
So that we can ignore it for the rest of the post: Yes, Aretha Franklin has put on a tremendous amount of weight and looks to be very unhealthy. But, at hand here: Her rage at being slighted at the Grammys, which might be bigger than her physical body!
When Beyonce and Tina Turner hit the Grammy stage for their high-octane duet on Sunday, …the woman known as the "Queen of Soul" was left in a state of dismay over Beyonce's introducing Turner as "the Queen."
Clearly offended, Aretha Franklin says in a statement, "I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyoncé, however I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy. In addition to that, I thank the Grammys and the voting academy for my 20th Grammy and love to Beyoncé anyway."
No love to Tina? Pointed!
While she will continue to hold the title of Queen of Soul, Franklin's original handle will from now on be interchangeable with the excellencies the Queen of Paranoia and the Queen of Being a Damn Baby.
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Queen or no Queen, she is putting alot of faith in those spaghetti straps, knowwhatimsayin?
Oh no she dii iiint. She'd better watch out. People who cross Beyonce have a way of having, "fender benders". Beyonce and Tina Knowles are not afraid of anybody.
WAS THE QUEEN OF SOUL(IN THE PASS) AMY WINEHOUSE IS THE NEW QUEEN OF SOUL . LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.
ON LIGHTER NOTE IT LOOKS LIKE A. FRANKLIN IS EATING FOR BOTH OF THEM. THANK GOD SHE'S NOT PROANA . GOT TO STAY HEALTY
Oh, Arethra, you will always be the Queen of Lemon Chiffon.
NOT EVERYONE CAN WEAR THAT YOU KNOW
LEAVE HER ALONE. IT MAKES HER FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN. Chelsea, I haven't had breakfast today, are you proud of me?
EAT FRUIT
Know what I had for breakfast? An entire fucking pig. Crispy snout to crispy tail. I washed it down with some olive oil. That is fucking freedom right there.
Are you sure about that? Did the pig willingly give you his meat? Because now your are repressing the pigs rights. I harassed some tortellini just last night and I feel kind of bad about that.
Well, I thought that "oink, oink, squeeeeeee!" Meant, "eat my delicious meat," but now that I think about it, it could have been, "back off you bitch." My pig is rusty.
I'll give you that. That can be hard to deciper. But was the pig wearing a Peta shirt? That would be a good sign he didn't want to be eaten.
That reminds me, I need to repress my children when they get home from school. I think I heard a rumor at breakfast they were planning some kind of coup. Kind of like Aretha's dress.
I had a #4 McDonald's breakfast meal but it's all good because I got it with a DIET coke.
Juje, sometimes you need to be all Kemer Rouge. Start by killing the one with glasses.
I caught the little one reading, Atlas Shrugged. What are they teaching them in school?
don't forget Dairy Queen
WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T SHE HAVE ANY STRETCH-MARKS IN HER ARMS? Are these pics modified?
Bloody hell…
Seriously, if she doesn't go to a doctor and get put on some sort of weight loss program, or go for the stomach reduction surgery, she's going to be dead in 2 years. Isn't she diabetic also? She's a walking time bomb and she's rich, she can do something about it, like get a personal chef. I'd rather be a live soul singer than a dead queen.
jujubees, I didn't let my kids read Ayn Rand until college. Then they got all philosophical,
and gave me a headache.
Kids just want to grow up so fast these days.
What's so wrong with video games, Spongebob and junk food?
Franklin is the second most honored female singer in Grammy history She has won eighteen competitive Grammy Awards, and has also been awarded the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Aretha won eight consecutive awards between 1968 and 1975, during which time the category of Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was nicknamed 'The Aretha Award'.
Franklin has had a total of eighteen #1 R&B singles - a record unsurpassed by any other female recording act.
I'm sure that Amy Winehouse would agree that Aretha has earnt the title "Queen of Soul".
WAS. THAT SHIP SAILED
1975 IS 32 YEARS AGO, WHY NOT GO BACK TO VAUVILLE
OR BILLY HOLIDAY. DON'T GET ME WRONG ARETHA AND BILLY ARE SINGERS THAT I LIKE
TIME IS BRUTAL. EVEN FOR THE YOUNG
Its time you saved up & got that fucking caps lock key fixed…you're giving me a headache….hope thats not too brutal for you CHELSEA. Aretha might be old to you….but the girl can sing some sweet soul and could teach you some RESPECT.
CRY CRY CRY . I'M THE QUEEN OF CAPS . ARETHA COULDN'T TIE HER OWN SHOES. BUT IF YOU READ LINK#21 YOU KNOW THAT I LIKE HER SINGING
BY THE WAY DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE CAPS BIGGER
and everyone wonders why I insist that she is a kid, and not some grown adult…
Chelsea, that made me laugh so hard, that I peed my pants.
ADMITTEDLY SO . THANK YOU
LIGHT IN UP AND YOU CAN PEE YOUR PANTS TO
If that was directed at me, I didn't get it. I don't understand partial sentences that don't even follow one another.
I was always have been of the opinion, you really have to be a certain age, and maturity to attain the appellation "queen". You do have to earn it.
I DO think that I like chelsea as the queen of caps.
I need to go and get on some dry pants now.
Chelsea, you are very funny. :-)
YOU WANT ME TO BE A KID I'LL BE A KID. CONTRAVERSTY (SPELLING'?)OVER
I'm not going to broach the subject of what I think chelsea would fit as the "queen of" - IMHO she's only moderately more tolerable than Denise15, who's only value to my day is sporadic distraction from the doldrum work day. Come to think of it, in that sense she tops chelsea.
THAT BAD WOW I SORRY TO HEAR THAT
I don't care if your a kid or an adult…I'd like for you to grow up and drop the all caps drama, and pick up a dictionary to learn some basic spelling. I realize we can't always get what we want, but damn. I can handle peppered and random commas and the occasional typo, but reading you gives me a headache. I could probably even handle your bad spelling if I didn't have to do it with all caps. Internet ettiquette…
BUT IT IS SOME WHAT LIKE A MOTH BEING ATRACTED TO THE FLAME.
AND YET YOU CAN'T STOP
WHAT is like a moth being attracted to the flame? Really, 1/2 the time you don't make sense or finish a thought. The other half I probably wouldn't mind reading if it wasn't for the stupid caps. Seriously, I'm not trying to be a bitch, I'm just sayin'…
DON'T RESPONED TO ME NO ONES MAKING YOU FOLLOW MY DRIBBLE
OR DOES THAT NAME REALY MEAN ADMITTEDLEY ADDICTED TO CHELSEA
fat girl jessica!
I GOT TO GO . I'M GOING TO SPELLING CLASS TO DEMAND MY MONEY BACK.
HOPE I CAN FILL OUT THE FORM. SEE YOU TOMORROW
GOODBYE…MAKE SURE YOU SPEND SOME OF THAT MONEY ON A NEW KEYBOARD CHELSEY
it's not the keyboard Billy. And how would me not responding imply that I'm addicted to her. I actually HATE bad grammar, but I put it aside for the witty humor of mollygood…
a.a. ….I have to confess that C-H-E-L-S-E-Y makes me laugh (sometimes)…admittedly for the wrong reasons…but she is trying…very.
a.a. ….I have to confess that C-H-E-L-S-E-Y makes me laugh (sometimes)…admittedly for the wrong reasons…but she is trying…very trying.
Whoops…I think my keyboard has caught an STD (shouting transmitted disease) from CHELSEY. I knew I should have worn a condom before entering this site.
LOL that's humor Billy.
(Shhh…I laugh sometimes too, but her caps DO give me a damn headache - which at work, I don't need help with. And she is kinda Denise15-ish sometimes.)
Billy - thank you - you made me laugh pretty hard at that 'get your keyboard fixed' post.
It's true, all caps are headache inducing.
Great, Billy got herpes of the keyboard. You'll never get rid of it now.
A friend of mine in college used to get shit-faced drunk and refuse to pass out, more or less. So if we were drinking and playing cards or whatever, she would be mostly passed out with her head on the table and contribute to conversation by occasionally raising her head and yelling. That's what Chelsea's caps problem reminds me of, so it makes me laugh. Just imagine she's really drunk. It will make more sense.
Lisa: I was thinking Lemon Meringue
Lily, did you go to JMU? Because is you did, I think I was your friend.
CAPS LOCK ON = cry for help…..Look at me my caps lock is on. I'm more important than everyone else.
That being said she is kind of funny.
I meant "because IF you did . . . "
I had to correct myself because I don't want to be a contributing factor to AA's headache today.
haha Helen…I read right over it…see, I don't notice these things in lower case. :)
Ok, now that I've had a beer:
Aretha will always be the undisputed Queen of Soul. Reference Billy's comments. (the Aretha Award, etc.)
Yes, the new, young folks come up, and we have to give them some room. That's why this old lady (me) didn't get all upset with chelsea. The young folks need their icons, too.
I can't pretend to know how the Queen of Soul was feeling that caused her to issue a statement.
However, I do know how it feels to accomplish things that none of your peers are accomplishing.
You are at the pinnicle.
And then you get old. People might forget,you think, and that is a messed up feeling. I am not the young woman I was, but I am still that person.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, you don't know how much that means to me…
So let's all go riding on that freeway of love in a pink cadillac. I've put the top down, and you can stop that! :-)
I think Aretha said it best when she said/sang:
People walkin' around everyday playin' games and takin' scores. Tryin' to make other people lose their minds, well be careful you don't lose yours.