Yet I'd still rather listen to Aretha than Britney/Christina/Whichever American Idol clone is popular at the moment.

I'd rather listen to Etta James than Aretha.

I'd rather listen to Bessie Smith than Etta James.

I'd rather listen to Memphis Minnie than Bessie Smith.

El Freak: Yet I'd still rather listen to Aretha than Britney/Christina/Whichever American Idol clone is popular at the moment.
gopher321: I'd rather listen to Etta James than Aretha.
MiamiBlues: I'd rather listen to Bessie Smith than Etta James.
LarrytheBlueOkie: I'd rather listen to Memphis Minnie than Bessie Smith.

I'm hanging with you guys from now on.

First I saw '65' and cant believe it was her age.

THEN I saw '2008' and thought thats what she weighted!


Oh, Aretha, your 'Freeway of Love' has been over-build...

Aretha has talent. A rare commodity in today's commercial music scene.

being a loud, fat, black woman is not a talent. if that is the case, there is whole slew of them in Philly that would have won a grammy by now.

I'd rather listen to Diamanda Galas than Memphis Minnie.

Jesus!!!

I'd rather listen to Ma Rainey than Memphis Minnie.

/am i late?

Yes, she's a big fat crazy lady.

She's also the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

Go ahead, argue with that. Throw your Billie Hollidays at me, your Bessie Smiths, your Otis Reddings, your Sinatras, even your Piafs your Jolsons and your Carusos. Great artists, every one of them. But 'Retha eats 'em all for lunch. A bad pun but a true fact.

Fark_Q: being a loud, fat, black woman is not a talent. if that is the case, there is whole slew of them in Philly that would have won a grammy by now.

Thanks for admitting you know fark all about music. You may now go back to listening to Fergie and Kanye West.

Ribs
Eggs
Sausage
Pie
Eggs
Cake
Tapioca

So she likes eggs... that dame can sing!

You know, I see her picture and think of that voice and all I can see is a beautiful woman.

When did Divine come back as a older black woman?

I keed, loves me some Aretha.

The Dynamite Monkey: Yes, she's a big fat crazy lady.

She's also the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

Go ahead, argue with that. Throw your Billie Hollidays at me, your Bessie Smiths, your Otis Reddings, your Sinatras, even your Piafs your Jolsons and your Carusos. Great artists, every one of them. But 'Retha eats 'em all for lunch. A bad pun but a true fact.

Ella Fitzgerald

El Freak: Fark_Q: being a loud, fat, black woman is not a talent. if that is the case, there is whole slew of them in Philly that would have won a grammy by now.

Thanks for admitting you know fark all about music. You may now go back to listening to Fergie and Kanye West.

Cry harder, @sshole. I don't listen to that crap either. Thanks for being a self centered twat who thinks music peaked in the 60's with fat loud ignorant crooning.

I'd like to give a hearty shout out to those spaghetti straps. You got me how those things aren't either breaking under the strain, or cutting through her shoulders like piano wire.

The Dynamite Monkey: Yes, she's a big fat crazy lady.

She's also the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

Go ahead, argue with that. Throw your Billie Hollidays at me, your Bessie Smiths, your Otis Reddings, your Sinatras, even your Piafs your Jolsons and your Carusos. Great artists, every one of them. But 'Retha eats 'em all for lunch. A bad pun but a true fact.


Are you trying to convince me or yourself? It's ok to admit you don't like that shiat. Really, it is.

her performance on the Grammy's tonight
(stupid as they are)
was great.

vocally, she anchored a couple of dozen people
without batting an eyelash

obviously she's got ella and billie behind her
but she's got it

you know

it

What no Eartha Kitt?

Fido McCokefiend: I'd like to give a hearty shout out to those spaghetti straps. You got me how those things aren't either breaking under the strain, or cutting through her shoulders like piano wire.

im sure she's wearing a strapless bra which is what is really keeping the girls up, not those skinny little straps

Hey, Fark_Q, why don't you tell us how much more you know about music than everyone else. I am convinced that you only listen to music that is unquestionably leaps and bounds ahead of Aretha Franklin, or anyone else for that matter.

I Miss Mah Bucket: Hey, Fark_Q, why don't you tell us how much more you know about music than everyone else. I am convinced that you only listen to music that is unquestionably leaps and bounds ahead of Aretha Franklin, or anyone else for that matter.

Why don't you tell me how that being a snarky jackass makes your goddamn opinion on music unquestionably better. I let it be known that I don't care for that stupidity that is "aretha franklin". Yah, do your thing, listen to that shiat and think you're teh cool.

Enjoy your RIAA endorsed, tasteless and soul-less softserve known as 'pop music' by the likes of fat idiots like Franklin.

Ta.

Fark_Q: I Miss Mah Bucket: Hey, Fark_Q, why don't you tell us how much more you know about music than everyone else. I am convinced that you only listen to music that is unquestionably leaps and bounds ahead of Aretha Franklin, or anyone else for that matter.

Why don't you tell me how that being a snarky jackass makes your goddamn opinion on music unquestionably better. I let it be known that I don't care for that stupidity that is "aretha franklin". Yah, do your thing, listen to that shiat and think you're teh cool.

Enjoy your RIAA endorsed, tasteless and soul-less softserve known as 'pop music' by the likes of fat idiots like Franklin.

Ta.

You're such a rebel and an edgy, original thinker. No really, you are.

Fark_Q: being a loud, fat, black woman is not a talent. if that is the case, there is whole slew of them in Philly that would have won a grammy by now.

I've never actually heard or read anyone dis on Aretha Franklin before, until now. Wow. Please post an mp3 somewhere of you're singing. I'd love to hear it. Also, maybe you should clean the shiat out of your ears.

She looks like she ate Matt Guitar Murphy.

Maynard G. Muskievote: She looks like she ate Matt Guitar Murphy.

I do believe that's the first Matt Guitar Murphy reference I've ever seen on Fark. Congratulations.

El Freak: Fark_Q: I Miss Mah Bucket: Hey, Fark_Q, why don't you tell us how much more you know about music than everyone else. I am convinced that you only listen to music that is unquestionably leaps and bounds ahead of Aretha Franklin, or anyone else for that matter.

Why don't you tell me how that being a snarky jackass makes your goddamn opinion on music unquestionably better. I let it be known that I don't care for that stupidity that is "aretha franklin". Yah, do your thing, listen to that shiat and think you're teh cool.

Enjoy your RIAA endorsed, tasteless and soul-less softserve known as 'pop music' by the likes of fat idiots like Franklin.

Ta.

You're such a rebel and an edgy, original thinker. No really, you are.

Yeah just like you, snowflake #020993994885-acc0882

Mudcloth: Fark_Q: being a loud, fat, black woman is not a talent. if that is the case, there is whole slew of them in Philly that would have won a grammy by now.

I've never actually heard or read anyone dis on Aretha Franklin before, until now. Wow. Please post an mp3 somewhere of you're singing. I'd love to hear it. Also, maybe you should clean the shiat out of your ears.

Again, just because you assclowns think this fat thing is talented doesn't make it so. If this stuff gets your rocks off, by all means, go on with your bad self.

Pandering to the negro-pop music establishment is rather funny to see in white-people. It's ok to admit you don't like that shiat- really it is. I'm sorry you can't be honest with yourself.

Fark_Q is a troll. Just thought you should know.

The Dynamite Monkey: Yes, she's a big fat crazy lady.

She's also the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

Go ahead, argue with that. Throw your Billie Hollidays at me, your Bessie Smiths, your Otis Reddings, your Sinatras, even your Piafs your Jolsons and your Carusos. Great artists, every one of them. But 'Retha eats 'em all for lunch. A bad pun but a true fact.

One word... "Louis". Nothing says "20th Century" more than ol' Satchmo.

InternetLOL: Fark_Q is a troll. Just thought you should know.

Duh! Real useful observation there, dumbass.

Auditory_Hallucination: The Dynamite Monkey: Yes, she's a big fat crazy lady.

She's also the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

Go ahead, argue with that. Throw your Billie Hollidays at me, your Bessie Smiths, your Otis Reddings, your Sinatras, even your Piafs your Jolsons and your Carusos. Great artists, every one of them. But 'Retha eats 'em all for lunch. A bad pun but a true fact.

Ella Fitzgerald

Win.

I got hip to Aretha via the Duane Allman Anthology. The version of The Weight they did together was musical perfection.


/no jokes about that song title, you asshat music critics

I'd rather listen to Victoria Spivey than Ma Rainey.

Loves Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie

Best damned chicken in the state.

/and it shows

All these years I thought it was Mad Guitar Murphy. Damn.

I'll just go back inside Bob's Country Bunker now.

LarrytheBlueOkie: I'd rather listen to Memphis Minnie than Bessie Smith.

I'd rather listen to Sarah Vaughn than Bessie Smith.


/Etta James a close follow-up

Good lord. You'd think she'd be able to afford a lap-band or whatever's currently hot in bariatrics. I want to see her still singing in five years, not keeled over dead due to morbid obesity.

Fido McCokefiend: I'd like to give a hearty shout out to those spaghetti straps. You got me how those things aren't either breaking under the strain, or cutting through her shoulders like piano wire.

Is there a Grammy for civil engineering?

El Freak: Maynard G. Muskievote: She looks like she ate Matt Guitar Murphy.

I do believe that's the first Matt Guitar Murphy reference I've ever seen on Fark. Congratulations.

Yeah... He must've blasphemed one too many times.

/Think!

Fark_Q: Are you trying to convince me or yourself? It's ok to admit you don't like that shiat. Really, it is.

I don't have any Edith Piaf records, but every other one is represented in my collection.

I love all those artists I listed, especially Sinatra. And to the poster who mentioned Ella, yeah she shoulda been on there too.

Opt8va: One word... "Louis". Nothing says "20th Century" more than ol' Satchmo.

I will agree with that... but I thought because it was his revolutionary playing as well as singing that he didn't qualify on a list of "singers". Probably unfair, and I will graciously concede the point to you.

All Aretha did last night was scream. It was absolutely terrible.

Sha may have had some great tunes in the past, but last night was just a train wreck. Even without the visuals.

The Dynamite Monkey: Fark_Q: Are you trying to convince me or yourself? It's ok to admit you don't like that shiat. Really, it is.

I don't have any Edith Piaf records, but every other one is represented in my collection.

I love all those artists I listed, especially Sinatra. And to the poster who mentioned Ella, yeah she shoulda been on there too.

This doesn't make you cool. Sorry.

FTFABut the years have taken their toll on Aretha's once slender figure
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
er...i mean...wtf?kinda on the hefty side

when the hell was 'retha ever slender?
i mean she was certainly more slender then than now, but seriously she was ALWAYS kinda on the hefty side