Sade Showcases Live Dance In "Love Is Found"

Adding some smoothness to the sweaty summer heat, English soul/R&B band Sade issues the music video for "Love Is Found," one of four previously unreleased tracks featured on her new two-disc project, "The Ultimate Collection," which is in stores now. The clip features footage of Sade and the band on stage from their current "Soldier of Love" international tour, and it's a sleek and sexy clip shot during one of the band's live shows. After all, as choreographed silhouettes dance across a screen in the background.
The band is named after their British Nigerian lead vocalist, Sade Adu, who has been in the game for over two decades and she still keeps the quality music coming. Her unreleased new tune, "Love Is Found," is a mid-tempo electronic number with a slight air of menace about it. "Love is Found" takes its time to build as R&B songstress Sade coos over rising strings for the first minute or so. It then launches into a huge tune that revolves around snarling guitars, a thick bass line, and her vocal changes. If you were looking for a reason to pick up "The Ultimate Collection," this is it.
"Love is Found" isn't merely one of four previously unreleased cuts that made Sade's recently released album. The track also happens to be the best unreleased cut that made the compilation. Frontwoman Sade's vocals are, as always, intoxicating as she drifts above the surging sound of strings and bass, all of which erupt once the track hits its stride. And instead of going over the top with the visual accompaniment, which could have easily happened given the soundtrack-ready composition, Sade keeps its relatively simple here.
Presented in black and white, the Sophie Mueller-directed live performance video showcases Sade and her full band in action as shadow-like figures dance on the screen behind them like faceless giants, as the band tears up the stage with some help from an interpretive dance team, who keep the visual element engaging but never to the point of absurdity. Sade strikes quite the gamine pose and is dressed head to toe in black with flats, and while the fashion may have changed, she retains her aura of regality, somehow existing in a place slightly elevated from the rest of us mere mortals. Glamorous frontwoman proves she is indeed a smooth operator and even does some fancy foot-shuffling of her own at the end.

Sade Is One Hot Mama In Her "Babyfather" Video

After a decade of silence, the English soul and R&B group Sade is back, and have a new music video debuted to support their latest second single "Babyfather," from Sade's comeback sixth platinum plus studio album, "Soldier of Love." Released in February this year, the album is a chart topper. Filled with ten new materials, it ruled Billboard Hot 200 for three consecutive weeks. "I've had my ups and downs in the years between these albums. That's partly why I'm able to write songs that people in some way can hear. I express feelings, real feelings," Sade commented on her songwriting. Everyone loves Sade! She's such an incredible talent. In her latest video, she shows that she not only has the vocal chops, but the presence on screen to make things happen.
In this reggae-flavored number, band's frontwoman Sade Adu sings of a male figure who can be the father of a woman's child and a strong male role model, without necessary being a lifemate. Adu told People that "Babyfather" is "about how great it is to be a parent, what a great honor and privilege that is, and what a terrible thing that is to waste. As long as you feel good about yourself, you can be a good parent, and then it becomes an endless fruitful cycle," she says. As for the sound of the new song, "I wanted it to sound quite rough and scrappy, not too honed," says the 51-year-old Grammy-winning singer. "The beginning," says Sade, "feels like the ice cream van coming down the street."
The music video, which features people wearing bright-colored outfits and initially slaps the viewer in the face with such vibrant colors in a great way, is directed by Sophie Muller, who also took the picture for the single's cover art and Beyoncé's "Deja Vu" video. It's amazing how Sade just do things on their own time, and it features Adu takes on the role of a pure housewife, who is doing her daily household chores from cooking to washing dishes to doing the laundry in what seems to be a neighborhood of peace. The video is so clean and reminds us that there can still be good in the world, seriously as corny as that sounds. Anyway, the dub/reggae sounds on here are a welcome change of pace from the darker, stark elements of Soldier of Love's eponymous single.