So if you wrote the song, it is in your financial interest to take credit for it. And because of that, it can be hard to figure out who really did the work of writing any particular song. Flack liked the song, and she liked the title. She worked on a cover version, playing around with the arrangement and the beat.
Gaye told her that she needed to go and record that thing right away. But Lori Lieberman also claims that she had something to do with writing the song. Fox wrote the music. When Gimbel and Fox brought the song to Lieberman — this, again, is according to Gimbel and Fox — she loved it, and said that the song reminded her of how she felt when she went to see Don McLean.
February Roberta Flack Hits No. Artist Name. Roberta Flack. Aretha Franklin's cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" became the emblem of the civil rights movement, a fiery force in the feminist movement and another unstoppable No. Revisiting the singer's mature album. Those are iconic accomplishments for any artist wanting to be recognized and appreciated for his or her work. Hill showed young black women that there was room to be vulnerable and assertive, classic and contemporary, hip-hop and soulful, and she demonstrated that to us in a song many of us now play for our daughters.
For a generation of black women, that record dominated life, spoke to our souls, and stays in regular rotation as its own year anniversary creeps up on the calendar. Even with the commercial successes of Nicki Minaj and Queen Latifah, the two uncontested most influential women in hip-hop, there remains something overpoweringly symbolic about that one song that trumps even their multimillion-dollar business deals.
We regret the error. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. The original version was written and released by Lori Lieberman in , though it failed to chart. However, it's The Fugees' cover that is the best-selling, with 1. The group swiftly followed Killing Me Softly with another chart-topper - Ready Or Not hit the top spot three months later.
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