ARETHA FRANKLIN (with Mark Bego)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul author Mark Bego joins Pop Pantheon to unpack the life and career of the greatest singer in American history, Aretha Franklin. Louie and Mark follow Aretha’s story from her upbringing as a reverend's daughter to her early gospel recordings and how her cover of Otis Redding’s ‘Respect’ rocketed her to superstardom. From there, they tackle Aretha’s fabled run through the late ‘60s, during which she soundtracked American life through the civil rights movement, women's liberation and the Vietnam War. Then they parse her unlikely 1980s comeback, her latter career, and discuss how she came to be seen as one of the most essential and legendary American pop stars ever. Finally, they place Aretha Franklin in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.6 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, |
| 0:21.9 | and I'd really appreciate it if you would rate, review, |
| 0:27.0 | subscribe to Pop Pantheon, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | That really helps us get the podcast in front of more people. |
| 0:33.8 | Thank you so, so much to everybody that does that. |
| 0:36.3 | Please follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. |
| 0:39.8 | I am, of course, at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Instagram and Twitter. |
| 0:44.6 | Get our Pop Pantheon niche legend dad hat. |
| 0:48.4 | This is the look for summer. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't know what you're going to be doing this summer without this hat. |
| 0:53.2 | It's going to be a really hot, blazing in your eye, sun situation if you do not have the |
| 1:00.2 | Pop Pantheon niche legend Dad Hat. |
| 1:01.7 | So go to Poppantheonpod.com in our merch store and get yourself one of those hats. |
| 1:06.8 | Of course, join us on Patreon at Pop Pantheon All Access, where we are doing at least three bonus |
| 1:13.9 | episodes of the show per month. Our most recent episode is a deep dive into Kesha's new album |
| 1:18.9 | gag order. We've recently covered Chromatica on its third birthday. We do new music speed |
| 1:25.7 | rounds all the time with some of your favorite past Pop Pantheon |
| 1:28.5 | guests and my friends, it's really popping over there. Patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon at the icon tier |
| 1:33.5 | or click the link in the show notes of this episode. And gorgeous, gorgeous, the bicostal phenomenon, |
| 1:38.9 | of course, on June 9th in Los Angeles, Lady Marmalade Night is happening, |
| 1:44.5 | and our debut in Brooklyn on June 16th at the Sultan Room. |
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