Respect

Audiomack Search for artists, songs, albums! cloyd wilson Profile Edit Profile Creator Dashboard Upload Contact Us Log out Switch Account NOTIFICATIONS shakirarayana14 favorited I Got That $demons are real$ gabbyrobinson favorited Tired view reupped Please Me view favorited Please Me Bre0nna playlisted Like I'm Gonna Lose You View all notifications Upload BROWSE Home Trending Top Songs Top Albums Playlists Accounts to Follow Recently Added audiomack.world MY LIBRARY Feed Favorites Playlists Uploads Legal & DMCA Privacy Policy Terms of Service Media Kit Style Guide Support Business Inquiries About Wordpress Blog Aretha Franklin Respect 6 0 0 Embed Schedule Share Queue Next Queue End Aretha Franklin’s signature song was a groundbreaking female empowerment anthem of the late 1960s. Originally a minor hit by Otis Redding in 1965, Aretha’s “Respect” was given a new arrangement and new lyrics about a woman boldly demanding the respect of her man. The song hit #1 on Billboard’s pop chart for 2 weeks in the summer of 1967, causing Rolling Stone to remark “Aretha Franklin has shot out of nowhere and become Lady Soul.” Otis Redding’s original had a significantly different storyline: it’s sung from the perspective of a hard-working man demanding “respect” (a euphemism for sex) from his woman. Engineer Tom Dowd—who worked on both Redding’s version and Aretha’s—suggested covering the song, and created a new arrangement. Aretha and her sisters rewrote the lyrics, including the song’s memorable breakdown: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care, TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me “Respect” appeared on Aretha’s 11th album I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, her first for Atlantic Records. Its lyrics popularized several phrases, including “taking care of business” and “propers” (which later became “props,”