Why Do People Want to Emulate Barbra Streisand?

Every year, some potentially pudgy Californian announces on American Idol that she wants to emulate Barbra Streisand. Sometimes, she's talented. Sometimes she's not. But why on earth would anyone want to emulate Barbra Streisand? None of the male singers announce they want to be just like Michael Bolton.

Let's recap the thinking here - I want to be an obnoxious loudmouth who uses my ill-gotten celebrity, dubiously earned in the culturally vacuous late-70's/early-80's, to make sure everyone knows how ignorant I am. Is this really every young girl's dream?

If only Clinton hadn't done her, she would have disappeared a decade ago.