She was a music icon without question and I loved her give a little respect toooooooo ooooooo oooooooo meeeeeeeeeee song but I think I get what you’re saying at the same time. I couldn’t name an Aretha Franklin album and I don’t know anyone who’s an avid listener of her music. I know a handful of her famous songs like the one mentioned alright.
I’m slightly bewildered, maybe amused is the wrong word, at the Oirish reaction to famous musician deaths in recent times. A lot of folk scrambling to tag themselves as the biggest fan or to get the viral RIP tweet, but that’s the way it’s gone these days.
I often have the suspicion that a lot of these people are googling like fuck and aren’t half as clued in about the deceased as they lead us to believe. You’ll get some D list RTÉ correspondent telling us that Franklin’s best song was actually an album track that was never released as a single or something.