u/ColdBabolti

I've been trying for days to mix this vocals for a brazilian funk song I'm putting together for fun, but I can't manage to get them to sound as Anitta does in São Paulo. I wonder if you may have some answers on this cause its been driving me crazy hahah

1. Is it just one vocal take in the middle or does it have L/R takes? I currently have a high pitched vocal lead in the middle and two low pitched (L/R) takes at really really low volume
2. I'm not so sure about the way the reference is EQ'd, my ear tells me it has a HP around 400hz and a LP around 7k-8k (I don't trust my ears that much since I'm still learning) but I feel like the engineer boosted it a bit around 1khz-2khz
3. Should I sidechain some saturation/distorsion and leave the vocal dry? Or should that go inserted directly?
4. How much volume should I put into the lead? I feel like its always too loud or too soft compared to the rest drums and the melody, I haven't found that sweet spot yet. Whats a good tip for finding this sweet spot like in this reference song?
5. I did a slap delay (song is 120bpm so I went for 100ms) and a really short plate reverb (decay 0.9s) with some 20ms pre-delay, do you think its different on this song reference?

P.D: I'm mixing with Shure SRH440 headphones since I don't have audio monitors yet, leaving it here in case its relevant to the question

Thank you if you can throw me a bone on this one!