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Rewound

"There's a Quiet Storm and It Never Felt Like This Before"

Though I've listened to this song – initially against my five-year-old will and later by choice – for 20 years now, I still have no idea what the "Sweetest Taboo" is. I won't even tell you what my friends think it means, but, trust me, I doubt Sade would write a captivating song about it.

Regardless, Sade's voice still stands as one of the best in music, even if one fails to understand the words accompanying it.

Mar 7, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson · Link · 7 Responses

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Comments (7)

No. 1 · JillyBean819

Agreed, she has some jams. Her music will never grow old.

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 9:33 am

No. 2 · blackmistressdiva

Does your friend think the "sweetest taboo" is a blumpkin? If so, yea, let's hope she wouldn't write a song about it.

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 12:14 pm

No. 3 · MyOpinionCountsToo

I love Shar-Day!

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 2:54 pm

No. 4 · JillyBean819

MyOpinionCountsToo,

Ha! My mom and I were laughing the other day about how you only hear black people referring to her as Shar-day. Kinda like saying ChicaRgo. My black people!

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 3:32 pm

No. 5 · Michelle

Hell, one of my best friends calls her "Saw-Day". I don't want to correct her because it makes me laugh.

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 3:40 pm

No. 6 · divaliscious11

You really don't know?… how old are you???????

Posted: Mar 7, 2008 at 8:08 pm

No. 7 · souldecirce

how does age determine whether someone should know (and what is "knowing" it anyway)?

it could probably apply to just about any taboo one can think of. in youth and old age, i thought the song referred to the love between a white man and a black woman, which, in the apartheid / Reagan-era seemed both taboo, and yet, is so very, very sweet.

the line: "sometimes i think you're just too good for me" contains a double entendre of a love's genuine gratitude and the prevailing white supremacist attitude.

yes, my m.a. thesis was on the songs of Sade.

Posted: Mar 8, 2008 at 4:19 pm

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