Video: Sade, “Soldier of Love (Live with BBC’s Jonathan Ross)”
No, we cannot get enough of posting these live Sade jams. However this one is special for two reasons: 1. it’s the first time Sade has been on British television in ten years (crazy) 2. Have you ever seen Jonathan Ross? He kind of looks like a Saturday Night Live caricature of a very traditionally Anglo-Saxon Londoner. Also, Sade looks banging (duh).
Video: Sade on Wanda Sykes’ Show
SADE WE ALREADY LOVE YOU! We don’t need you to show us your humorous side and fuel the fire of our obsession. Shoe game crazy, whip game crazy, we can’t take it! But wait… Wanda Sykes has a show? Also is she saying CHAR-DE? Whatever we’re buggin because Sade just turned our world upside down. Also, we’re NOT waiting until 2020 for a new album. Just be forewarned: if Sade hosts SNL we’re going to lose our shit. –Judnick Mayard (via Concrete Loop)
Video: Sade Live on David Letterman
Okay, sorry but we can’t post Sade’s 106 performance because we aren’t sure Roczi & Terence are feeling it enough for us. Not sure Dave Letterman is either but he has the advantage of always looking like he’s mocking everyone. Sade, you are a goddess.
Re-Issue: SADE
Each week, FADER Media Style Director Chioma Nnadi will comment on the throwback style and fashion of a soul artist. Today’s Re-Issue is SADE, to commemorate her album dropping.
Sade’s message as a style icon has always been consistent: smooth, understated sexy with an unflinching dedication to a signature look. She rarely goes without a lick of rouge on her lips and her hair is always pulled back, and when her silhouette emerges from the smoke in “Soldier of Love,” the first words that spring to mind are, Damn! This chick is well preserved!! Clearly Sade has not made a pact with the devil, but she did figure out what worked for her fashion-wise early on in her career—long skirts, flamenco flourishes, a cropped top or stunning backless body suit, and every once in a while she still goes hard with a tux. Shape-shifting, stylist-having songstresses of our time, take note. -Chioma Nnadi
Video: We Need Raekwon and Sade to Get Together Immediately.
The legend Sade recently said that she definitely messes with Raekwon’s new album, which inspired the Wu-Tang banga to record a “cover” of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed” and dedicate it to her. What needs to happen now is, these two need to get together and make amazing musically gifted children, if only because she inspires Rae to do totally weird/amazing shit like this video. (via Nahright)
Sade MP3 Megapost
THREE NEW SADE TRACKS. At the start of this crazy day we literally thought to ourselves, Jesus take the wheel, in the abstract non-denominational sense of course. LOOKS LIKE SADE CAN READ MINDS.
Stream: Sade, “Moon and Sky”
Stream: Sade, “Skin”
Stream: Sade, “In Another Time”
Dedication: John Edwards, Father
John Edwards, you’re so stupid that you’re a GENIUS! Even though you were not slick enough to cheat on your wife with an attractive woman or keep your scallywag quiet, we applaud you. You were obviously paying attention to the Tiger Woods fiasco and have learned the art of deflection. Did you take a hint from Mark McGwire, you Wile E. Coyote, you? In the midst of an international crisis you saw fit to finally admit what we already knew: YOU ARE THE FATHER! Guess what: you’re not even in the top ten news stories on CNN! No snarky headlines, just a quick blurb. You didn’t even make the front page of the NY Post and they’re easy. (Shout out to Tiger!) In any case, you are one smooth operator and have set a whole new standard for douche bags in 2010. You did do one thing right: you showed us that America still cares about real issues rather than trivial interests such as American Idol or the trysts of unattractive people. We see you Johnny boy. This one here is for you! -Judnik Mayard
Album Preview: Sade’s “Soldier of Love”
In a documentary Sade made about the recording of her new album, Soldier of Love, Sade states, “I am more capable NOW than I used to be.” More capable now? Really? More capable than No Ordinary Love or Paradise? Those were my thoughts Wednesday night at a New York listening for her upcoming February 9th release. But after listening to Soldier of Love in full, I began to believe that statement was true. Keep in mind, I was already probably way too excited about her first album in eight years, but after hearing it, I’m only more excited to buy this—YES, BUY THIS—and have it on full repeat. Eight-year hiatus and that woman still looks just as beautiful and sounds just as amazingly soothing as she always has (clearly her and Maxwell are sipping on the same sizzurp that they should share with Lauryn Hill). From the album’s first cut, “The Moon and the Sky,” to her ode to fatherhood, “Babyfather,” to the final track “The Safest Place,” Sade was unfailingly entrancing. The same smooth cadences and the soul calming sound that only Sade can capture? Yes. This woman has RE-ARRIVED. Another shocker in the short documentary was that the title track, and my current over played tune, “Soldier of Love,” wasn’t even going to be included on the album. Thank goodness they changed their minds. Check our notes from the session and a track-by-track breakdown after the jump. -Kristen Frasier
CYRIOUSLY: English Muffin Sex
I won’t even lie to you (readers), a few minutes ago I thought to myself…’Cyrus, what would make for a dope posting on Suite903.com?’ I thought about it for a second…..Corinne Bailey Rae getting ready to drop next year is pretty illy. But then again, Amy Winehouse’s “VH1 Behind The Music”-type return to the “Microphone” (c) Slaughterhouse is a must-write-about-before-holiday shopping thought. But even with the Wikipedia Firefox tab on deck to my right for reference purposes, I can’t help but remind myself of Sade pushing a “Desperate Housewives” move and stuntin’ on the R&B genre with her own dopeness in the next few months to come….it is now a no-brainer….
“English Muffin Sex”
Stream: Sade, “Soldier of Love” MP3
Absurd, really, how long we’ve been waiting for Ms. Lovers Rock to return to the game. For this track off her first album in a decade, out in February 2010, all the subtleties of her voice come rushing back—it’s amazing how the tiniest flick of intonation can infer the deepest of emotion. It’s classic Sade but nothing about it sounds dated, the beats accommodating today’s passion for low-end without getting Swizz Beats-y with it—a minimal backdrop for a woman who doesn’t have to bloviate to say so, so much. Also: peep that album artwork!
Stream: Sade, “Soldier of Love”
