I just LOVE when a singer is in the moment and feels the shit out of their song and they break out in a spontaneous vocal hit. While I have no doubt Yvette could memorize a complexly structured vocal, you can tell she was just in that moment and it came to her and out of her. The hit is at 2:29 - 2:32 :



I don't know if there is a musical or technical term to refer to this but this is what inspires me the most about singers. When it just flows and nothing can be done to stop it

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Yeah, she was feelin' that!!!!






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paligap said:

So you understand what I'm trying to say? And is there a term for it or do you just say she's feeling it?

Love that performance, Chaka knows how to throw it down.

Timmy84 said:

except when I see her Saw her at a street fair in LA about 4 or 5 years ago and she let the audience sing the whole set She would grab the mike, the song would start she would wail once and then throw the mike out for the crowd to finish. Musta been on some shit that day And I can't really blame it on the sound system cuz I saw Millie Jackson at the same fair a couple years ago and she tore the shit up.

I gotta see her the next time she's around because I need to experience the throwdown live!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Must've been drunk/intoxicated. She just got sober a few years ago.

As she would say "BESTEST" thread on this page

This video is another display of her spontaneity...



Call me crazy, there's a mixture of a devil and an angel in that woman's wail She's SO out there, its impossible for her to fake an emotion.

*SIGH!*

I better stop

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Dunno, Only that you feel it, and improvise in the moment...you're soloing with certain notes,the emotion hits you and you throw a little flourish, or dramatic gesture in there....




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Harlepolis said:

That's her charm. Only a few can do it and no one has done it better than CHAKA.

Harlepolis said:

Yeah, this performance is fucking magical

Supa, I know you'll like this one. I watched this last night and thought of your thread. Sure, Erykah doesn't have the best voice but I love her energy/vibe and she was definitely feeling it here and I love that about her. She goes into a zone at 5:39.



Oh and check out Millie Jackson's daughter on backing vox.
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SCNDLS said:

THE. ZONE you don't have to lift one single fingernail in selling me on this property I love Erykah's voice. She might not be a Chaka but please, that don't mean shit when you're a Badu

When Mama's Gun dropped I already was classing her as one of my all time favorites and when someone asked me about musical heroes I listed Erykah Badu and he said

but she only has 2 albums. How can she be your hero already?

You obviously haven't heard MAMA'S. GUN


Oh yeah, I see Millie Jackson's daughter in the background! At that street fair I mentioned earlier, when I hit the stage that Millie was singin at, her daughter was out there warming up and helping the techs tune the mics and shit and I thought

Goddamn, Millie Jackson hasn't aged AT. ALL!. Then I found out it was her daughter when the real Millie came on stage

Ok, just saw your Millie Jackson reference on the quote but I'm still gonna include my discovery like I'm the only one who noticed

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Ms. Badu is da truf.

Yeah, Millie spit her ass out.

OK, several things

• 10 minutes devoted to a music act on a talk show!
  
• The outfit!
  
• The Hair
  
• Her BIGGEST. HEFFA. MOMENT
  
  I'm told that after you recorded your last session you had a big event in your life. What happened?
  
  I had a baby (applause)
  
  I have been told that when women are that way (pregnant) when they are expecting, breathing becomes very difficult. Did you have difficulty breathing when you were singing?
  
  Not really. I was going along with Lamaze theory and came in very handy. In fact my voice was a lot stronger then

Bitch was trying to force herself to be washed up by 74!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

clip, ...throwin' down on the Mikey D show.

"Stop On By" is the joint.

.."Is it the material things that he's givin'
Can you truly say that you're happy livin'"...

I call it improvisation. That's what thrills me about live performances, even rappers.

Cinnie said:

I KNEW there had to be a technical term for it!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

That's what makes jazz so awesome.

Aww suki suki!!! It's a Chaka Khan/Erykah Badu Fest!!!

Y'all know y'all could have sent a sista up a smoke signal or something and I'd have come a runnin'!

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I didn't want to stop the bangfest you had goin with Obama

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: