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‘Respect’ Wasn’t A Feminist Anthem Until Aretha Franklin Made It One

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Posted on August 17, 2018 · Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original.

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