Barbara Streisand Gets A Coke Thrown At Her!
I am getting a little sick of all the grandstanding and political drama that celebrities feel they are entitled to pile on you when attending a concert or on awards shows. I don’t mind people expressing their opinions but Barbara Streisand takes the cake! I would be pissed if I was at a concert of my favorite artist and they stopped the show to do some lame ass “Mad TV” like parody with a George Bush impersonator.
This situation is much different from that which happened to the Dixie Chicks. Making a statement that shows your political opinion is one thing, but incorporating comedy segments in your concert with a divisive political agenda is lame. Especially if the people have no idea that it is part of the show. And this incident with Barbara is one of many bad interactions with fans that pay upwards of $500 to see her sing.
She has always had her diva moments, and is known to be a perfectionist who rarely hears the word “no”. I am not a fan of hers, it must be a gay generational thingy. I don’t get it, but I understand why people love her and I do realize just how huge she is in the pop culture universe. That said, she really needs to take it down a notch. I appreciate what she is trying to do, but this is the third incident like this on her new tour and she is really starting to split her fan base it seems.
This weekend she had another problem with people heckling her on stage at her concert. As Babs traded political barbs with a George W. Bush imitator, a fan of the songstress who apparently disagreed with her politics pelted her with a beverage. And as her anti-GOP riff ended, another man in the crowd found himself being escorted out of the center as he shouted at Streisand.
Streisand shrugged both incidents off, saying some people would do better to buy her records than come to her shows. Or maybe she should just sing or even warn her fans this show is politically charged. I dunno, this whole mess is just getting a bit silly. She isn’t known for her comedy, so do us a favor and just sing Babs!
October 31st, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Someone threw coke at Barbara Streisand?