"The Sweetest Taboo" dropped my first year of college. One of my buddies in the dorm had a tape of the album that he used to play at night sometimes. "Smooth Operator" dropped when I was a junior in high school, so we were already fans. Her vocal tones are incredible.
I love that you love Sade. I grew up with her music. This song sounds as good today as it did back in the late 1980s. She is the soundtrack to my life and still going strong, and as you go through her back catalogue you're gonna love her more than ever.
If I'm not mistaken, this is now the 7th Sade reaction you've done on YT Empress, and all I can say is . . . please don't stop!!! 👍 I've been a HUGE Sade Adu fan since I first heard her two big hits Your Love Is King and Smooth Operator off of her excellent 1985 Diamond Life debut album. I had the good fortune to see her live at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater during her 1988 Stronger Than Price tour (still have the concert booklet!) and she sounded exactly as she does on her studio recordings with that unique breathy voice. She's always had a tight band of talented musicians too, and that night was no exception. She had a couple of wardrobe changes and performed barefoot, her white outfit looked like it was spray painted on (8th row center seats, so no binoculars required 😄). A gorgeous artist all-around, and my unrequited love interest who was a trained singer and accompanied me to that concert was equally impressed with Sade's vocal skills. These types of precious memories now mean more to me with each passing year. 🙂
@@dalee72 I'm in the USA and was referring to the release of Diamond Life here, which was in early February of 1985 (ditto for Canada). The album debuted 6 months earlier in the UK, so I should have been more specific with my geographic release dates.
When this song came out it was an instant classic hit. That snare kicking off the groove was so good 🥰 Sade has made some amazing music and her discography is definitely worth listening to. I've been a fan since her first album with Hang On To Your Love. Her sound is intoxicating. Good reaction video Empress.
Love this. She's the epitome of elegance in singing. Never overdoes it, never overadorns a note. I've watched quite a few Sade reactions, and one thing nobody's done is the album version of Smooth Operator, which has a very wry spoken intro, which throws the rest of the song into relief.
So, right now I'm reading a book about the intense, tumultuous love shared by "The Great Gatsby" writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda in the 1920s. This is weirdly a fitting soundtrack song to that story....appropriately jazzy lounge vibe with lovers who are almost TOO into each other.
I love Sade! I've just discovered probably the earliest video of Sade singing, when she was in a Latin Soul/Funk group in London, England called Pride. The song is also called Pride. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/W2T6cRXCPSI/w-d-xo.html
Love your reaction as usual Empress!!😃. I just knew this Sade pick would end up being one of your favorites of hers. As a little kid in the 80s I remember thinking she was so mysterious and intriguing. The sound of her singing voice automatically makes you perk up and listen. …and this song just has that laid back funky sophisticated groove that you can’t help but appreciate. Of course as a kid I don’t think I paid any attention to the meaning of the lyrics so also appreciate those much more as an adult 😂
This was the first single of her second album ''Promise''. This album was waiting after her successful debut album ''Diamond Life'' who it's produced the hits ''Love Is a King'' and particulary the top 10 ''Smooth Operator''. This song reaching the same position has ''Smooth Operator'' in US, peaked n.5 in debut 1986, making her second top 5 and her last top 10 to date. ''The Sweetest Taboo'' was also at the time her longest charting single of the charts, spent 27 weeks in the charts (until ''No Ordinary Love'' who this song spent 28 weeks in Billboard and peaked n.28). At that time, the song make this album a huge evenment and this song propulsed this album to n.1 both in US and UK. Her debut album was her best-selling, but this second album was her most successful albums in terms of singles who this album made a icon during the 80's of the pop and the jazz and selling also very well. She continued to have hit singles and iconic singles depist this wasn't top 10 singles, like with ''Paradise'' (reaching the top 20 in 1988) and ''No Ordinary Love'' (her final top 40 and spent a very long time in the Billboard).
@@EmpressReacts But ''No Ordinary Love'' was a considere a hit, because of her massive airplay and also because of her longevity in the charts (spent 28 weeks in the charts).
***SADE TRIVIA TIME!!!*** ....so, SO sweeeeeeeet, that Sade..... (6:18) ... - ....Empress, you do NOT know how.....HUUUUU-MUNGOUS this tune was! ...Sade's 1st LP, "Diamond Life" did BIG business (in the USA) in 1985, but this was the 1st single from the follow-up, "Promise", released Dec., 1985..... - ....Sade was originally labeled as "Sopisti-Pop", but they....yes, THEY (the BAND is named after the lead Singer) became more Jazz inflected w/ the 2nd LP; The Album hit #1 Feb., 1986, becoming the 1st of SIX (!) Number One LP's (INCLUDING R&B....) - ...The Video was 'broken up' in parts, to tell a Story; Sade is in another Country, dealing w/ an a-busive Dr-ug Dealer Lover; here, she leaves him, and writes "Te Amo" in the dusty window.....The 2nd single, "Is It A Crime", shows the dissolution of the relationship, but he comes to find her.....and she's gone, only to see, "Te Amo", written in the Window..... - ...the tune was a crossover success, going Top Ten Pop, Top 5 R&B / AC, & #1 Jazz.....NOW, I gotta get my Books, to give the charts, God help me..... ; )
This song reaching in fact the same position has ''Smooth Operator'' in the Billboard Hot 100 (n.5 in debut 1986). She have only two n.1 albums in US, this and ''Soldier of Love''.
@@WCD199317 ....I know, Sir Will.....I typed before I can make the change (after I got my Books)....ya gotta remember, Empress doesn't really care about the 'position'. It's about the MEMORY of "being there", when it happened....like, I WAS....
Love the back story on the video concept and plot! I will def pick “Is it a Crime” as my next Sade pick for empress if one of her other Patreons don’t get to it before me!
Heard this song on my weekends from baseball practice teenager years those were the days finally all these years ibsee who is the face behind the voice.
I once thought this was a preview to an upcoming Sade movie. Like you saw cuts of Sade riding a horse in the desert.. or Sade with some mysterious guy who had a gun in the glove compartment of his Jeep and she didn’t look too happy!
🔥🔥Sade is a vibe and will always draw you into it. Got me doing my 1, 2 step. My uncle is the biggest Sade fan( I'm not too far behind). He had a conversation van that was her namesake and a girlfriend that resembled her.
_HELEN FOLASADE ADU JILLY FROM PHILLY I LOVE YOU BOO_ Namechecked by Bey along with your girl Madonna on the “Break My Soul (Queens Remix)”. 🖤 Sade and her band were just reliably good. 🙌🏽 Q. E, just curious: growing up were there a lot of girls named Sade? I ask bc from 2000 til now, I notice girls named Sade. Nice tribute. ✌🏽
Temor is the name of the man in the music video that's her love interest. React to her songs Smooth Operator (short film version), Your Love Is King, Hang On To Your Love, Stronger Than Pride, Never As Good As The First Time, Is It A Crime?, Paradise, Kiss Of Life and Soldier Of Love please.
***SADE (CHART) TRIVIA TIME!!!*** ...I give you, I give you...the sweetest.....CHARTS.....let's go back to March, 1986, Kids.... (cont.) *POP:* 10. These Dreams - Heart 9. Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr 8. Silent Running - Mike + The Mechanics 7. Life In A Northern Town- The Dream Academy 6. When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean 5. ****The Sweetest Taboo*** - Sade 4. Living In America - James Brown 3. Sara - Starship 2. How Will I Know - Whitney Houston 1. Kyrie - Mr. Mister *R&B:* 10. What You Been Missin' - Starpoint 9. When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean 8. Digital Display - Ready For The World 7. Let Me Be The One - 5 Star 6. Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie 5. Do Me Baby - Meli'sa Morgan 4. Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr 3. ****The Sweetest Taboo*** - Sade 2. Go Home - Stevie Wonder 1. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends
Sade was a model then a relatively successful designer in the UK before fronting the band named after her. With a background like that, her standout style is definitely a product of her own making. She’s cool without even trying to be. There have been a lot of interpretation to the meaning of this song. With euphemisms like “everyday is Christmas and every night is New Year’s Eve” and “Will you keep on bringing out the best in me,” it makes clear that “the sweetest taboo”she is speaking of is female orgasm. Back in those days that was a bigger taboo than it is today. Sade used euphemisms in a lot of their early work. Their US debut single “your love is king” was heavy on the euphemism but also very direct where she proclaimed “I’m coming.” 😂 The early and mid 80’s were altogether very heavy on this subtle boundary pushing when it came to sexuality. Then Madonna came along and knocked all boundaries out of place. Madonna’s success made her a blueprint for the over sexualization we see in today’s music. For better or worse. Sade is one of my favorite artists. She makes timeless music with a voice that’s unlike anything else out there.
@@EmpressReacts The Brits make everything sound sophisticated. 😂. There has been a lot of debate about whether this song is about heroin or drug use in general. Some say it’s about extramarital affair. There has been so many theories. The only taboo that matches up perfectly with all the innuendo and euphemism without an out of place or throwaway lyric is female orgasm. The good thing about these subtle allusions is that it allows us to interpret the lyrics into something that’s meaningful to us. I’ve always interpreted this as being about infatuation or having a crush on someone doing better than you in life. That’s not exactly taboo, but it always takes me exactly where the music was meant to take me. That’s the great thing about these types of songs. They mean whatever you want them to mean.
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Anything from Sade was a hit❤
I love pretty much all her singles. This is great and timeless. Can't believe its almost 40 years old.
SADE is pure class act. Silky smooth, Stylish, great singer since 1985! I love her!
QUEEN SADE ADU / NUMBER ONE OF SMOOTH SOUL / UNIQUE / A GODDESS WITH THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL ...
"The Sweetest Taboo" dropped my first year of college. One of my buddies in the dorm had a tape of the album that he used to play at night sometimes. "Smooth Operator" dropped when I was a junior in high school, so we were already fans. Her vocal tones are incredible.
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If you haven't heard Is It A Crime, check it out. It's stunning.
I love your reaction to Sade....her voice is so sultry and distinctive .. .her band is awesome too.❤
💯💯💯
She blew me away the first time I heard her. She hits as hard now as she did when her first album was released. Thanks for the share E!!!
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Sade is my favorite singer of all time.... although technically Sade is a band so l should say my favorite band of all time!
You should do her video for LOVE IS STRONGER THAN PRIDE
Yeah, one of the greatest. Forever classic music.
💯💯
@@EmpressReacts ❤️
Her voice is like no other! Pure ASMR lol
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I love that you love Sade. I grew up with her music. This song sounds as good today as it did back in the late 1980s. She is the soundtrack to my life and still going strong, and as you go through her back catalogue you're gonna love her more than ever.
My Baby Sister named her Daughter Pia Sade’… Giving Sade’ a Name Sake❤️
Aw so cute!
If I'm not mistaken, this is now the 7th Sade reaction you've done on YT Empress, and all I can say is . . . please don't stop!!! 👍 I've been a HUGE Sade Adu fan since I first heard her two big hits Your Love Is King and Smooth Operator off of her excellent 1985 Diamond Life debut album. I had the good fortune to see her live at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater during her 1988 Stronger Than Price tour (still have the concert booklet!) and she sounded exactly as she does on her studio recordings with that unique breathy voice. She's always had a tight band of talented musicians too, and that night was no exception. She had a couple of wardrobe changes and performed barefoot, her white outfit looked like it was spray painted on (8th row center seats, so no binoculars required 😄). A gorgeous artist all-around, and my unrequited love interest who was a trained singer and accompanied me to that concert was equally impressed with Sade's vocal skills. These types of precious memories now mean more to me with each passing year. 🙂
Diamond Life was released on July 14th 1984. 😘 ❤
Dang not unrequited love 😢 and can't believe I reacted to that many of her songs
@@dalee72 I'm in the USA and was referring to the release of Diamond Life here, which was in early February of 1985 (ditto for Canada). The album debuted 6 months earlier in the UK, so I should have been more specific with my geographic release dates.
@@craigcraigster4999 OK, you're right.
i am calling timeout! my brain can not process her hottness at my age!
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Queen of Sophisti-pop 🔥
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This band invented “Trip Hop”. Inventing a genre, that’s legendary status.
Yessss Sade🔥🔥🙌🏾
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My favorite song
This song is the JAM, what a vibe. Pure class. Must have been so fun to play, backing Sade onstage. Doesn't hurt that she's so fine, either.
sade Adu is like Diana Ross the original Blueprint of class Beauty and distinctive voices ❤
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When this song came out it was an instant classic hit. That snare kicking off the groove was so good 🥰
Sade has made some amazing music and her discography is definitely worth listening to. I've been a fan since her first album with Hang On To Your Love. Her sound is intoxicating. Good reaction video Empress.
Thanks
Sade is the sh&t til this day🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I loveee herr!!!
You could tell when a Sade song was on the radio .. look around, people undoing the top button of their shirt ..
😂
You need her best of album in your catalog
I was 2, almost 3 when this came out, so it’s just always been part of my consciousness.
Is It a Crime is my absolute favorite from her.
Gotta hear that one‼️
Love this. She's the epitome of elegance in singing. Never overdoes it, never overadorns a note. I've watched quite a few Sade reactions, and one thing nobody's done is the album version of Smooth Operator, which has a very wry spoken intro, which throws the rest of the song into relief.
So, right now I'm reading a book about the intense, tumultuous love shared by "The Great Gatsby" writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda in the 1920s.
This is weirdly a fitting soundtrack song to that story....appropriately jazzy lounge vibe with lovers who are almost TOO into each other.
Interesting ‼️
Love this song, so chilled and atmospheric Xx
Pure sophistication and style aka Sade
😎🙏
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One of my all time favorite songs!🙌🏽
I love Sade! I've just discovered probably the earliest video of Sade singing, when she was in a Latin Soul/Funk group in London, England called Pride. The song is also called Pride. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/W2T6cRXCPSI/w-d-xo.html
I love me some Sade. Another good song and video to check out by her is Never As Good As the First Time. The video was filmed in black-and-white.
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One reason why this band are legends. They invented a new genre “Trip Hop”
Whoa! They’re responsible for inventing trip hop
Love your reaction as usual Empress!!😃. I just knew this Sade pick would end up being one of your favorites of hers. As a little kid in the 80s I remember thinking she was so mysterious and intriguing. The sound of her singing voice automatically makes you perk up and listen. …and this song just has that laid back funky sophisticated groove that you can’t help but appreciate. Of course as a kid I don’t think I paid any attention to the meaning of the lyrics so also appreciate those much more as an adult 😂
🔥🔥🔥all around
Empress if Sade comes to ATL.. take Pressure and go see her.. you'll never forget it.
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This was the first single of her second album ''Promise''. This album was waiting after her successful debut album ''Diamond Life'' who it's produced the hits ''Love Is a King'' and particulary the top 10 ''Smooth Operator''. This song reaching the same position has ''Smooth Operator'' in US, peaked n.5 in debut 1986, making her second top 5 and her last top 10 to date. ''The Sweetest Taboo'' was also at the time her longest charting single of the charts, spent 27 weeks in the charts (until ''No Ordinary Love'' who this song spent 28 weeks in Billboard and peaked n.28).
At that time, the song make this album a huge evenment and this song propulsed this album to n.1 both in US and UK. Her debut album was her best-selling, but this second album was her most successful albums in terms of singles who this album made a icon during the 80's of the pop and the jazz and selling also very well.
She continued to have hit singles and iconic singles depist this wasn't top 10 singles, like with ''Paradise'' (reaching the top 20 in 1988) and ''No Ordinary Love'' (her final top 40 and spent a very long time in the Billboard).
No way‼️‼️‼️No Ordinary Love wasn't Top 10😢
@@EmpressReacts But ''No Ordinary Love'' was a considere a hit, because of her massive airplay and also because of her longevity in the charts (spent 28 weeks in the charts).
***SADE TRIVIA TIME!!!*** ....so, SO sweeeeeeeet, that Sade..... (6:18) ...
- ....Empress, you do NOT know how.....HUUUUU-MUNGOUS this tune was! ...Sade's 1st LP, "Diamond Life" did BIG business (in the USA) in 1985, but this was the 1st single from the follow-up, "Promise", released Dec., 1985.....
- ....Sade was originally labeled as "Sopisti-Pop", but they....yes, THEY (the BAND is named after the lead Singer) became more Jazz inflected w/ the 2nd LP; The Album hit #1 Feb., 1986, becoming the 1st of SIX (!) Number One LP's (INCLUDING R&B....)
- ...The Video was 'broken up' in parts, to tell a Story; Sade is in another Country, dealing w/ an a-busive Dr-ug Dealer Lover; here, she leaves him, and writes "Te Amo" in the dusty window.....The 2nd single, "Is It A Crime", shows the dissolution of the relationship, but he comes to find her.....and she's gone, only to see, "Te Amo", written in the Window.....
- ...the tune was a crossover success, going Top Ten Pop, Top 5 R&B / AC, & #1 Jazz.....NOW, I gotta get my Books, to give the charts, God help me..... ; )
This song reaching in fact the same position has ''Smooth Operator'' in the Billboard Hot 100 (n.5 in debut 1986). She have only two n.1 albums in US, this and ''Soldier of Love''.
@@WCD199317 ....I know, Sir Will.....I typed before I can make the change (after I got my Books)....ya gotta remember, Empress doesn't really care about the 'position'. It's about the MEMORY of "being there", when it happened....like, I WAS....
Love the back story on the video concept and plot! I will def pick “Is it a Crime” as my next Sade pick for empress if one of her other Patreons don’t get to it before me!
@@royg9080 ...ding, ding DING... ; )
Aw cool about the video
Heard this song on my weekends from baseball practice teenager years those were the days finally all these years ibsee who is the face behind the voice.
Sweetest Taboo is my favorite song from Sade.
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Reacting to Sade got my subscription. She’s the best artist ever IMO
Thanks for the sub
I once thought this was a preview to an upcoming Sade movie. Like you saw cuts of Sade riding a horse in the desert.. or Sade with some mysterious guy who had a gun in the glove compartment of his Jeep and she didn’t look too happy!
....that's in the Video, "Is It A Crime"; THAT, was supposed to be the 1st single, and got pushed back, for "Sweetest..." .....good eye....
@@RBS_ Is that the video where the mysterious guy manhandles Sade at the bar?
@@edwardhannah ....yep, and he smudged Sade's LIPSTICK! ....da BASTID! ...ha-HAA!
I’ll have to pick that Sade song/video next for Empress! 😊.
🤣I can see that
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Awesome react! You have to follow this with Is It A Crime as it directly follows this video and completed the story shown.
🔥🔥Sade is a vibe and will always draw you into it. Got me doing my 1, 2 step. My uncle is the biggest Sade fan( I'm not too far behind). He had a conversation van that was her namesake and a girlfriend that resembled her.
😂he def a fan
@@EmpressReacts 🤣💯
Never As Good As The First Time, Is It A Crime.. list goes on
Love your reaction Empress! SADE is awesome and so is her band! I don't think she has sung a bad song.
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Thank you ma'am.
Most welcome 😊
Her first 5 albums are amazing.
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(Her voice) was like smooth velvet.. She epitomised why the 1980s were the greatest era for music IMHO 🙌😍❤️
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Wrong. The band Sade were one of the exceptions to rule more like.
excellent video greetings from 🇺🇾🤪
Hello 👋
_HELEN FOLASADE ADU JILLY FROM PHILLY I LOVE YOU BOO_
Namechecked by Bey along with your girl Madonna on the “Break My Soul (Queens Remix)”. 🖤
Sade and her band were just reliably good. 🙌🏽 Q. E, just curious: growing up were there a lot of girls named Sade? I ask bc from 2000 til now, I notice girls named Sade. Nice tribute. ✌🏽
Not where I'm from. This is the only Sade I've ever heard of
Fun fact: Sade Adu is the singer and centerpiece...SADE is the whole band, which has always been compromised of exceptional musicians!
Oh wow!☺️
Temor is the name of the man in the music video that's her love interest.
React to her songs Smooth Operator (short film version), Your Love Is King, Hang On To Your Love, Stronger Than Pride, Never As Good As The First Time, Is It A Crime?, Paradise, Kiss Of Life and Soldier Of Love please.
Thanks,!
Another great video Empress!
Thank you! 🤗
***SADE (CHART) TRIVIA TIME!!!*** ...I give you, I give you...the sweetest.....CHARTS.....let's go back to March, 1986, Kids.... (cont.)
*POP:*
10. These Dreams - Heart
9. Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
8. Silent Running - Mike + The Mechanics
7. Life In A Northern Town- The Dream Academy
6. When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean
5. ****The Sweetest Taboo*** - Sade
4. Living In America - James Brown
3. Sara - Starship
2. How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
1. Kyrie - Mr. Mister
*R&B:*
10. What You Been Missin' - Starpoint
9. When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean
8. Digital Display - Ready For The World
7. Let Me Be The One - 5 Star
6. Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
5. Do Me Baby - Meli'sa Morgan
4. Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
3. ****The Sweetest Taboo*** - Sade
2. Go Home - Stevie Wonder
1. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends
I knew you would come through with the charts! 😊.
@@royg9080 ....glad ya appreciated it, 'cause it's a BOOGER pullin' these out of Storage!! ...ha-HAAA!!
I think I've heard 4 of the pop and maybe 3 of the rnb
Mmm. They only have a handful of albums but this would be a great deep dive artist. Their deep cuts are 🔥
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Sade was a model then a relatively successful designer in the UK before fronting the band named after her. With a background like that, her standout style is definitely a product of her own making. She’s cool without even trying to be.
There have been a lot of interpretation to the meaning of this song. With euphemisms like “everyday is Christmas and every night is New Year’s Eve” and “Will you keep on bringing out the best in me,” it makes clear that “the sweetest taboo”she is speaking of is female orgasm. Back in those days that was a bigger taboo than it is today.
Sade used euphemisms in a lot of their early work. Their US debut single “your love is king” was heavy on the euphemism but also very direct where she proclaimed “I’m coming.” 😂 The early and mid 80’s were altogether very heavy on this subtle boundary pushing when it came to sexuality. Then Madonna came along and knocked all boundaries out of place. Madonna’s success made her a blueprint for the over sexualization we see in today’s music. For better or worse.
Sade is one of my favorite artists. She makes timeless music with a voice that’s unlike anything else out there.
Oh wow!!! Those euphemism went over my head! 😂😂😂I guess because the sound is so sophisticated
@@EmpressReacts The Brits make everything sound sophisticated. 😂. There has been a lot of debate about whether this song is about heroin or drug use in general. Some say it’s about extramarital affair. There has been so many theories. The only taboo that matches up perfectly with all the innuendo and euphemism without an out of place or throwaway lyric is female orgasm.
The good thing about these subtle allusions is that it allows us to interpret the lyrics into something that’s meaningful to us. I’ve always interpreted this as being about infatuation or having a crush on someone doing better than you in life. That’s not exactly taboo, but it always takes me exactly where the music was meant to take me. That’s the great thing about these types of songs. They mean whatever you want them to mean.
IS IT A CRIME, YOU'RE NOT THE MAN.
Try, "never as good as the first time". A faster tempo than most of their stuff, but good.
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On top of that drum beat being baaad! Sade is too fine…😅