OT Aretha Franklin Has Died

[Soliel]

She was a soul archon RIP

 

[DarrylS]

I grew up with her and the whole Motown thing, not a bad thing I can think of about Aretha.. she had a difficult early life and became an icon and role model for many to follow...

When I think about her and her music I smile.. RIP Aretha that band in heaven is getting pretty good.

 

[DarrylS]

She was a pain in the ass up in Motown and nobody could work with her. No hits.

As in life, strange things occur and Franklin migrated to Muscls Shoals Alabama. Maybe those damn racists could do something with her. Well, yes. 5 White guys were her band and Aretha released her first big hit. Many more were to follow and the legend of Muscle Shoals was born. Muscle Shoals was revered as "Hitsville" and if you lucky enough to get in you were money in the bank.
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You never miss a f...ing beat do you, your warped view of the world permeates just about every post you make..

Another effort of revisionist history, the facts are that many people could not understand her music with was laced with gospel influence, Atlantic sent her to Muscle Shoals so they could work with her, there she did some very good work.. whether or not it was due to her time at Muscle Shoals o she became a musical star and a civil rights icon as well...

If you step away from your whitewashed view of how the world works, she released RESPECT in 1967 and for many that became an anthem not only for civil rights but for feminists as well.. It was one of the songs that galvanized several movements. It was not a coquettish version asking her man to let her be an equal, it was a loud forceful demand.. something quite different than mainstream america was used to. "Wear your hair just for him, do the things he wanted to do"... on and on..

Then there is the whole thing about how music was distributed and played and the difficulties facing a black artist.. oh never mind, the truth usually falls on deaf ears.

Do not minimize what she did or how she did it, the fact remains she did it and did it better than most..

 

[Triumph]

You never miss a f...ing beat do you, your warped view of the world permeates just about every post you make..

Another effort of revisionist history, the facts are that many people could not understand her music with was laced with gospel influence, Atlantic sent her to Muscle Shoals so they could work with her, there she did some very good work.. whether or not it was due to her time at Muscle Shoals o she became a musical star and a civil rights icon as well...

If you step away from your whitewashed view of how the world works, she released RESPECT in 1967 and for many that became an anthem not only for civil rights but for feminists as well.. It was one of the songs that galvanized several movements. It was not a coquettish version asking her man to let her be an equal, it was a loud forceful demand.. something quite different than mainstream america was used to. "Wear your hair just for him, do the things he wanted to do"... on and on..

Then there is the whole thing about how music was distributed and played and the difficulties facing a black artist.. oh never mind, the truth usually falls on deaf ears.

Do not minimize what she did or how she did it, the fact remains she did it and did it better than most..

Moron

Everything that I wrote was from a documentary about Muscle Shoals. Aretha Franklin found her Queen of Soul groove at Muscle Shoals and everything is FACT. Franklin left Motown because she was difficult to work with. There are numerous videos on Youtube from people who were there - unlike you.

It never fails that some idiot finds racism where there is none. It bothers you because 5 WHITE guys gelled with Franklin to belt out hits and make her an Icon. What happened at Muscle Shoals, ALABAMA is fact and music history. No identity SJW like you will ever change the truth.

 

[Triumph]

I grew up with her and the whole Motown thing.

You were neighbors.

Thats awesome. Never knew that you even lived in Detroit.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

You never miss a f...ing beat do you, your warped view of the world permeates just about every post you make..

Another effort of revisionist history, the facts are that many people could not understand her music with was laced with gospel influence, Atlantic sent her to Muscle Shoals so they could work with her, there she did some very good work.. whether or not it was due to her time at Muscle Shoals o she became a musical star and a civil rights icon as well...

If you step away from your whitewashed view of how the world works, she released RESPECT in 1967 and for many that became an anthem not only for civil rights but for feminists as well.. It was one of the songs that galvanized several movements. It was not a coquettish version asking her man to let her be an equal, it was a loud forceful demand.. something quite different than mainstream america was used to. "Wear your hair just for him, do the things he wanted to do"... on and on..

Then there is the whole thing about how music was distributed and played and the difficulties facing a black artist.. oh never mind, the truth usually falls on deaf ears.

Do not minimize what she did or how she did it, the fact remains she did it and did it better than most..

What he points out is not negative, just factual.

Aretha was a Gospel singer. Of course it just so happened she could - and did - sing any style of music and turn it into gold. She's #1.

Albert Einstein was diagnosed as being mentally ******ed when he was four. It's ridiculous, but it's true.

All the other kids in the Bantams laughed when the little 10-year old kid from Parry Sound mumbled "Bobby Orr, defense" when they introduced themselves.

They stopped laughing once the puck was dropped.

 

[Jackson 2]

If you'd like to hear a great song, search for and listen to a "Jumpin' Jack" duet with Aretha and Keith Richards. If it doesn't make you move, you're likely dead.

 

[Triumph]

In January 1967 a young singer named Aretha Franklin arrived in the small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals, her career hanging in the balance. At the age of 25 Franklin was already a music veteran. She had recorded nine albums, none of which had properly captured the fiery, transcendent intensity of her voice or the rapt, prayerful beauty of her piano playing. But over the course of just a few hours, in a studio where she had never worked before, with musicians whom she had met for the first time that day, Franklin would record not only the most important song in her career but one of the greatest songs in the history of pop music, I Never Loved...

Inside Muscle Shoals, the legendary studio that gave Aretha Franklin her breakthrough hit