I like Aretha and all....but there was already a Tina Turner by 1967. Hell, River Deep, Mountain Wide came out in 1966...and that was a few years after Ike and Tina were tearing up the R&B charts.

Now...if he meant no Tina solo like Private Dancer...I say I could live with that.

And, yeah...how about just calling Respect a great lyric rather than a great female lyric.

Actually though the song lives on in Aretha's versions, I'd be interested in how the lyric would be viewed today if it was never taken by a woman. Would it have been mysigonistic? An anachronism? Is it ok for a woman to demand respect, but brutish and coarse for a man to do so? Or...would it just be a lesser known Otis redding track that barely gets a mention?

And, actually, for an empowerment song, I prefer Think off Aretha Today.