Chuck is Berry's first album in 38 years to consist of mainly new material, since his 1979 record Rockit.

The tune is an upbeat rock and roll song about a teenager wanting to do all the things that grownups do.

critic Daniel Sylvester believed the songs sounded familiar but still distinct from one another, as "Berry covers a lot of musical ground on Chuck, and most importantly, reveals just how much fun he was still having at the end of his storied life.

[9] Writing for Vice, Robert Christgau regarded Chuck as "both a summation [Berry] put his all into and a little something he might have followed up if he hadn't up and died at 90".

Christgau called the musician "mischievous and horny and locked in", showcasing "undiminished guitar" playing, strong vocals, and shrewd lyrics on "eight well-crafted new ones and two savvy covers that indicate he's learned a few things—the warm songs to the long-suffering wife he married in 1948 and the progeny who chime in like they've earned it have the kind of detail he always reserved for his fictions, musical and otherwise.