No Disrespect to Aretha, but Here's Why Some (Maybe Many) People Still Will Say Chene Park

Another spot joins a club that includes Pine Knob, Tiger Stadium and University of Detroit -- local names that survive rebranding.

Add Chene Park Amphitheatre to the list, even though a sign on East Jefferson Avenue now identifies the riverside attraction as Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre.

"My mama call it Chene Park, I'mma call it Chene Park," tweets a diehard named Jamillah who posts as The Nomadic Blogger ("a girl from Detroit with a lot of random thoughts").

We figure defiant holdouts r-e-s-p-e-c-t the late singer behind the new name, but wonder what's behind this version of The Resistance. So we posted four possibilities in a weekend Twitter poll -- a playful, wildly unscientific survey with a minuscule sample size. 

About four dozen readers respond. (If the last choice has an unfamiliar name, here's a brief history of the city-owned performance site and its namesake.)

You plan to continue saying Chene Park, rather than Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, because . . .

— Deadline Detroit (@DeadlineDetroit) May 18, 2019

A few participants post comments. To @msmaryjodetroit, the name Aretha Amphitheatre "has a better sound." Other reactions:

Man I just said this, The Aretha just doesn’t roll off the tongue like Chene Park

— Brielle Symone (@DontGoThere_Gab) May 17, 2019

I may go back and forth - no option for that! ha!

— C & B Scene (@CandBscene) May 19, 2019

I still call Comerica Park Tiger Stadium, it’s still “Pine Knob”, but I gotta give Sister Aretha her “propers”.

I’m just gonna call it “Aretha Park”.

— Steve Sawyer (@SawyerSteve) May 18, 2019