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boricuacherry-blog · 11 months ago

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Promise is lush and unhurried, reclining somewhere between jazz, Brazilian pop, and soul. The album's title was inspired by a letter that Adu received from her father, in which he wrote about the "promise of hope," a reference to a source of strength he found during his battle with cancer.

Multiple articles and reviews from the time of release leaned on the same descriptor for the singer, the band, and the music: "cool." It's mood music, at the purest definition: Stuart Matthewman's sax, Andrew Hale's keys, and Paul Spencer Denman's masterful bass envelope listeners, transport them. Their live recordings were a departure from the heavily programmed production of the era, and the sparse elegance that some found - and still find - too loungy is one of the primary factors in Sade's sound and catalog aging beautifully.

Promise's opener, "Is It a Crime," is Sweetback's (the name Matthewman, Hale, and Denman perform under as a trio) showcase. This is a definitive Sade song, with Hammond organs and djembes and Adu pleading over big-band style crescendos. She describes her love as one that "dives and jumps and ripples like the deepest ocean," and that's what the song does, waves of sax and piano cresting and breaking over Adu's insistent declaration of love.

While Sade's music is often categorized as relaxing or sensual, the smoothness of her vocals and the mellow instrumentation belies the melancholy in most of the album cuts. Lyrically, Promise is a collection of short stories exploring the varied stages of love and relationships; some autobiographical to Adu, who co-wrote every song on the album but one.

"War of the Hearts" frames the end of a relationship as a standoff; Jezebel is the deceptively simple story of a prostitute, told in innuendos, "Jezebel, what a belle/Looks like a princess in her new dress/How did you get that?/Do you really want to know? she said," and Maureen is about a friend she lost and all the new experiences she'll never get to tell her about.

#sade #promise #album #promise album #1985 #80s #jazz #🔥🔥🔥

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vampyfrnk · 6 months ago

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge!

#mikey way #ray toro #gerard way #frank iero #my chemical romance #mcr #three cheers for sweet revenge #i'm not okay (i promise)#helena #ghost of you #music video #mv #mvedit #gifs*#*#this album came out when i was two years old i'm crying

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whim-prone-pirate · 1 year ago

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olivia rodrigo set herself up years ago as a young female pop icon and she just tricked millions into listening to melodic punk + alt fem rock. love her for that.

#this was pretty much my dream for her sophomore album since before it was announced #i have ALWAYS said brutal and good 4 u are two of the best off sour #she is GOOD at this very specific genre of rock #she was not destined to be a singer-songwriter with a piano despite being fantastic at that as well #she was meant to be in a fem punk band and i promise i can get her there #olivia rodrigo #guts olivia rodrigo #sour olivia rodrigo #pop punk #alt rock

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untisun · 2 months ago

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Day 6: Hyperspeed

#ink sans #inktobertale #inktobertale2024 #utmv #undertale au #my art #inspired by ultrakill's album cover #that red one where v1 is doing same pose #I might have to skip a few days #but i promise i have something interesting planned for other days....

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hyolks · 1 month ago

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thank u god kim jungsu is not a guitarist i wouldn't survive it

#xdinary heroes #xdiz #xdiztober #kim jungsu #jungsu #i promise ill draw more than just jungsu this was unintentional #ALSO I WENT TO AN XG CONCERT LAST NIGHT ANd i sat down in my seat looked up and IMMEDIATELY saw an xh light stick #xdinary heroes take over i dare say ?#i wanted to strike up a convo so bad but ...... im a coward..... and i couldnt think of how to do it without being like HI WHATS YOUR FAV #SONG FROM EACH ALBUM ALPHABETIZED #im kidding im not that crazy. anyways xg was very cool :^)

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pigeonpalacade · 10 months ago

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Three cheers for smirking revenge

#i have been listening to the album non stop and this is whats come of it #im wearing my mcr shirt while posting this isnt that wild #if im being honest i think early sunsets over monroeville is their song and its not even on this album #im not ok i promise is on my narrator playlist though im still justified #fight club #fight club fanart #soapshipping #the narrator #tyler durden #my chemical romance #mcr #three cheers for sweet revenge #my art #digital art

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gods-favorite-autistic · 8 months ago

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Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

#i neeeeed fig to go indie it’s her destiny #she promises each of them that she’ll dedicate at least one song to them and then dedicates a track to each of them individually #sklondas seething a tiny bit that she called riz the ball but he won’t stop playing it so it keeps getting stuck in her head #adaine summons mephits to help with her track #you can hear her in the background near the end yelling ‘yeah!’ and ‘fuck off!’#fabian wanted his to sound like a shanty but fig said it wouldn’t go with the vibe of the album #they eventually compromised by having the noise of waves and seagulls subtly in the background throughout #kristen actually cried the first time fig played the ballad of lucy frostblade for them #summer scaries sounds like an olivia rodrigo song #gorgug gets a sick drum solo in raging for love #time quangle opens with fire crackling and a bird cawing and a quiet clip of ayda saying ‘I love you’ before the instrumental starts #fig stuck a quiet sound clip of gilear saying ‘oh fuck’ and then a louder sound clip of her saying ‘oh fuck!’ in cursed #devils nectar is one of the slower tracks on the album #hall of mirrors is heavily inspired by the events at evil mordred and baron so you can hear a lot of influences from baronesian music in it #fig has a fucking sick as hell guitar solo and a couple of samples from just the bottomless pit in general in infaethable #Gorthalax also gets some lyrical input on it #fig manages to get a clip of riz saying ‘the ball bitch!’ to kalvaxus in freshman year to put in fury of the ball #is this too long for an album? maybe but who cares I love this #a good portion of the profits made from the album goes towards college for the party #having thoughts about fig and the cig fig’s Junior year album #autism (mads) speaks #fantasy high #fhjy #fig faeth #fantasy high junior year #dimesnion 20 #d20 fantasy high #fig and the cig figs

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 6 months ago

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Illustration of a cemetery from World's Best Music – Helen Kendrik Johnson // the 1 – Taylor Swift // loml – Taylor Swift

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batterycityghoul · 6 months ago

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Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge:

↳ Release Date: June 8, 2004

#mcr #my chemical romance #three cheers for sweet revenge #revenge #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #mcredit #music edit #music videos #album #music #helena #ghost of you #i'm not okay (i promise)#my edit

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vincentsleftear · 3 months ago

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you are SICK. and you’re MARRIED. And you might be DYING. and you’re HOLDING me like WATER IN YOUR HANDS.

#phoebe bridgers when I catch you-#listening to moon song and experiencing a normal range of emotions for a well adjusted person :)#promise :)#moon song #phoebe bridgers #punisher #punisher album #music box

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boricuacherry-blog · 11 months ago

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#sade #maureen #lyrics #promise album

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chongoblog · 2 years ago

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sometimes you find out two songs have the same key, you try it out, and you realize that sometimes art really can be throwing things at the wall and seeing what beautiful thing might stick

#yeah this was made in like 30 seconds #and im keeping my promise of the previous post #this is not a leaked track of the next album #mashup

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atlantis-area · 8 months ago

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