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"No Ordinary Love" is a song by English band Sade, released in September 1992 by Epic Records as the lead single and opening track from their fourth studio album, Love Deluxe (1992). The song is written by lead singer Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman , and was a success in Europe and New Zealand.
The Ultimate Collection debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 15,184 copies, becoming Sade's seventh top-10 album in the United Kingdom. [8] In the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at number seven with 38,000 copies sold in its first week, earning the band their ninth consecutive top-10 album ...
"Smooth Operator" is about a fashionable con-man who moves within high social circles. He is popular with women and breaks many hearts. The lyrics "Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male / Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale" [6] imply that he also uses women to obtain his income.
The four-piece group, comprised of Sade, Paul Denman, Stuart Matthewman and Andrew Hale, broke out with their 1984 top 10 hit “Your Love Is King,” off their debut album Diamond Life.
The album's content was written by the group Sade and the production was handled by Robin Millar. Fifteen songs were recorded. The album contained a variety of musical elements including soul, jazz and sophisti-pop, mostly with love lyrics. The album spawned four singles, including "Your Love Is King" and "Smooth Operator".
Directed by Brian Ward, the music promo for the single is the follow-up to the previous video for The Sweetest Taboo featuring Sade's former lover as he walks down a street in New York. Whilst Sade sings the song in a jazz lounge, both reminisce how the relationship ended up becoming violent and abusive.
Sade's moving song "Young Lion" is featured, and it's a direct message to her son who came out as trans in 2016. "Young man/ It's been so heavy for you/ You must have felt so alone," she sings to ...
In a 2017 review, Justin Chadwick from Albumism called the song "wonderful", naming it one of "their most evocative and enduring love songs to date". [10] In 2010, The Daily Vault's Mark Millan said that it "however, leaves nothing to chance as it is the kind of simple but heartfelt love song that Sade is so good at producing."