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I personally like the idea of the new Chaka Khan music. It's up to date, not so much so that it's loss a of funky old school grooves. Chaka Khan appears to try and make a staple with her new music as she did with Prince's I feel for you. I feel for you doesn't appear like much of a staple today but in its time it was the real first record to mesh r&b with hip hop/rap. It is production heavy. Although, some songs here sound undone or oversimplified filled up with embellished synthesizers. For me sometimes it works sometimes not. Like "Like Sugar" and "Too Hot" has some old Chaka fit inside to give you the idea she's evolving, keeping her experiment mentality without losing her true self in the process. It's also felt with "Isn't that enough". Hello Happiness brings the closest to the old funk with an updated sound for today's youth. For many old heads this will not resonate but this old head loves to find new sounds mixed with the old. If you listen close enough you can feel it. Chaka's voice has changed immensely but she's using it in a way that fits with this new sound. Production thrusts her voice too far in front on some the songs, like she'd need that. As time goes on I think this album will be one of her albums that kept her relevant in the eyes of the youth yet not so dismissive for us old heads who are looking for our favorite artists to up the anti without completely losing us or themselves with the new age sound. IMO it's a great mixture of the two. My only dislike is that it would have been nice to showcase Chaka sanging, like only she can. She and Prince sometimes produced the hell out of "Come to my house" but she still SANG on it.
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The soul legend’s 12th studio album is her first since 2007’s Funk This, and one would have thought in the twelve years it took to make it would contain more than 7 tracks and a 27:11 total time. The constant screaming on all the tracks is a little much. updated 09/15/2019 now there is a extended version of Like Sugar clocking in at 6:29 now if the entire album could be remixed it would make for a good album not a great album. Like Sugar extended version has the FUNK that the album is lacking.
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