Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on Oct 23, 2023 1:08:08 GMT -5
#78 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs
If you believe that first impressions are crucial, it’d be hard for a group to do much better than “Smooth Operator” — side one, track one from Sade’s 1984 debut, Diamond Life, moves with uncommon grace and sly groove. It’s a portrait of a lifelong lothario, a jet-setting heartthrob “loved in seven languages,” who pirouettes from one torrid affair to the next; the single shimmies towards the dancefloor behind throbbing bass, louche sax, and spurts of conga. Remarkably, Sade Adu never wavered from the promise of “Smooth Operator”: She has spent her career conjuring misty romance through dreamy funk and downtempo soul. While many singers have attempted to imitate her suave poise, few have proven smooth enough to pull it off. — ELIAS LEIGHT
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