●●●●● ●●●● Only one song, No Ordinary Love, got into the Top 20 charts(number14); towards the end of last year, The Best of Sade was released whose sales again are far less than those of her first two albums So, why have Sade's UK fans deserted her? Between her was a gap of four years. British music fans have very shor ere third album Stronger Than Pride(1988) and Love Deluxe, there memories, and four years without releasing even a single is not the best way to keep yourself popular and in the charts Then there is her music. Her style is restrained and understated, something that the UK white rock establishment has always found difficult to distinguish from blandness. It suited perfectly the affluent and sty lish 80s but is now clearly out of fashion in the hard, rap-dominated 90s
Only one song, No Ordinary Love, got into the Top 20 charts (number14); towards the end of last year, The Best of Sade was released, whose sales, again, are far less than those of her first two albums. So, why have Sade’s UK fans deserted her? Between her third album Stronger Than Pride (1988) and Love Deluxe, there was a gap of four years. British music fans have very short memories, and four years without releasing even a single is not the best way to keep yourself popular and in the charts. Then there is her music. Her style is restrained and understated, something that the UK white rock establishment has always found difficult to distinguish from blandness. It suited perfectly the affluent and stylish 80s but is now clearly out of fashion in the hard, rap-dominated 90s. All That’s Happening in the Music World
●●●●● ●●●● ACTatsMappawingin o Masie Wond Sade doesnt seem too worried by her now fickle british supporters and for two good reasons. Firstly, she is still hugely popular throughout the world. She has sold over 32.5 million albums world-wide, and in the United states her album sales rival those of madonna and michael jackson Secondly, she is a very private person. She disliked the intense publicity of the 80s, and now enjoys her relative as she pleases. "People here are indifferent to me now and/ o obscurity. From hr north London house, she can come and ge enjoy that indifference, she says Sade herself is not clear as to why her UK fans stopped buying her albums. It makes me wonder why they ever liked us in the first place. When I really like some music, I dont just get tired of it like that, she says, It can be very hostile, England
Sade doesn’t seem too worried by her now fickle British supporters and for two good reasons. Firstly, she is still hugely popular throughout the world. She has sold over 32.5 million albums world-wide, and in the United States, her album sales rival those of Madonna and Michael Jackson. Secondly, she is a very private person. She disliked the intense publicity of the 80s, and now enjoys her relative obscurity. From hr north London house, she can come and go as she pleases. “People here are indifferent to me now and I enjoy that indifference,” she says. Sade herself is not clear as to why her UK fans stopped buying her albums. “It makes me wonder why they ever liked us in the first place. When I really like some music, I don’t just get tired of it like that ,” she says,” It can be very hostile, England. All That’s Happening in the Music World
●●●●● ●●●● lAts Happanngin o Masle Word I Not just to me, to everybody. England' s like a sour old auntie. You go and stay with her although she criticizes you all the time and doesn 't treat you right, even when you're doing your best. But you keep on loving her, in a certain way
Not just to me, to everybody. England’s like a sour old auntie. You go and stay with her although she criticizes you all the time and doesn’t treat you right, even when you’re doing your best. But you keep on loving her, in a certain way.” All That’s Happening in the Music World