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FREAK LIKE ME ALBUM INFO

Artist: Adina Howard
Album: Freak Like Me
Release Date: 30 Nov 1994

"Freak like Me" is the first single from Adina Howard's 1995 Rhythm and blues|R&B debut album ''Do You Wanna Ride?''. Like Howard's image, the song can be best described as hypersexual. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was RIAA certification|certified Gold single|platinum by the RIAA.

The song's chorus is a lyrical interpolation (music)|interpolation of the verses found in Bootsy Collins' "I'd Rather Be With You". While the lyrics in "Freak like Me"'s chorus are different from the Bootsy Collins song, they are sung in identical melody. The song's drum beat is Sampling (music)|sampled from Sly & the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song." The original music video was directed by Hype Williams. The song returned to the public conscience when covered by British pop group Sugababes in a production by Richard X.

The song and her hypersexual image is considered groundbreaking in the U.S. R&B/Hip-Hop scene, it portrayed female hip-hop singers more aggressive rather than coy in their sexuality, in a manner that was feminine unlike the female hip-hop artists of before who dressed in men's apparel to express their aggressive image (i.e. Salt-N-Pepa). This new, hypersexual image would pave the way for upcoming R&B/Hip-Hop female artists like Foxy Brown (rapper)| Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim; in addition, it allowed ot

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