On 4 Feb 2010 15:46:54 -0800, Twitchell
wrote:
>http://www.celebitchy.com/90449/barbra_streisand_insists_on_more_than_one_line_in_we_are_the_world_remake/
>
>There were 81 artists involved in the remake of “We are The World” to benefit
>Haiti. They brought an army of staff with them to the recording studio. At the
>original recording in 1985, producers were so aware of entitlement issues with
>that group that there was a sign at the entrance that said “Check Your Ego at
>the Door.” One musician that couldn’t leave her ego behind this time was Barbra
>Streisand. EW reports that Streisand was given a key line to sign from the
>chorus but that it wasn’t enough for her and she complained:
>
>"By 6 p.m., the choir had run through the chorus at least a dozen times, and
>took a ten-minute break that turned into 45. On a large screen set up in the
>courtyard, the masses of personalistants and publicists and managers
>lingering during the session (and the civilians who’d gathered on the street
>outside the complex) were treated to a live feed of Streisand recording the same
>line over and over and over and over.
>
>"For the record, it was “There’s a choice we’re making / We’re saving our own
>lives / It’s true we’ll make a better day / Just you and me.” “I didn’t come all
>this way to sing one line,” Babs said at one point; they then allowed her to
>vamp some improvisations over the chorus. Other acts pulled out to sing solo
>lines were Bieber (riffing on the chorus melody in his earnest sy way),
>Groban (“We can’t go on / pretending day by day…” as well as providing what he
>called “the token classical note of the vamp”), and Dion, who was coached by
>Lionel Richie to let her inner gospel diva out.
>
>“You’re honored that they pick you for the hardest part of the song, but at the
>same time it gives you a lot of pressure, so thanks a lot,” she joked. “The
>rhythm was changed a little bit and I so wanted to make it perfect. They played
>the track, and on my right shoulder, Lionel Richie. I was like, ‘I think I’m in
>good hands.’”
. this arrogant stupid bitch. |
