{"id":793816,"date":"2019-03-13T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=807499"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:39:09","slug":"watch-chaka-khan-play-funky-like-sugar-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-chaka-khan-play-funky-like-sugar-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chaka Khan Play Funky \u2018Like Sugar\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chaka.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Funk icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chaka-khan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chaka-khan\" data-tag=\"chaka-khan\">Chaka Khan<\/a> belted her recent single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-chaka-khan-return-with-like-sugar-first-new-song-in-decade-630406\/\">\u201cLike Sugar\u201d<\/a> on Wednesday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellen\" data-tag=\"ellen\">Ellen<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer recruited a quartet of breakdancers for the track \u2014 a fitting touch for a song about a \u201cfunky, funky groove.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s like sugar, so sweet\/Good enough to eat,\u201d she sang over a thick bassline and dense rhythm track. \u201cWhen I feel the funk, I give in\/Get up on yo feet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLike Sugar\u201d appears on Chaka Khan\u2019s recently issued 12th LP, <em>Hello Happiness<\/em>, her first album since 2007\u2019s <em>Funk This<\/em>. Producer Switch, a former member of Major Lazer, co-produced each of the set\u2019s seven tracks and issued it as the first title on his new label, Diary Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chaka Khan, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-funeral-see-chaka-khan-honor-soul-icon-with-going-up-yonder-718256\/\">performed a lengthy version of gospel song \u201cGoing Up Yonder\u201d<\/a> at Aretha Franklin\u2019s August funeral, recently announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/michael-mcdonald-chaka-khan-tour-dates-790373\/\">co-headlining U.S. tour with soul singer Michael McDonald<\/a>. The summer trek launches June 19th in Detroit, Michigan and wraps August 4th in Rohnert Park, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chaka-khan-like-sugar-ellen-807499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funk icon Chaka Khan belted her recent single \u201cLike Sugar\u201d on Wednesday\u2019s Ellen. The singer recruited a quartet of breakdancers for the track \u2014 a fitting touch for a song about a \u201cfunky, funky groove.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s like sugar, so sweet\/Good enough to eat,\u201d she sang over a thick bassline and dense rhythm track. \u201cWhen I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 10:16:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}