{"id":128583,"date":"2018-08-16T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=128583"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:23:05","slug":"pray-like-aretha-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/pray-like-aretha-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray Like Aretha Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aretha-redux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aretha-redux.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aretha-redux.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aretha-redux-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aretha-redux-768x654.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember the songs that taught me the human voice is the most powerful instrument on earth. Some are immortal\u2014Billie Holiday\u2019s \u201cI Must Have That Man,\u201d Sam Cooke\u2019s \u201cA Change Is Gonna Come,\u201d the Who\u2019s \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley,\u201d Prince\u2019s \u201cSometimes It Snows in April.\u201d Some, like a-ha\u2019s \u201cTake On Me\u201d and Steve Perry\u2019s \u201cOh Sherrie,\u201d had an outsize effect on me because they dominated the radio at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Aretha Franklin\u2019s \u201cBaby, Baby, Baby\u201d hit me when I was a teenager. I\u2019d bought <em>I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You<\/em> on CD because of \u201cRespect.\u201d I knew Aretha only from the hits that circulated on the oldies station\u2014\u201cNatural Woman,\u201d \u201cChain of Fools,\u201d \u201cThink,\u201d \u201cDr. Feelgood.\u201d Great songs, but they hadn\u2019t prepared me for this. Nothing could prepare you for \u201cBaby, Baby, Baby.\u201d She starts singing a little off mic, building volume with each \u201cbaby,\u201d somehow sounding playful and utterly devastated at once. On the second verse, she blurs the syllables of \u201cBaby, baby, baby,\u201d slurring a little, sultry and sad, barely landing on the consonants. Then she cries out, \u201cI\u2019m bewildered, I\u2019m lonely, and I\u2019m loveless,\u201d and you believe her even though you know you can\u2019t believe a pop song. Later, as if frustrated by the failure of propositional statement to capture the enormity of her emotion, she strings it out: \u201cBaby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,\u201d the first three barely recognizable as words. She sounds absolutely bewildered, lonely, loveless.<\/p>\n<p>Lester Bangs wrote of Van Morrison that he was obsessed with how far he could \u201cspread one note, word, sound, or picture. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch.\u201d Aretha Franklin taught me what this meant years before I heard \u201cMadame George.\u201d Later, I would admire her almost as much for her militancy as for her voice\u2014she offered to post Angela Davis\u2019s bail in 1976. \u201cAngela Davis must go free,\u201d she said. \u201cBlack people will be free. I\u2019ve been locked up, and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can\u2019t get no peace.\u201d May she finally discover the peace that eludes us all, the peace she disturbed in all the right ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Robbins is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0<\/em>Alien vs. Predator<em> and\u00a0<\/em>The Second Sex<em>, as well as a collection of essays,\u00a0<\/em>Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music<em>. His poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7191\/past-one-oclock-michael-robbins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Past One O\u2019Clock<\/a>\u201d appears in the Summer issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I remember the songs that taught me the human voice is the most powerful instrument on earth. 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