- soul
- 52 min
- 11 tracks
- Arista
A Rose Is Still a Rose is the thirty-fourth studio album by American recording artist Aretha Franklin. It was released on March 24, 1998, by Arista Records. Conceived after a longer hiatus and a complete departure from her previous studio album What You See Is What You Sweat (1991), the album includes influences of 1990s hip hop as well as modern-day contemporary R&B and soul music.
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Character
Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Robert ChristgauA
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The SourceFavorable
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Tracks
- 1A Rose Is Still a Rose4:27
- 2Never Leave You Again4:28
- 3In Case You Forgot4:50
- 4Here We Go Again3:30
- 5Every Lil’ Bit Hurts4:07
- 6In the Morning4:56
- 7I’ll Dip4:06
- 8How Many Times4:21
- 9Watch My Back4:46
- 10Love Pang4:20
- 11The Woman7:42
11 tracks, 52 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Aretha Franklin
- Label
- Arista
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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