Listen to this when
Respect
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, that's the assignment 👑
Who it's for
Aretha's version of Otis Redding's song became an anthem of dignity and a feminist rallying cry.
Underappreciated→Powerful and self-assured
Feelings it meets
What it is
Aretha Franklin recorded "Respect", first released by Otis Redding in 1965, in February 1967 for her Atlantic debut I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. Her version flips the perspective so that a confident woman demands respect from her man, adding the spelled-out hook and call-and-response backing vocals from her sisters.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, “Self-Reliance”
