Aretha Franklin

My goodness MawBroon for someone who isn't interested and thinks there has been too much coverage you seem to be adding to it
there is no need for such histrionics
Histrionics-really! I'm not at all worked up you on the other hand.....

I do think reprimanding someone because you don't agree with what they say is unacceptable.

Then please stop doing it.

Trisher please don’t be silly - I have at no time said anything other than express my own opinion and ask you to stop reading more into it than that and to stop overreacting.
This is too trivial to get so worked up about.
Hence my request to “give it a rest” - there is no need for such histrionics .

Six hours?
Was there a 'comfort break?'

She was a link to so many things and an inspiration to many people, particularly black women. I think the funeral is so long because so many wanted to speak and perform at it. It isn't of course British, but if that's what they want...
No objection to anyone posting their opinion about the funeral grumpa I do think reprimanding someone because you don't agree with what they say is unacceptable.

I can understand the crowds and the long service, so many tributes ,she was a link to Dr King and the American fight for civil rights.

A six hour funeral.

The thread has moved on from just RIP Aretha, on which I would not have commented as I have never been into soul music, to commenting on the coverage given to her death (at 76 she was not exactly struck down in her prime), which we all have a right to comment on as it affects the coverage given to the rest of the news.

So only those 'Aretha Franklined out' are allowed to post on this thread MawBroon. Personally if I don't care about some one/thing I tend to stay away and let those who do post. Can't you leave it at that

Oh give it a rest Trisher you were clearly a fan, some of us less so. Can’t you leave it at that?

Maw as she was black quite possibly the black American held her in higher esteem than John McCain

I too am Aretha Franklined out MawBroon, just as I was David Bowied out when he handed in his dinner pail a while ago.

lots of old singers continued touring well past their sell by dates.
I have never heard her mentioned for years and years and talking to people I know, neither had they.
in the US [and increasingly here too] any singer from the past or old celebrity, once dead is treated as a saint.

So you have insight into the thoughts of all Americans now lemon impressive indeed.
She was still touring in 2017 very succesfully and In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named her at number one on their rundown of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
So perhaps not as forgotten as you imagine

Sorry maw I didn't read, and have now pinched your words.

very few people had even thought about Aretha Franklin for donkeys years, now it's a circus.

I am not criticising the feelings of others Trisher merely stating my own.
The “American way of death” makes me uncomfortable at the best of times, this was a circus.

Anyone else uncomfortable knowing they kept changing her clothes while dead as she was paraded about in her open coffin for all to see?

Oh I think that's weird Bellasnana but the Americans have always had a strange attitude to death. Evelyn Waugh wrote about it in The Loved One.

Sorry, that should read any channel.

I agree JenniferEccles. Sometimes I watch the News on Channel 4 straight after the News on BBC 1 and wonder if I am in the same country as Channel 4 often cover completely different topics which are serious and should be the main news on [any] channel.

Me too, Bellasnana. Fair enough if people want to queue to see her and have feelings for her, but why make her into a fairground attraction?

Well, since we are all allowed an opinion, I find it quite macabre that AF’s corpse has had no less than three changes of outfit during her ‘lying in state’.

So why are so many people queuing to see her MawBroon.? You are entitled to feel as you wish, but not to criticise others feelings. Aretha's songs touched the hearts of many and she provided a role model for many girls. People obviously feel more connected to her.

I will no doubt be shot down in flames but I am entirely Aretha Franklined out.
We had two days of wall to wall when she died, tribute TV programmes in the interim, detailed coverage of the queue waiting to pay their respects (and perform their favourite numbers) and presumably she is being laid to rest today.
Great voice, great artiste, but John McCain was the greater loss to the US and the world.