Barbra Streisand sang a career-spanning, behind-the-wheel set on Thursdays Late Late Show, joining host James Corden for his latest installment of Carpool Karaoke.
Corden opened the segment walking out to the curb of his home and spotting a boot on his car tire, prompting him to ring up his mate for a lift.I just finished making an album, and I dont usually put the radio on and hear music, Streisand told the host. Do you really have to hear music? Instead, they worked through her own back catalog, duetting onballads (The Way We Were), disco tunes (No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), fanciful musical numbers (Funny Girls Dont Rain on My Parade) and a pair of tracks from her newly issued LP, Walls (Dont Lie to Meand a mash-up of John Lennons Imagine and Louis Armstrongs What a Wonderful World).
In-between the songs, Streisand joked about her sub-par driving skills (I [once] found myself turning into the up-ramp of a highway, and the cars were coming down, she recalled. I thought, Thats it Im not driving anymore') and blamed her 27-year stage hiatus on intense stage fright (I dont get nervous nervous, but I dont enjoy it, she said. I dont want to disappoint people).
In a hilarious anecdote, she admitted to personally calling Apple CEO Tim Cook to ask if they could fix the way Siri pronounced her name on the iPhone. People still mispronounce my name, she said. Whats a better way to change my name than to speak to Apple, Tim Cook, and say, It would be so helpful is Siri said my name right. Is that possible? I once called Steve Jobs, ya know, when I couldnt figure something out on my computer.