Aretha Franklin - Freeway of Love/I Dreamed A Dream

[721alan]

she is the queen but i never imagined she could ruin a song like this

[suttonfosteristhebes]

This is the WORST verion of I Dreamed a Dream that I've ever heard. The style is totally inappropriate and her voice is sooooooo ugly!

[wookee1001]

@suttonfosteristhebes YOU ARE SIMPLY... a fool.

[robertsnowden19]

She's this size again! Thank god!

[Datplayboy1]

Aretha Franklin is THE QUEEN OF SOUL!!! any thing the Queen sings can only get better. Many have sung that song their way, and now that song has been ARETHARIZED!!! All it needed was a touch of soul and justice was done. Thank you QUEEN ARETHA for yet again an AWSOME performance. 

[NubbyG05]

@Datplayboy1 ARETHARIZED.......I Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....should be in Webster's Dictionary

[Datplayboy1]

@NubbyG05 LOL!!!! Thanks

[RusDion]

if you will listen to the song closely, you can notice that the song is strongly emotional!!!!

[MoonChild2U]

For those who said "if she doesn't have the technique or the range to sing the song as it was originally written, then she shouldn't touch it.". I would think that Aretha is one of the greatest gorgeous singers able to sing any song in her style, whether remain as original or at her uniqueness talented.

Why need to follow the original when she did not destroy the song but pulled out something the others can never ever do for this song.

Respect that is your own opinion, and this is mine.

[mschest]

Beautiful!

[imRoxFarjat]

She is a great singer, but MUSIC and ART is something higher than any human being, it's immortal and it should be respected. A song should NEVER be arranged for an artist, the artist should make him/herself fit into the song, if she doesn't have the technique or the range to sing the song as it was originally written, then she shouldn't touch it.

[1106gary]

This is a wierd combination of songs. She did I Dreamed better for the Clinton inauguration. But in both cases she trys to make it about a MLK jr speech rather than a girl's life.

Marlyn Mc Coo does the song more justice and doesn't have to slur the notes or change the words.

[miketlow]

@1106gary..Its called interpretation and that something that Aretha is a master at. Just because you understood the song in one light does not mean that's the only light it can shine in...

[Chimier]

@miketlow That is one of the best ways someone has ever explained the gift of interpretation. I agree 100%

[Chimier]

@miketlow at is one of the best ways someone has ever explained the gift of interpretation. I agree 100%.

[prozacato]

that hefer knows she can blow!

[tirayi]

This was a good time for Re. Stunning.

[DetroitLives313]

Happy Birthday your Musical Majesty.......the Great Aretha!

[bushkilledtowers]

c.mon how may artist can handle the stage by themselve nowadays,

[mostick313]

aretha is the greatest ever! big boss bad ass #1 diva of all divas! greatest singer of all times! feasting my eye balls on her total black magnificance is way beyond electrifying and mindblowing. queen ree ree, your royal highness, your superior magnificant voice,superior inturpretive skills, confidence and your superior vocal abilities are beautiful beyond human understanding! no other singer can do what you do miss aretha, your royal highness! i really enjoyed this!!! thanks mostick313.

[Tanguynew08]

The absolute diva ! Powerful interpretation ! What a woman, what an artist. I am speechless !!!

[Juicyslide]

sure is great.

[fernandezdecepeda]

Best version ever. I love the way she sings Freeway of love hahahaha she's unique!

[mykoniath]

who was the singer of the song i dreamed a dream?

[bigdogg11]

Who, your mother?

[omglolwhatever]

Ironic coming from a Susan Boyle fan lol!

[redtree310]

she is very good singer! no doubt! but there ae songs that we cannot twist in melody! it loses the meaning and the emotions enveloping the song!

[picstream]

What a voice... simply amazing. I personally prefer Patti Lupone's version of "I dreamed a dream" but Aretha's voice is simply out of this world.

[italiantaurus]

musardus,your shit buddie. ofcourse she,s different. She is the queen of soul. Speak whenyour spoken to dipshit. Your probably not old enough to even talk. Aretha's the best.

[sisoso]

i dreamed a dream brought me here

[Yozi6414]

Please...Susan Boyle is great, but she can't even compare to Aretha... You wanna know what brought me here? ... typing in the name Aretha! (lol)

[pastre999]

to even compare susan boyle with Her Most Gracious Queen Aretha is like comparing diluting juice with the most exquisite and expensive champagne..i couldn't believe that Boyle already has agressive fans here in youtube, well they more are like layabouts protesting left and right ..Long live Aretha!

[bigdogg11]

Get off of your period and grow up! We LOVE ALL OF HER VERSIONS OF ALL OF THE SONGS YOU LISTED!

[mrx79hotmailcom]

Copy and paste if Susan Boyle brought you here!!

[flajellybean]

I could listen to Aretha sing all day and night....she brings so much to the table. I have always loved and admired her voice. She is unforgettable.

[musardus]

oh that's great... look how she ruins the song "i dreamed a dream"

why didn't she just rename the song, like, I dreamed a cunt dream, what a shit dream, i had a fucking dream.... she just sings it like a completely different song afterall! and it's painful to listen...

[YuzimaPhilip]

"Go on up to love satisfaction and joy road"

[Eamesam]

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[dariofreijanes]

I prefer Susan Boyle!!!!!!!!

[wilstebri]

Sing it, Ms. Ree!!!! 

Sing!!!!!!!

[radical11]

I can't believe that a bunch of idiots would come to a video everyday to negative things about the artist. If you don't like it, why are you here? Haters if Aretha never sang "I dreamed" & "Nessun Dorma" half of america would never have heard of them. She made them crossover hit records. lol

[tousamis]

the bunch of idiots have ears, so it would be better if american audiences had ears too to search for real singers who sang it before her, and did it MAGNIFICENTLY. Maybe she should also play handball like that american audiences would be informed about this sport, but with her weight i think she would not run so let others play handball. Sometimes it's better to let singers sing and "others" sing what they can sing instead of butchuring opera.

[radical11]

Just what we all need, another pompus euro who think THEY have a genuine musical authority of some sort. Last I checked Aretha was the queen of Soul there too. 21 grammy's later you want to know what we see in her? I might search for another singer singing this IF I CARED. Aretha changed the lyrics and the context and my ears and thousands of others liked it. I think you need to get over yourself! It's 10yrs old. Aretha is rich and you have your nasty idiot opin, opera and handball!

[tousamis]

My opinion is worth yours, you think that you're a genius because you like her ???? how pretentious you are, sorry but when this poor has been massacres Nessun Dorma, then listen to italian opera singers who know what opera is. It's not because she had 21 grammy that it gives her the right to destroy others' works.

[radical11]

Well the main singer of this song Pav, enjoyed it so much he offered to fly her to Italy for a duet concert and re-recording of it. Is your opin worth his? If there was never any merge of musical styles &genres, we wouldn't have as many as we do. You limit your musicallity w/traditionalism. We all know what great opera is and sounds like, but do you know what a great historical musical moment is? It was soul crossing over to opera at 8 min notice! NO! You are a one track traditional mess!

[radical11]

Thus the thunderous applaus, standing ovation and tears from other artist (on the nessun dorma video). Also the worldwide front page media coverage the next day. It wasn't the A+ or even B+ vocal performance, it was the shear guts this queen had to pull it off w/8 mins notice of Pav's illness. That is what we see in her and why she is the undisputed queen of soul ALL OVER THE WORLD!

[roxyjuanes]

Don't get me wrong, Aretha has great vocals, but she can't even sing I dream a Dream right, i agree with most, she needs to stick with soul music.

She cant even sing a proper high note which is the climax of this song, she instead changes the song and completely ruins it.

Kinda like taking tomatoes out of ketchup or catsup. Withought the "Sha-ah-ah-ah-ame" high solo the song has absolutly no challenge to it.

Aretha is again, great, but not that extraordinary.

[tousamis]

TRUE, she doesn not sing, she makes vocal most of the time ! I can't stand her and still wonder what people find in her ! her voice and way of singing has no emotions and no feelings but are noisy and tiring to listen ! listen to her "Nessun dorma" version which is a real disaster !

[radical11]

You wonder what people see in Aretha? lol Shall we base your opin on YOUR many gold and platinum cds? No emothion? What are you 10? Been living under a rock? Aretha created an entire genre called SOUL, which so touched the peoples EMOTIONS, they crowned her Queen of it! Sorry she didn't sing ur song like u wanted, but let's not be rediculous. You are really cracking me up!

[tousamis]

She invented SOUL ?? i didn't know she was born so early ! what about Ray Charles who created it ignorant ???

[radical11]

Ray Clarles did not start out singing soul idiot. He along with Aretha, James Brown and a few others cultivated and crafted the art. Study before you speak!

[tousamis]

Ray Charles invented Soul as early as 1958, this poor has been of Aretha started with gospel than pop and got interested in soul by the late 1960s ! YOU should now that poor stupid ignorant ! study before writing such lies.

[radical11]

Look up Ray Charles early works idiot! Aretha did her 1st gospel recording in 1956 at 14yrs old. That is the base of SOUL music. Ray started out singing jazz and standards and rock and roll which were popular at the time. If you study you know he was imulating Nat King Cole until being encouraged to come into his own. NOBODY imbodied SOUL like James Brown and ARETHA and that is why they are the king and queen of it!

[tousamis]

you're completey stupid, Aretha waited more than 10 years before doing soul music, she was into gospel and pop, if you ignore this then you should shut up. Ray charles invented soul, that's everywhere, just try to open a book once if you know how to read, but it seems you're blind and deaf.

[radical11]

Ray charles has a biographical academy award winning movie! It, like the the books you claims to have knowledge of will back what I have stated. I looked at your page and now I understand that you are just ignorant period.

[tousamis]

My page ? what funny and ironic from a stupid teenager like you ! there is more in my page than in yours full of butts and stupid punks who show their ass at the camera ! how funny from you !! buy a mirror and you'll see your own ignorance and shallowness.

[radical11]

I see at the bottom of your page that you often have these run ins. A 40ish shirtless man worrying about butts and the like? lol Does your intolerance of it make you some how the wiser?

[tousamis]

I also like good and real singers of all times, artists who have voices, emotion, and things to say instead of monkeys who yell on a stage and massacres others songs.

[radical11]

Monkey? Are you angry? Aretha has really triggered your EMOTIONS hmm, maybe you should seek professional help.

[tousamis]

i think that someone who puts a video called "how to suck a dick" here needs more help than i do ;-))) and i think it's not only a doctor you need to see, but maybe stop wanking in front of your idol and get a life by yourself.

[radical11]

You are really caught up with that particular video aren't you? Perhaps you could teach us all better than the person in the video. Since you like arguing with youngsters, maybe you like wanking them too? With no shirt, I'm confused about you and maybe I should turn you over to the authories. I'm under age and becoming afraid of your hostility. lol

[tousamis]

LOLOLOL mdr ! you are under age and you have a video called "how to suck a dick" and others with young men's butts ?? maybe I SHOULD tunr you over the authorieties just to see WHO you are.

[tousamis]

on YOUR page, i see the video "how to suck a dick".... is it what you call being clever ??? and you talk about my page ..?? incredible ! now i understand the king of fans that poor fat "singer" has.... TRUE, you know a lot about music and soul ! and butts too ?

[radical11]

Well thank you for stopping by my page because now I can add one more shirtless OLD faggot to the line up. You represent the opera world very well there old man.

[tousamis]

lol young faggot, someone who has a video on his page called "how to suck a dick" should shut up and return to his poor wanking instead of talking to adults. and i can appreciate good pop songs like "the greatest love of all" when it's done by Whitney Houston, not when it's wasted by that obese old has been who has no voice and no tune but just shouts and yell.

[radical11]

Well I would love to have one big FAGGOT show down with you all day, but I have other things to. You think about the lessons I have taught you today and wisen up old man!

[metropolitic]

This slow jam funk soul version of I Dreamed musically has no center for me. It is internally consistent, interesting, and there is nothing wrong with the black experience, but this interpretation seems to be enslaved improperly to it.. It starts depressed and ends depressed, each word over-articulated in the fog of that funk. Instead of tonal flashes of perserverance and hope, she simply changed the words at the end from "life has killed.." to "life must not kill...", bleh.

[Blendre]

At least Susan didn't forget the words. Aretha is great but she's taking a lot of liberties with the lyrics. Actually she just winging it. What she is singing makes no sense.

[TheQueenAretha]

She didn't forget the words. She changed them. Not winging it at all. She changed the lyrics.

[DJMar10]

Copy and paste if Susan Boyle brought you here!!

[BrigettSparkles]

OK people, Susan is great, and talented, but she ain't Aretha.........and no one can touch the queen of that role and that song, one miss Patti Lupone.

[maltoka]

she doesn't sing the right lyrics?????? She needs to stick to Soul!

[ams146]

arent you getting tired of everyone comparing versions with susan boyle ...??? cmon!

[Deufje]

I know I am. How can you even start to compare the queen of soul with a tv-contestant?!

[Barndancer61]

Nice, but she's no Susan Boyle.

[pradabagslap]

Duh, she can sing the high and low notes without sounding strained. Oh and she plucks her eyebrows and brushes her hair xx

[ciccolilli]

Susan boyle is better--- Much!

[pradabagslap]

The only thing Susan Boyle is better at is being an ugly piece of cunt

[ciccolilli]

You must be a really crude female or just want to be one!

[pradabagslap]

poor baby x

[osuguy555]

Her's is more optimistic.

"Life must not kill the dream I dreamed"

[MissyDiva88]

This version is so awesome!! She gives this song a lot of meaning.

[kassim777]

susan boyle sung this song better!

[hotsmile101]

no wayyy did she !!!!!!!

[MissyDiva88]

No she didn't..this is just a different version to the song...it just has more soul

[Carlospun]

There are lots of version better than Boyle's.

The only thing is that she is so ugly that everybody loves her, kind of a female Shrek, no offense!!

[woody5551]

I don't understand why the media bestows such accolades on Beyonce Knowles when Aretha Franklin is so much that BK will never be.

[mhax3]

Aretha has so many effects and techniques that you never know wich one she is going to use it, that 's why she can destroy any other standard singer, because they dont know how to sing and improvise, that's why Aretha with the year her voice maybe diminished, but doesnt matter because she always has a ace under the sleeve in the stage

[ZebFAN09]

Aretha really gives the lyrics meaning and depth. I love this!

[kimmjio]

you have to wear a retrospective hat to appreciate her genre...

ain't it the point of soul?

[scramasboy]

I hate this.

[Worme95]

They why aren't you watching Susan's version if it's so much better?

[nazareth727]

This is the soulful version people. I dreamed a dream. Stop hating!

[mgraham650]

Other than the dubious juxtaposition of this beautiful song with "Freeway," Aretha makes it a civil rights paean, and does it in true soul style.

mg in kc

[kern39743]

one of the most over rated singers,screamers.if you cannot hit the note scream it. this song is out of her leauge

[winsome1235]

There is nothing over-rated about Aretha. If you had ever seen her live you would go away thinking you witnessed a once in a lifetime experience. I saw her a number of years ago and it was by far the best concert I have ever attended and I have seen many of the greats of the last 40 years perform. As she has aged her voice is no longer a juggernaut but she is great. Susan Boyle is great too, just undiscovered until now.

[ZebFAN09]

You obviously cannot appreciate music kern39743. Aretha Franklin is world renowned for having the clearest high notes ever, and could hit them purely throughout the 60s and 70s, and the habit of smoking changed the tone of her voice, but it just changed. The change gave her some gritty soul to it and it was still amazing. And her voice's tone always has something about it that is moving.

[spitfire9b]

Aretha never had the highest, clearest notes ever.

The more I hear Aretha, the more I appreciate how great Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James were. I guess you never heard them (or Mariah Carey, Kiri Te Kanewa, Sarah Brightman or Katherine Jenkins) sing. If you did, you would not make such an outrageously incorrect statement.

Simply, Aretha cannot sing Broadway musicals or opera (IMO, she murders Nessun Dorma). Aretha is a good soul singer, but certainly NOT the greatest singer of all time.

[ZebFAN09]

I love Ella Fitzgerald, but she has two octaves of range. And to promote the videos of someone I do not like, check out the channel of monraydayizback and his belting videos and vids of Aretha's notes, they are clearly higher and clearer. Mariah Carey's tone is so weak, and truly, tone is way more important than notes. Watch Divas live 98, Aretha destroyed Mariah on stage. You can also find videos of Whitney destroying Mariah on stage.

[ZebFAN09]

Arethac can definately be declared for having the highest chest notes in the clearest tone. Take a search for it on youtube. Mariah is a joke. She won't ever undesrtand that soul is more than just waving your hand while you sing. When it comes to character, versatality, tone, vocal control that reflects the song's meaning, it's Aretha Franklin.

[snowheat]

susan boyle has a ways to go before she can be compared to Aretha, but Susan by far and away sings this song much better than anyone I have heard so far, even Aretha, patti lupone, elaine page

[cestlaverite]

I love Aretha Franklin. But I've come here because I'm listening to all the versions of this song, comparing them to Susan Boyle's. I've yet to find anyone whose version moves me as much as Susan's, not even her idol, Elaine Paige. Although I know it's Aretha's style, I wish she hadn't injected the "soul singing" when performing this. The running up and down the scale rather than holding onto a note doesn't work with a song like this; it loses all its beauty. But I still love you, Aretha.

[roundeye888]

Right on, too true- this verions is too "dirty"- you loose the purity of the lyrics. All praise to Aretha, she is the queen nonetheless.

[darkyboy1000]

WOW THIS LADY IS A WONDER

[ZebFAN09]

I really love the ending where she says "I feel like shouting" (reminds me very much of Mahalia Jackson's version of "How I Got Over"

[libbygoosey]

When I grow up I want to be Aretha.

[NubbyG05]

Aretha Franklin is gifted and blessed with the ablility to bring the true essence of a song to birth. For example..."Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel was brought to life by her version of the song. That's why Aretha's voice is the 8th wonder of the world. Aretha's "I Dreamed A Dream" will always brings tears to my eyes.

Salute to the Queen of Soul!

[danieldkim]

her versions retains the essence of the broadway version most cogently when it sounds the least like it melodically

[fernandezdecepeda]

Black power! Love Aretha

[ZebFAN09]

Black power? What's that got to do with anything?

[ngd12345]

Black people have larynxes of steel. it's genetic.

[ZebFAN09]

I'm sure...

[mikeatize]

She Changed the meaning because she already knows that dreams can never die.

[eugenehilter09]

thanx u

[StarryNight713]

Not only do I object to this performance musically as a violation of one of the greatest songs ever written [my personal favorite], but anybody who knows one iota about this song knows that she totally destroyed the meaning. It's beautiful because it's a song about a woman who's been destroyed by life. She just got fired for her job for not sleeping with the boss. She's about to become a prostitute, get tuberculosis, and die, leaving an orphan child behind. The dream dies. Get over it.

[BronzeVenus]

I've never seen Les Miserables, but for a 'showtune' to really work it should be amenable to some meaning outside of its context in the show -- like tunes by Sondheim or Cole Porter or Oscar Hammerstein -- so if this song is so literal that it makes no sense outside of the show and the character who sung it, it is a limitation of the song and not the singer.

[StarryNight713]

It is meaningful outside of the show. It's a beautiful song in and out of the show. I'm just saying that when you re-write the lyrics to change the meaning of the song, you defeat the point of it.

[curiosoniceboy]

the is sucsh a bad performer

[ZebFAN08]

what?

[distantm]

you're either deaf nor you have holes in your brain.

[mindyourbizok]

She's very beautiful here.

[mindyourbizok]

I love this song. Very soulful. She looks good for her age.

[AnTwineSignature]

Everything has it's season and the season was set for this performance. As a vocalist of similar approaches to songs, I felt Aretha did the song justice. If one can't do the song with the original formula, perfect it in another. he Queen of Soul delivered I Dreamed A Dream to President Bill Clinton in all laud and honour. She felt that there! I have nothing bad to say. I've been searchn for this video and now I've found it. That was significance. Only Aretha could do Aretha. Abundant stars!

[zipnose91]

For a good read check out "A Step Into Deliverance" by T. Pugh. It's a riveting autobiography. A real-pager.

[AnTwineSignature]

Thanks. What made you offer that reading?

[cece1640]

u see this is around the time she was letting her self go she is gaining some pounds but her performance is great

[Ledhead323]

^^^^ The last time I saw something like that it was swimming at Sea World. How did they get that onto the stage, a fork lift?

[thompsont908]

Sang it Mamma....Love ya' lots

[thylacine4]

our beautiful queen...in remarkably good voice with glimpses of her 60s and 70s majesty!! Loved it.