Search - Aretha Franklin :: So Damn Happy

I will remember the way it used to be

C. Ralston | canada | 03/19/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I have loved Aretha Franklin since the sixties, and have purchased anything she put out. She had some clunkers, but that voice could somehow transcend weak songs and production, but this cd and the Rose I parted with. No one can take away her greatness, and her place in music history. And if I was to be stranded on a desert island, I would grab my Aretha box set first. Some voices are fragile, a gift from the angels, and when it goes it goes. Some voices improve with time, deepen, thicken, have a life-worn texture. Now is the time for Aretha to know her vocal limitations and give us some music with depth. Take a page out of the Betty Lavette songbook. Stop trying to be current, and give us some soul. You want some great Aretha, get Rare and Unreleased."

Goodies & badies (imo)

Gino Monsieur | Zwijndrecht, n/a Belgien | 06/21/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I think that some producers need to calm her down or better said, don't push her so hard to reach those very high keys (anymore). Give her songs she can DO ! She's still a fantastic singer but please ACCEPT her limitations, these days. She's 61 for God sake. Why is it a shame that she can't do it anymore just like she sang in the past ? She still can sing like nobody else but with some restrictions.



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