Thread by @bader_diedrich

aretha franklin do right woman , do right man via @YouTube

I’m having a long nights journey into the soul and remembered this lovely , early feminist (i think) masterpiece

The sheer perfection of writing and execution
A summation of American music

Listening to it again

Again

Again

I may never stop listening to this song

The second pause before “a woman’s only human”
Is just a little too long and you anticipate the end but then that organ comes in then the queen and then the piano w the blues
Loving everything about what’s happening
Imma listen again

It’s thematically such a perfect statement of her strength and her tenderness that glimpse of her true self wrapped in the gospel roots “the joyful noise”
It’s just gorgeous

One last time and I’ll say goodbye