Aretha Franklin takes on the divas on her new album, Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics. We’ve already heard her renditions of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” and Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep,” which also had a memorable Letterman performance. The rest of the recor...

Later this month, Aretha Franklin will release Aretha Franklin Takes On The Great Diva Classics, a covers album that she worked on with André 3000 and Babyface. We posted her explosive take on Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep,” and now she’s let us hear her take on Gloria Gaynor’s disco classic &...

Aretha Franklin was the guest on last night’s David Letterman, where she performed her cover of Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” that was released yesterday (which also contains a bit of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough). For the performance, she was joined by a choir and a decent-sized back...

'Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics' is out in October

You can make a pretty strong case that Aretha Franklin is the strongest female pop singer — or, hell, the strongest pop singer of any gender — of all time. And on her new album Aretha Franklin Takes On The Great Diva Classics, she takes on some of the best-known songs of peers and competitors [...]