Aretha's performance and studio version of RITD are just... I was ready to be like "yaaas kill the original" since I don't like Adele, but I couldn't post that with a straight face once I heard It
I'll take these screams over Aretha's butchering of her classics and other classics. Patti still sounds the same years later. Aretha's voice is SHOT.
Pattis voice ain't shot because she SCREAMS. Screamers never lose their voices. She barely belts or croons or harmonizes or nothing. Not as musical as Aretha. Or even Gladys. Aretha's a Queen, Gladys is the Empress. Patti is .............