We tend not to think of Aretha Franklin as an artist of bravado and nerve and daring, as a woman with swagger. We tend not to think of her this way even though nearly every song she sang brimmed over with it. https://t.co/fkJ3Z0dluG

— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) August 23, 2018

Who the fuck wrote this ridiculous hot garbage and had they ever heard of Aretha Franklin before being given this assignment?

Everyone with even a passing familiarity with her life thought of her this way. https://t.co/uWs6rXgqs4

— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) August 24, 2018