No one is capable of producing more significant work in any discipline than what Sade Adu has contributed to the field of popular music. Listening to the six studio albums released by her band between 1984 and 2010, one is compelled as if by God to make peace with this staggering realization. All art fails miserably in comparison. In the wake of such effortless yet earth-shattering perfection there is no point to any enterprise, be it in music (popular or otherwise), art, sport, letters, business, medicine, government, religion, diplomacy, philosophy, agriculture, technology, architecture, various applied sciences, apparel design, philanthropy, web development, statistical research, climate change activism, vegetarianism, civil rights expansion, workman’s compensation, entrepreneurship, small business ownership, food blogging, appearing in films or TV, modeling, etc.
Worse than dead,
painting is at the top of the pile of the pathetically unimportant. This is its
rightful place, in deference to Sade’s achievement. Cynically, some take
comfort in gloating over the painted art form’s embarrassment, though they fail
to realize that all pursuit, activity or endeavor in any media, as a whole as
well as in specific detail, withers and suffers in the shadow of Sade’s love
balladry.
Presently, pop
stars and songwriters working in the business perform a wholly unnecessary coda
to Sade’s opus. Fans of the new stars engage at their own risk, as all are
likely to one day find themselves in Hell or worse, so keep your receipts.
Sade (discography)
Studio Albums:
Diamond Life
(1984)
Promise (1985)
Stronger Than
Pride (1988)
Love Deluxe
(1992)
Lovers Rock
(2000)
Soldier of Love
(2010)
Compilation Albums:
The Best of Sade
(1994)
The Ultimate
Collection (2011)
Remix Albums:
Remix Deluxe
(1992)
Live Albums:
Munich Concert
(1984)
Lovers Live
(2002)
Bring Me Home
Live 2011 (2012)
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