- Awesome Moments: The fact that she is the first artist to have a single peak at every single top 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat only repeated by just four other artists.note
- At the 1998 Grammy Awards presentation, Luciano Pavarotti had to bow out of a planned appearance, and performance of his iconic "Nessun Dorma", at the insistence of his doctor. With literally a moment's notice, Aretha declared that she could do it. She killed it.
- At the 1998 Grammy Awards presentation, Luciano Pavarotti had to bow out of a planned appearance, and performance of his iconic "Nessun Dorma", at the insistence of his doctor. With literally a moment's notice, Aretha declared that she could do it. She killed it.
- Awesome Music: "Respect", "Think", "Chain of Fools", "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Freeway of Love", "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", "Ain't No Way", "Something He Can Feel", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "You're All I Need to Get By", and many more.
- Covered Up: "Respect" note and "I Say a Little Prayer"note have both become most strongly associated with Aretha Franklin rather than the original singers, though the original versions were both hits when released. The original singer of "Respect", Otis Redding, conceded himself that Aretha did the definitive take on it. At the time of its release, it also applied to "Border Song", which charted better than the original by Elton John.
- Growing the Beard: When she signed with Atlantic Records in 1967 and her producer Jerry Wexler let her have free rein to incorporate her gospel roots into her music.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Who'd ever have thought Aretha's song, "Who's Zoomin' Who?" would become such a pertinent question in the COVID-19 Pandemic with the rise of the online video conferencing service, Zoom?
- Memetic Mutation: The Fierce Hat◊ has become a popular subject for humorous photoshoppery.
- Old Shame: She felt this way about her 1979 disco album, La Diva. Looking back on it, she saw it as a desperate, rushed attempt to cash in on a rapidly dying Dead Horse Genre. It probably doesn't help that it was a critical and commercial flop.
- Refrain from Assuming: It's common for "Think" to be mistakenly referred to as "Freedom".
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