If someone were to tell you that Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is about Barbra Streisand, you would think they were lying to you. But they aren’t.
Yesterday, when the actress was on Howard Stern’s radio show to talk about her memoir My Name Is Barbra, he asked her if that was true. And she told him it is. Then she explained how it happened.
The singer was being interviewed by Barbara Walters, and Barbra told Barbara that her husband, James Brolin, said to her after sex that he didn’t want to fall asleep because then he would miss her.
Well, songwriter Diane Warren was listening to that interview, and it inspired her to write that song. So, every time Steven Tyler sings that song, he is singing about Babs. Kind of a boner killer, isn’t it?
