Word: sade
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...Marquis" examines the work of the Marquis de Sade, the French nobleman with a legendary penchant for bizarre sexual escapades. Sade's writings detail every form of sexual perversion and violent fixation conceivable. Few besides the surrealists and the existentialists credit him with any great contribution to literature, but "Marquis" derives both political and psychological insights from his legacy...
...British do it? Perhaps by not pigeonholing musicians and by giving them a wider reign in the studio. Says Sade, the British chanteuse whose Diamond Life album in 1984 signaled the British knack for soul: "There's less consumerism in England and more idealism in the record business than in America...
...intensely seductive, almost mesmerizing quality in her music has helped Helen Folosade Adu, the Anglo-Nigerian singer better known as SADE (pronounced Shah-day), sell more than 22 million copies of her first three albums. But the sameness of Sade's smooth, samba-scented love songs has always verged on monotony. Now, after a four-year silence, the singer is back with Love Deluxe (Epic), an album that is virtually indistinguishable from her previous ones. The final track, an overly long instrumental, underscores the fact that Sade has no new ideas. Anyone who owns an earlier Sade album would...
...iniquitatis. We cannot know evil systematically or scientifically. It is brutal or elusive, by turns vivid and vague, horrible and subtle. We can know it poetically, symbolically, historically, emotionally. We can know it by its works. But evil is sly and bizarre. Hitler was a vegetarian. The Marquis de Sade opposed capital punishment...
...Europe sampling has created some controversial musical stews. The techno- rockers EMF have stirred up a fuss with their single Lies, in which they sample the voice of Mark David Chapman, the John Lennon assassin, reciting lyrics from Lennon's last album. To create the disco hit Sadeness, Part I, Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu sampled Gregorian chants, juxtaposed them with whispered verses from the Marquis de Sade, and set them to a metronomic beat. Whether such sampling is artistry "depends on how you use it," says Cretu. "If you are a really creative person...