Mmm there are probably some people like that (and as a music fan I can't undserstand that mindset at all!) but for me its about personal taste. Whereas I love Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Mavis Staples, Carla Thomas and many other commercially successful artists, Aretha has never really done it for me. She is too much of a shouter and her voice doesn't have enough depth for me in most of the records I have heard. Many of her records are just noise to me-for example all that 80s dirge she recorded with George Michael/Annie Lennox and the godawful Integrity But I will concede that I do like some of her slower tempo tracks, like Runnin out of Fools as slower tempo does seem to suit her voice more.
And I'm with Tony on Respect