Otis Redding’s song “Respect” asks a woman to treat him with respect. How did Aretha Franklin make this song her own?
A) by turning it into a demand for equality and justice from a woman’s point of view
B) by converting it to a completely different musical genre
C) by performing it as a powerful spoken-word interlude
D) by using it to express a sense of personal entitlement for the life she didn’t have
A) by turning it into a demand for equality and justice from a woman’s point of view.
Aretha Franklin made “Respect” her own by infusing it with a strong message of female empowerment and demanding equality. Her rendition transformed it from a plea into a commanding assertion of a woman’s rights, thus resonating deeply with the feminist movement of the time.