Barbra Streisand published today new album, ‘The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two’, the second volume of its Duesto Discs series started with ‘Partners’ (2014), 11 years ago. If, in that first installment, names such as Bryan Adams, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel or even Elvis Presley, the cast of “The Secret of Life” are again, is again an order and includes from contemporary superstars such as Sam Smith or Laufey to legends like Bob Dylan or Paul McCartney.
The repertoire, focused on classic pop and jazz ballads, includes original versions and themes. One of those who have been written for the occasion – supposedly – is ‘One Heart, One Voice’, which unites Barbra no less than with Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey.
The morbid of listening to Mariah and Ariana together, which has been compared so much since the beginning of the race of Grande, both were satisfied last year joining in the remix of ‘Yes, and?’. Now, Barbra makes them live in a much more classic, orchestral and disney context that reminds, above all, to the first stage of Mariah Carey, that of the first ninety.
Barbra, Ariana and Mariah Vocal lines are distributed in this melosa ballad that sounds wrapped by a string orchestra and uses the typical production tricks “Brilli Brilli” decades ago. The epic and coral form of ‘One Heart, One Voice’ and his message about the female tenderness, represented by a heart that never stops beating, remembers that of other historical collaborations of pop such as ‘When You Believe’ by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey herself.
And, if ‘One Heart, One Voice’ sounds to another era is because its authors have been in the industry for a long time: Charlie Midnight wrote a theme in the soundtrack of ‘The bodyguard’ (1992), Walter Afanasieff of course is co-author of several successes of Carey, such as ‘Hero’ (1993), and Jay Landers works with Streisand eighty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efitk-nxtd8
