Haven please send to all mankind understanding and peace of mind. But if it’s not asking too much, please send me someone to love. ~ from Please Send Me Someone to Love, Sade.

  This is what Sade is singing for, maybe also what I am asking for. The first word came to my mind when I listen to Sade is “sophisticated”, I don’t know how to translate this word politically correctly to Chinese, so I try to do my best to keep all these words in English.

  I think Sade started singing in early ’90. I still remember my days were full of Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, or NKOTB at that time. I was way too young to understand Sade and her songs. Physically I am still too young for Sade today, but I guess I really have an old old soul in my body. The first time I really recognized her was the song “Please Send Me Someone to Love” in movie Philadelphia. I was so touched by the words and her voice that I went to search for her album immediately. I was lucky that there was a collection of Sade just published – The Best of Sade.

  The stories in Sade’s songs are really clichés, but interpreted by Sade’s smooth voice, they brought some new feelings. Most of the songs are talking about love, love, and love. Some are happy, some are sad, but they are all something about love. A lot of lyrics are like talking to someone else, or like sharing past experiences with someone who is newly in love. But when listening to it in midnight, I often got the feelings that these songs are the words women murmuring to themselves in midnight. After a hard day faced everything (including the lover), stripped away the self- protection, looked into herself in the mirror, these are the words for herself no matter good or bad.

  The magic of Sade’s songs are not only about words, but also her voice. Quoting some lyrics here won’t make you feel the same way as I do, but I guess that’s the only thing I can do here. First time playing this album I realized I already knew a lot of songs in it. In fact, Sade’s songs are popular requests, most of them have been heard on the radio or in a small café somewhere. Except “Please Send Me Someone to Love”, “Smooth Operator” should be the most popular or the most often heard song. The story is basically talking about a man, who is a lover boy, “always making hearts ache”. He is a smooth operator, whose love is for sale. Although the song is sung in a light melody, but is still stinging. Another song “Hang On to Your Love” is a song praising that love is the greatest thing, so everyone should hang on to his/her love. Although “it’s so easy to walk out on love, but you gotta hold on longer if you want your love to grow.” So we don’t really need to forward a lot of silly emails(sorry for calling these emails silly, but I just don’t like them.), I think we already learned the theories about love in love songs. I mentioned that I felt Sade’s songs were the murmur of women, and I think you will agree with me when you hear the songs like “Love is Stronger Than Pride”, “The Sweetest Taboo”, and “No Ordinary Love”. At least the song writers do understand the hearts (or maybe minds) of women today, and they talked about the insecurity, struggling and the desire of being loved in these songs.

I always wondering why and how the TV series like “Sex and the City” or the movie Bridget Jones’ Diary are so popular, especially to modern single women. Maybe the answers are here in Sade’s songs, because they are all the same thing. Maybe we women who are independent, are still looking for something. And most of the people think this something is LOVE. (Oops! Maybe not marriage!)

  I told myself quite often not to analysis “love”, because I am afraid the more I use my head (those gray cells) to think about love, the harder would I believe in love (or fall in love). But I guess I just can’t help it. Love is an interesting thing, and it really makes people dizzy! And I better stop here, ‘cause I got a feeling that I revealed too much of myself..

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