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Sep 19, 2014Most of the dozen tracks on Partners-- which features duet partners such as Michael Bublé, Andrea Bocelli and the singer’s son, Jason Gould--offer no such vantage [of a whole other way of looking at [a] song].... Yet there is strong work here--four songs that live up to the singer's stated ambition.
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Sep 16, 2014Throughout, Streisand’s voice sound more robust than it has for some time, especially compared to her live performance last year in Brooklyn. But she has a tendency to oversing in an attempt to engage with her guests.
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Sep 15, 2014Ultimately, Partners works as guided tour down Streisand's memory lane, and with her resonant voice still in supple shape, any excuse to hear her sing is a welcome invitation.
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Sep 15, 2014The choppy calls and responses between Ms. Streisand and her partners, however, lack conversational or narrative flow, and you have an uncomfortable sense that the parts were spliced together after the fact.
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Sep 15, 2014This record falls into all the icky, celebrity duet traps.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 36
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Mixed: 6 out of 36
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Negative: 14 out of 36
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Sep 16, 2014
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Dec 31, 2022Barbra spoils a perfectly fine album with oversinging her duet partners just to make sure she remains on top all of the time.
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Jan 3, 2022