her generation and beyond. in fact, her music, her voice was and shall remain woven into the tab elpestry of our culture. she was the gold standard, and she will always be our queen. your thoughts right now? i ll admit, any time we ve lost an icon, i immediately call my mother. it was my mother who introduced me to aretha franklin. i remember growing up. we had the amazing grace album like propped up in our house at all times. so right now she really is i mean, it s a legend. i ve cried. i m having chills right now thinking about this woman gave us six decades of her life, and she really is and i know this term gets thrown around a lot, but aretha franklin really was a sound track to our lives. you re talking multigenerations of people who have an entry point into aretha. you know, it s kind of you immediately started to think, well, who else is going to give