Aretha Franklin is taken up by London’s Changing of the Guards
mainFame at last.
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A rather lugubrious take of R.E.S.P.E.C.T., I’m afraid.
On a related note, I saw last week in France a (white) French impersonatress of Amy Winehouse, songs, singing style, and all (in perfect singing English too) right down to the makeup and gestures.
The irony is that Amy Winehouse is herself an avowed imitator of Black R&B singers.
What did that French post-modernist social theorist Baudrillard predict?
Simulacra of simulacra.
My point is, next, there will be a French marching band imitating the British guards imitating Aretha Franklin.
C’est la vie.
At least the clip is of the bridge, which Franklin added to Redding’s song.
The best argument against crossover I ever saw.
You know, I don’t think crossover was the point. Perhaps a little more like respect.
It’s the thought that counts.
Someone had to scratch that out real fast.
I presume that isn’t from their regular repertoire.
Yaaaaawn.
Wonder what they’ll play for you when your time comes. Maybe 4′ 33″.
With a little bit of luck, absolutely.
Sue – yaaaawn away. That is exactly what I do when I read your second rate trolling.
A second rate pop diva dies and the politically correct world uses this is a totemic moment. I’m sure she lived the good life and good luck to her but that’s as far as it goes for me. Her songs charmed some, I’m sure, but I go for more sophisticated fare myself.
she might not be your cup of tea, but she had millions of fans in her day. The reason people celebrate her now is not only for her art, but what she did with the money that she earned- bankroll the US Civil Rights Movement. Without Aretha Franklin, likely Civil Rights in the USA would have taken much longer to come to fruition.
And who would qualify as Sue’s first-rate pop diva? Perhaps Anita Bryant?
Sue has the complete 8 track tapes of John Ashcroft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y
Sue’s a groupie of The Singing Senators, rumor has it she regularly participates in late night bible study group sessions with the four men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaS9Goj4Rzs
Sue, what are you trying to achieve with your moronic comments?
“but I go for more sophisticated fare myself.”
You voted for cretin donald and continue to support him. Obviously, you don’t know what the word “sophisticated” means…
You remind me of your fellow trumpanzee -doug- who says that Martha Argerich is a second-rate pianist.
Gotta love it: deplorables who talk about sophistication in music… Too funny!
My impression is that Sue, as much as she would have loved to have voted for Trump, lives in a gated community at an undisclosed location in Australia, safe from marauding Germans, Russians, South Africans, liberals, and darkies.