Aretha Franklin: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''Heeeeey! What you want,''

 

 

She started her career in the early-[[The Sixties|1960s]]. Her breakout hit was "Respect" (1965), a song originally written and recorded by [[Otis Redding]]. This song helped define her persona: since it was originally written for a guy, its narrator is naturally more assertive than most female singers were before.

Her other hits include "Think" ([[Refrain From Assuming|erroneously known as]] "Freedom"), "Chain of Fools", and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Some of her many achievements include singing at Martin Luther King's funeral, becoming the first woman inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, standing in for Luciano Pavarotti at the 1998 Grammys with an improvised but showstopping operatic number, and singing at [[Barack Obama]]'s inauguration ceremony in a [[Nice Hat|hat]] that took on a [[Memetic Mutation|life of its own]] and is now kept at the Smithsonian. She has placed at #1 on both [[VH-1]]'s Top 100 Women of Rock n Roll and ''Rolling Stone'''s Top 100 Singers of All Time.

 

 

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* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: Hell yeah!

* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: "Respect." It would be "Changes the Gender" if the song had any gendered words in it. As it is, the sentiments of "Respect" do sound different from a woman than they would from a man, and sounded even more different when the song came out.

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* [[Nice Hat]]: The hat she wore at [[Barack Obama]]'s inauguration.

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: If her appearance in ''The Blues Brothers'' proves nothing else, ''do not mess with her'', [[Spoof Aesop|or she will deliver a showstopping musical number to show you what's what]].

 

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[[Category:The Sixties]]

[[Category:The Fifties]]

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