Why? After rocking the American National Anthem at Barack Obama’s inauguration last week, Aretha Franklin decided she wanted to do more than just this singing malarkey.

“You should put me on your advisory team,” the Queen of Soul wrote in a letter to the President. Ha ha ha ha ha, good one, we like it, Aretha. “I am serious if you are interested.” Oh...

And not stopping there, in a bit of advice that’s akin to Mickey Rourke advising you to go under the knife a lot, Aretha added, “Eat plenty of good soul food, Indian, Hawaiian, Chinese, gourmet etc.” Oh honey, we love you, but you are sooo not a walking advertisement for eating lots of soul food!