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This is one reason why I wasn't too crazy about her last album.It was too hip-hop sounding and one of the tracks even featured Da Brat.Imo,Chante needs to get back to the sound of her first two albums....sweet,melodic,warm,soulful grooves. | |
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They didn't sell too well though. There was a reason the sound changed after that. Look at who was popular during that time: Mary J. Blige, En Vogue, TLC, SWV, Jade, etc. and they all had hip hop elements to their music. Except for En Vogue, they dressed in a hip hop style too. Mariah Carey had some New Jack Swing songs like Someday. On her debut album she even raps on one song Prisoner. Then there were the dance music singers like CeCe Peniston, Rozalla, Real McCoy, and Crystal Waters. With Chanté, the quiet storm audience is not enough to sell a lot of records and her first 2 albums were not pop enough like Whitney, Mariah, Boyz II Men, & Toni Braxton, so that didn't help her crossover chances. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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^^the first two albums didn't sell well because they weren't properly promoted.A wonderful single like "It's Alright" should have been a smash! That's her finest single right there. | |
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I love this clip of Chante singing "It's Alright" on the Tom Joyner Show
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Bullseye on the Power album. Don't laugh at my funk
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That's quiet storm R&B, like Phyllis Hyman. They didn't have the "urban contemporary" format then. I don't see It's Alright" coming on after Dr. Dre, C+C Music Factory, or Cypress Hill (unless she put out a remix), but SWV can. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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SoulAlive said: Lakeside had a lot of cool jams! "Your Love Is On The One" (1980) "It's All The Way Live" (1978) "Pull My String" (1979) "Outrageous" (1984) "Make My Day" (1984) My top ten Lakeside jams: Shot of Love (1978) It's All The Way Live (1978) Pull My Strings (1979) Rough Rider (1979) Fantastic Voyage (1980) Your Love Is On The One (1980) Back Together Again (1981) Something About That Woman (1981) Magic Moments (1981) Raid (1983) | |
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The thing is,Chante was a very classy,sophisticated artist back then.In her first music video,she is wearing a sexy evening gown.That's who she really is.She's not hip-hop [Edited 11/5/15 22:03pm] | |
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Chante did record one Babyface tune on the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack. Wey You I actually liked Chante's first 4 albums. Underexposed is pretty good. You just have to get past the 2 or 3 tracks Jermaine Dupri and the rest of it's pretty good. Believe it or not Chante is coming to my area this month. I'm looking to check her out. Don't laugh at my funk
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I doubt it. Nippy was his Pop queen. He wouldn't have allowed Chante any of that spotlight. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Good question. She could have meant any number of things. Some people love "harder" than others. Chante seems like she could be one of those people. And if she's with a dude who does not return her love with the same kind of intensity, then she ends up disappointed. I saw tears in her eyes when she made that "we love in different kinds of ways" statement. I think she was just really hurt that their marriage wasn't what she wanted it to be. You know how cold and distant some dudes can become, especially after they get married. But only she, Kenny and God know for sure what went wrong. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Yeah, I didn't like that album at all. I listened to it once. Nothing really caught my attention. Completely forgettable and her weakest album to date. I would really love to hear her do some more jazz stuff. I always listen to her version of Nancy Wilson's "Guess Who I Saw Today". I thought that was brilliant! "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Cinny said: Is Outrageous on that album? Don't laugh at my funk
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No. "Outrageous" is the title track of their 1984 album, while Untouchables (1983) contains the hit "Raid". | |
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How do you know that? Mariah Carey has said her earlier albums were more Tommy Mottola's idea than hers and that the record company didn't understand why she did the song with ODB. She has followed the same formula ever since. Whitney's image was not her either. Because of her image is why folks wondered why she got with Bobby Brown and that Bobby was the reason she was on drugs when it was her brother who introduced it long before she met Bobby. The Supremes were from the projects, but they wore fancy dresses. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Sounds hip hop to me. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Interesting that I never heard any of these remixes for Chante Moore on regular r&b stations but I guess the label was desperate to cash in on the ever changing landscape of r&b by then and the competition from other female acts cashing in on the r&b/hip hop hybrid sound. It was probably out of Chante's hand. I remember when Indie.Arie first cut I'm Not My Hair it was without a collabo but she said the label pretty much made her do a version with Akon whom she was not into. I will say this version of Chante's This Time has more bite than the stale album version that I felt was a bit of a letdown as a followup to Old School Loving from A Love Supreme. Don't laugh at my funk
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I remember this.She was pissed | |
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If that was the case, there's not much of a point of Chante doing songs nowadays with Kurupt & Da Brat, who aren't even hot anymore. Those are not the rappers to use if she or her label is trying to get radio airplay. Da Brat was popular in the 1990s. Like other older acts like Charlie Wilson, The Dramatics, Daryl Hall, Morris Day, James Brown, Roger Troutman, The Temptations, etc. Chante has sung hooks on rap songs and she was the teacher in Lil Bow Wow's video. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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One of my favorite movie scenes is Savannah Jackson (Whitney Houston) driving down the freeway listening to the radio playing Chante Moore's "Wey U". | |
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SoulAlive said:
I remember this.She was pissed ![]() [Edited 11/8/15 14:15pm] Don't laugh at my funk
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Chante is a 48 year old black female R&B singer (who looks bloody amazing!). Doesn't make any difference who she works with now. Her radio play days are over. I guess she's like Mimi. She's just doing whatever the hell she wants to do now. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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kitbradley said:
Chante is a 48 year old black female R&B singer (who looks bloody amazing!). Doesn't make any difference who she works with now. Her radio play days are over. I guess she's like Mimi. She's just doing whatever the hell she wants to do now. The same thing was said about Janet Jackson at 49. She has a number 1 album and number 1 song. The same thing was said about Mimi after her breakdown after what was supposedly her worst album Glitter(according to media at that time),yet a lot of knowledgeable music fans loved it. Virgin payed her a lot of money to release her and hen Charmbracelet came and went and people predicted her demise prematurely but she came back strong with Mimi. The point is the music biz is fickle and unpredictable. Chante is probably not gonna get a hit with Kurupt though. Chante is in the Lalah Hathaway group musically but Lalah gets a hell of a lot of respect from fans for being Lalah especially at her live shows. Chante would get that same respect too but she will damn sure lose her audience with that Kurupt shit. ![]() Don't laugh at my funk
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Janet and Mimi have a wider, more diverse audience than Chante. Unlike those two, there is no buzz when Chante releases an album. However, I haven't heard any of Janet's material from her new album played outside of Black A/C radio. A number #1 album today does not mean the same as it did years ago. Tyrese Gibson's last album was #1 on the Pop side. Did he get any airplay on stations outside of Black A/C? Nope. Same with Jill Scott. #1 Pop album. No radio support outside of Black A/C radio. Doesn't take much for an album to debut in the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 200 these days. Just a few thousands copies sold during the first week. It doesn't translate over into widespread airplay. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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