moment
And she's trying to convince herself that she's made the right decision
I loved a man
Truly I did (you must be big fans)
When he would touch me, I'd act like a love-hungry kid
Isn't this better?
He's somebody nice, somebody new
Someone who lets me react as I normally do
Isn't this better?
Better
Passion is fine, but passion burns fast
Passion's design seems never to last
Better a match, better a blend
Who needs a lover? I need a friend
And now I am calm, safe and serene
Heartache and hurt are no longer a part of the scene
Isn't this better?
The way it should be
Better for him
And also much better for me

"Her name is Barbra Streisand. She is 20 years old, she has a three-octave promiscuity of range, she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan. She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella, or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker ... and only Barbra Streisand can turn 'Cry Me a River' into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci. When Streisand cries you a river, you got a river, Sam ... and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers." — Syndicated columnist Robert Ruark, on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel.

 

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