The Queen of Soul plans to give the royal treatment to some songs made famous by other iconic female singers for her next album.
Aretha Franklin tells Billboard that she plans to hit the studio on Jan. 1 near her home town of Detroit to lay vocals atop of tracks currently being made by producers Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Don Was, with Clive Davis serving as executive producer.
"I'm even thinking of (Destiny's Child's) 'Bootylicious'," Franklin adds with a laugh.
"It's just re-working some things that were very, very good and certainly chartworthy and sold a lot of records," says Franklin, who hopes to have the album out during the second quarter of 2014 on RCA Records. "They're records that, musically, I respected and that I liked a lot and that I would love to have one go-'round with. I aspire for musical excellence. I have very high standards where music is concerned, and I'm looking for something I haven't done, something that you haven't heard and something just absolutely smashing."
Third ICONIC LEGEND to cover this ICONIC LEGEND'S songs for an album. First Liza Minnelli did Single Ladies, then Reba McEntire did If I Were A Boy, and now Aretha Franklin possibly doing Bootylicious!
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