Aretha franklin autobiography

I love soul music and its undisputed queen, but I found this book to be shallow. I am a bit disappointed to find that someone I admire so much as an artist I don’t relate to much as a person. There is something about the way she narrates her luxurious lifestyle that makes her sound rather tone deaf to me toward people on the outside of the rich celebrity bubble. Because of a disability, I mostly listen to audio books, so I get the audio narrator’s interpretation on top of the author’s, and I think the narrator had a glib and self-satisfied tone, but it seemed to me the author did as well.

It seemed that one of her objects was to refute anything negative that anyone else had ever said about her or her life, to point out how anyone she had ever had a conflict with had been wrong, and deny any gossip about her that had ever appeared in the media. In the process she sometimes created a narrative that seemed to me to be too rosy to ring complet

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