Like Sugar Lyrics – Chaka Khan

Song Facts:

• Genre: Funk, Soul
• Featured Artists: None
• Lyricists: Chaka Khan
• Composers: Chaka Khan
• Soundtrack: Featured in the soundtrack of "Beautiful Game."

Annotations and Meaning:

Chaka Khan's "Like Sugar" will be an explosive funk manifesto on rhythm and dance, as funk is supposed to be. This gives a mental image of the song as a metaphor for sugar, as in how sweet the grooves might be.

For example, in the verse, "It's like sugar, so sweet, good enough to eat, when you feel the funky beat, get up on yo' feet," one directly relates the happiness and pleasure of music to the sweetness of sugar, suggesting that just as sugar is something one cannot resist, so also does the funky beat of the song offer something equally irresistible and sweet. This is an open invitation, allowing one to feel the urge to dance when one feels the beat, underlining the instinctive and natural reaction to the funky music genre known for very solid rhythms that get people going.

In total, the whole verse is Chaka's exhortation to dance and bond with others in musical elation: "Woah, what a state that I'm in, Everybody here is dancing, All I wanna do is get your body next to mine". This line of the lyric underscores the fact that dancing together builds a relationship of both body and soul.

"It's like su—, it's like su—" rhythmically broke the speaking of "sugar," providing an accented pause in pronunciation between the "s" and the "g." It piles onto a funky effect of the song, this sense. This underscores the fact that such a stylistic feature emphasizes the fun and spontaneous activity of funk music.