translated from Spanish: Respect the success of Aretha Franklin, who became a feminist and political manifesto

“R – E – S – P – E – C – T!” More than a simple version of the song by Otis Redding, the energetic version of “Respect”, recorded in 1967 by Aretha Franklin became a feminist and political anthem to this title, and devoted himself to his interpreter as the new Queen of Soul, with just 25 years.
Rolling Stone magazine crowned this international success as the fifth best song “of all time” in a list of successes in 2004 in which Aretha Franklin appeared behind Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, and Marvin Gaye.
“Respect” was written and recorded by Otis Redding in 1965, but was the Aretha Franklin version, with its contagious saying, that pretended to posterity.
In the version of Redding, a man demands the respect of their spouse, a respect that estimated owes because it is he who provides for his family. But Franklin, in his version, recorded on the day of Valentine from 1967 in New York, eliminates the traditional scheme, by placing the words in the mouth of a strong and dynamic woman.
‘A new soul’ singer originally from Detroit retained the verses but added a dynamic choir, at the hands of her sisters Carolyn and Erma, and some expressions, such as that “Sock it to me” something provocative, which can be translated as “show me what you’re able to”.
And he emphasized that “R-E-S-P-E-C-T”, which does not seem to ask but demand.
“For Otis respect had a traditional connotation,” said the producer of Aretha Franklin, Jerry Wexler, in his autobiography, cited by Rolling Stone magazine. “The fervor in the voice of Aretha demanded that respect.”
“Not only changed some words or point of view, also gave new soul”, told AFP the American musicologist Victoria Malawey, Professor at Macalester College in Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
Aretha Franklin changed his song “radically so that up to say that he rewrote it”, said this specialist of pop music.
The title was released on his album “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You”, the first with Atlantic Records, and became a feminist anthem. But it also gave a voice -! And what a voice! -Blacks in the struggle for their rights in the Decade of the 60’s in the United States.
At the appointed time “Respect” spanned the years and was taken up by various movements of claim, said Victoria Malawey. “It’s something that goes beyond text or melody, which transports us really, that he gave his power to the song and made to last so long.”
“It was what was needed at that time”, he summed up the own Aretha Franklin, quoted by the French magazine Elle, about this song that his departure was for two weeks among the best sales in 2016.
This success took the first two of his 18 Grammy Awards. And although it is an artist with travel, “Respect” ‘n’ B. became the new Queen of Soul and r also marked the beginning of his international career.
This classic of American music has appeared in about thirty films, such as “Platoon” and “Blues Brothers” and “Forrest Gump”. Several artists, including Stevie Wonder, made their own versions.
Bad weather, Otis Redding made good face. A “good friend” “took it away”, said with a smile about this song on stage in a Festival of Monterrey. A few months later, in December 1967, he died in a plane crash.

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