❤️
5
By Trust and Us
❤️
Just 1 detail.
3
By Public Marrow 67
I will survive could have been better.
Great Album!
5
By 123456789987654321SJL
Skip tracks 1 & 5. The rest are great especially the mash ups!
On THE DIVA singing the Divas.....
4
By Bobby Bee
Really?! Didn't I tell you, somewhere before that "Once 'Re does a song over, it can't be done again!". Only exception is her doing "Reach Out & touch" - No, Diana OWNS that one and Etta - "At Last"... now that I've heard the entire albulm ( I know I'm still calling it that) As MANY songs as I've heard her re-do. Either she picked the wrong ones or THESE weren't meant to be redone, idk. But I've heard better from the Queen of Soul. Only "People" and "No One" stand out for me. the rest she could've left alone. It's ok though, She's the Queen - so she's due one or two mediocre outings... A star for each GOOD one (just heard "Teach Me..")...Well, posthumously, she did ARETHA, it may not have been the songs WE would have picked but SHE did & that's just fine - We've lost a National & NATURAL TREASURE! - I LOVE YOU ARETHA!
Yes. No. Maybe....
4
By B.L.ob
Ok, this was great, obviously, it’s Aretha people. But it’s kind of hard to listen to, as it’s more auto-tuned then some of her previous works, and she’s obviously starting to decline health wise
This is Classic Aretha!
5
By itboi
First off, Aretha was 72 years old when she recorded these hits back in 2014 made famous by other divas! She had a career spanning 50+ years! She won 18 Grammy awards and was nominated 44 times (Michael Jackson won 13 Grammys and Prince won 7, so that puts things in perspective). I'm not going to sit here and write a nasty review of someone who has been singing longer than my 44 years on this earth. If I want to hear Adele sing "Rolling in the Deep" or Alicia Keys sing "No One," then I have those recordings in my library. This is Aretha! Rest in Peace Queen of Soul.
I Respect This for What it All
5
By gb0923
I didn't know how I felt about this when it came out - but I respect the style Aretha used for Rolling in the Deep. To be able to sing so well after all this time is a great compliment to her. She made the song an Aretha song.
Fast Forward this one!
2
By Krs601
I can’t help but say how disappointed I was with this effort. The voice of this shinning star was dimmed beyond belief. I have never jumped an Aretha song before and on this album I had to skip, skip, skip forward for my own good. The arrangements are candied and Aretha’s voice has been stripped of the richness that touches me and I’m sure others. I have been listening to Aretha for almost 50 years but this album is headed for the bottom of the pile. Great selection of songs, poorly executed.
The album that should not have been...
1
By Ywain1369
This is garbage. Aretha is one of the greatest female vocalists of all time and this is crap. The producer should never work again, he murdered these tracks with below sub-par production. Everything is wrong. The fact that there's no real instruments on the majority of the album (seriously, the queen of soul singing to a $49 drum machine track is insulting to everyone) and the vocals are overdone from performance to production... I can't even think about it anymore, it's so depressingly disappointing...
Awesome Aretha! But so-so album.
3
By Gesundheit_451
I've been a fan of Aretha since before many of you were even here. I love Aretha, but people are right, the instrumentals and background vocals sound cheezy,artificial, and canned. It's sounds like Clive Davis gave her a karaoke CD to sing to. It sounds like the whole album was wrung through some kind of roller that flattened everything out like an assembly line production. Aretha's voice gets sanitized to the point where her uniqueness is erased and she sounds like Muzak, and it's not her fault! Did Clive Davis do anything more than suggest this album to Aretha? I can't believe he listened to it. It's Autotuned to death and way over-produced. Aretha's live performance on Letterman was amazing! The know-it-all youngsters who worked on this don't know when to put their toys down and let an artist perform. I know a lot of the young singers they work with need all the help they can get, but Aretha is a 17 (Seventeen!) time Grammy winner. Who else can touch that? After being in this business for more than 50 years, she knows how to sing. Yes, like all of us, age is beginning to tell on her voice, but she's still got it. If you're a fan, buy the album. Just realize that the production crew got a hold of this one and didn't know when to let go.
