08-17-2018, 06:26 PM
This bothered me more than I thought it would. I love pop music (BTW anything not Classical is pop in musicologist world) and gobble up as much history as I can. From European folk combining with African rhythm to give birth to Blues and Jazz, to Blues and traditional spirituals to become black gospel. Black gospel and Jazz evolved into R&B and Aretha Franklin (originally a Gospel singer) became the Queen of Soul.
Otis Redding wrote "Respect" but Aretha quickly owned it. She owned any song she sang, taking the lyrics and giving them just the right tone and inflection to convey her interpretation (see Johnny Cash's "Hurt" for how hard this is to do). She was a vocal activist for the Civil Rights movement, even supporting the controversial Black Panther movement.
Then fucking Trump saying "She worked for me" because she played a couple of shows at his casinos made me so angry.
R.I.P. Aretha, your name will live long after the orange menace is a toxic footnote in history.
Otis Redding wrote "Respect" but Aretha quickly owned it. She owned any song she sang, taking the lyrics and giving them just the right tone and inflection to convey her interpretation (see Johnny Cash's "Hurt" for how hard this is to do). She was a vocal activist for the Civil Rights movement, even supporting the controversial Black Panther movement.
Then fucking Trump saying "She worked for me" because she played a couple of shows at his casinos made me so angry.
R.I.P. Aretha, your name will live long after the orange menace is a toxic footnote in history.
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