“It’s too sweet,” she said, her Brooklyn accent cutting through the studio’s reverent hush.
“It’s romantic,” Mike countered. “It’s a torch song.” the barbra streisand album 1963
Barbara had not simply sung an album. She had built a door. And on the other side of it, she was already running toward the rest of her life—unapologetic, unstoppable, and only just beginning. “It’s too sweet,” she said, her Brooklyn accent
Columbia Records had signed her after a legendary night at the Bon Soir nightclub, but they wanted an album of standards: pretty, polite, predictable. They wanted her to sound like the other girls. Barbara wanted to sound like her . “It’s too sweet