"A Natural Woman" names what happens when love returns you to yourself. Aretha Franklin recorded it in 1967 as a song about a woman who did not know she was incomplete until someone made her feel whole. Before him, she was a stranger in her own skin. He did not change her. He called her whole and she answered. The song understands that the best love does not transform you. It reveals the person you already were, hiding underneath the version you settled for.