 Genius Meanings
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Sade – The Big Unknown
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[Intro] / Ooh, ooh / Hmm, mmm / [Verse 1] / Only love could bring us / Bring us to this bitter plane / Only one of us / Who's gonna walk away / Here in the deep below / That only
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Elder island – The Big Unknown
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[Intro] / Beastly / Peel the layers back, see me / Feel you right on track / Beastly / Peel the layers back, see me / Feel you right on track / Take it always slowly, piece by
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Sade – By Your Side
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“By Your Side,” released January 12, 2001, is the lead single from Sade’s fifth album Lovers Rock, and the first new music from the band since 1993’s “Please Send Me Someone To
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Sade – Smooth Operator
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“Smooth Operator” was the third single from Sade’s blockbuster debut album Diamond Life, which takes its title from the first line of this song. The single reached #5 on the US
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Sade – The Sweetest Taboo
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The “Sweetest Taboo” is the height of sexual pleasure, and Sade sings lovingly about a man who gets her there in this song. The line “There’s a quiet storm” is a reference to the
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Sade – Like a Tattoo
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The final night of Sade’s 1993 Love Deluxe World Tour, Sade explained to her audience that “Like A Tattoo” was a true story based on the accounts of a stranger Sade met years ago
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Big Sean (Ft. Migos) – Sacrifices
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On “Sacrifices,” Big Sean and Migos reflect on the sacrifices they had to make to become successful artists. Sean drops references to old tracks like “Marvin and Chardonnay,” while
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Sade – Your Love Is King
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As an artist who sings a lot about love (i.e. Hang on to Your Love, No Ordinary Love, Lover’s Pride) it is easy to rank “Your Love is King” as yet another installment in Sade’s
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Sade – Cherish the Day
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“Cherish the Day” was released as the fourth and final single from Love Deluxe on July 19, 1993. The airy track was matched with a black-and-white music video filmed in New York
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Just Playing (Dreams)
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Biggie Smalls runs through a list of his favorite R&B singers, detailing what sexual acts he’d like to engage in with them, including: Patti LaBelle; Regina Belle; Jasmine Guy
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Sade – Is It a Crime?
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Is It a Crime? peaked at #49 on the U.K. Singles chart and #55 on Billboard’s R&B chart, staying on the chart for 7 weeks in 1985.
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Sade – Jezebel
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[Verse] / Jezebel, wasn't born / With a silver spoon in her mouth / She prob'ly had / Less than every one of us / But when she knew how to walk, she knew / How to bring the house
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Sade – Kiss of Life
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“Kiss of Life” peaked at #44 on the U.K. Singles chart, #78 on the Billboard Hot 100, #20 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart and #10 on Billboard’s R&B chart, staying on the
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Sade – No Ordinary Love
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“No Ordinary Love” was featured in the 1993 Robert Redford film “Indecent Proposal.”
The song peaked at #14 on the U.K. Singles chart, #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, #14 on
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Sade – Soldier of Love
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“Soldier of Love” was the lead single from Sade’s 2010 album Soldier of Love, the group’s first since Lovers Rock in 2000.
Released in December 2009, the military-themed rhythmic
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Sade – Pearls
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[Verse 1] / There is a woman in Somalia / Scraping for pearls on the roadside / There's a force stronger than nature / Keeps her will alive / This is how she's dying / She's dying
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Drake (Ft. Yeat) – IDGAF
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On “IDGAF,” Yeat speaks about his nonchalant-like personality—playing on the song’s title, an acronym for “I Don’t Give A Fuck.” Believed to be a diss track on an unnamed former
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Slipknot – De Sade
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / I feel it now, a new restraint / The fool is only he who fools again (Again), again (Again), again (Again) / I needed all the pain you saved / To
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Sade – Paradise
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“Paradise” is considered one of Sade’s signature songs.
It became a number-one R&B hit for the band, topping Billboard’s R&B chart for a week in July of 1988, making it their only
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MF DOOM (Ft. Pebbles the Invisible Girl) – Doomsday
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Samples “Kiss of Life” by Sade and “Poetry” by Boogie Down Productions.
DOOM explains in XXL Magazine:
[This song was] a while ago, so I’m trying to remember what inspired it. It
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Shubh – King Shit
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[Chorus] / Bade bolde, "Mitran te case" / Maame tolde karde aa chase / Saare rollte ralldi na pace / Sade aun te karde na face / [Verse 1] / Ni mai bhar ke clip dikki rakheya tool
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Lil Baby – Real Spill
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“Real Spill” is the introductory track to Lil Baby’s third studio album, “It’s Only Me”. He begins the album by expressing that he has leveled up from street activity and is in a
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Rex Orange County – THE SHADE
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“THE SHADE” is the eighth song featured on Rex Orange County’s fourth album, Who Cares? The track sees him reminisce about his regrets with a past lover.
During an April 2021
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Sade – Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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“Love Is Stronger Than Pride” peaked at #44 on the U.K. Singles chart and #18 in the Netherlands in 1988.
It was also moderately successful in France, Ireland, South Africa and
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Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
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“Fast Car” is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released in April 1988 as the lead single from her self-titled debut album. Her appearance on the Nelson
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Drake – BBL Love (Interlude)
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“BBL Love” is the second of two interludes on Drake’s eighth studio album, For All The Dogs. This track sees him draw comparisons with love, the most notable of which being to a
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Dido – Thank You
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Released on Dido’s 1999 debut studio album, No Angel, “Thank You” made its first appearance in 1998, on the soundtrack of Sliding Doors, although it was not released as a single
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Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Eurythmics’ bold musical experimentation culminated in “Sweet Dreams”—the fourth single from duo’s second album, and their biggest hit.
When they wrote “Sweet Dreams,” Annie
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Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
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Dylan’s 1965 single “Like a Rolling Stone” is widely considered one of the greatest songs ever recorded. In 2004 the critics at Rolling Stone magazine (whose name was partly Dylan-
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J. Cole – No Role Modelz
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J. Cole believes that shallow, materialistic “L.A. hoes” got that way because their only role models were talentless reality TV stars. But Cole also had no role models growing up
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Drake (Ft. Rick Ross) – Free Spirit
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4th of four songs that Drake dropped in anticipation for his upcoming album, Take Care. It samples Sade’s “I Will Be Your Friend”
October’s Very Own and the world’s most dangerous
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Black Star – Definition
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The first of two “definition”-themed songs (peep the remix), “Definition” was released in August 1998 as the first single from the Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star album.
It
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Taylor Swift – Midnight Rain
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With the song utilizing an inside light pop rhythm with a mix of some synth sounds, “Midnight Rain” finds Taylor singing about ending a relationship to focus on her singing career
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21 Savage & Metro Boomin (Ft. Drake) – Mr. Right Now
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On “Mr. Right Now,” 21 Savage and Drake trade bars about introducing their women to luxury lifestyles and boasting their respective sexual prowess. They drop references to multiple
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Lana Del Rey – Video Games
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Considered Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit, “Video Games” served as the first single off the artist’s wildly successful sophomore studio album and major label debut, Born to Die
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Mike WiLL Made-It (Ft. Big Sean) – On the Come Up
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Over ferocious production by Mike WiLL. This is the first track off of Ransom 2; Sean reminisces about the obstacles he faced trying to “come up” in the rap game
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Calum Scott – Dancing on My Own
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“Dancing On My Own” is a cover of Robyn’s 2010 hit. Scott first sang it in his Britain’s Got Talent audition which had been viewed over 240 million times as of September 1st, 2019.
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SHAED – Trampoline
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The song is most recognizable from the Apple commercial in late October 2018 for the MacBook Air.
In an interview with Pop Dust on July 23rd, 2018, Chelsea Lee answered two
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Seal – Kiss from a Rose
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“Kiss from a Rose” is a song from Seal’s second eponymous album, Seal II. The song was first released as a single in July 1994. Re-released in 1995, it was included on the Batman
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Rittz (Ft. B.o.B & Mike Posner) – In My Zone
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This song is the 8th track on Rittz' 2nd studio album Next to Nothing which was released on September 9, 2014. It features a verse from from fellow Atlanta rapper B.o.B and a hook
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The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
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“Fools Gold” is a one-of-a-kind song that became the Stone Roses' biggest commercial hit at the time. It was their first single to reach the UK Top Ten.
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Ella Mai – Trip
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After charting a top-five hit with “Boo’d Up” on the Hot 100, Ella Mai attempts to strike gold again with her new record “Trip.”
The piano-laden song finds Mai deeply entranced by
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The Game (Ft. Anderson .Paak) – Stainless
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[Chorus: Anderson .Paak] / Rollin' on the 105 (105) / I don't drink when I drive (I don't think you know) / But I gotta do it high (Know) / Blowin' smoke in the sky (Smoke in the
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Sade – In Another Time
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[Verse 1] / You'd be surprised, girl / Soon they'll mean nothing to you / They'll fall into their brew / And take down some of the boys with them, too / There's nothing / Nothing
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Solange – Cranes in the Sky
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“Cranes in the Sky” describes Solange’s attempts at avoiding painful feelings.
While asked by her sister Beyonce about the meaning of the song in Interview magazine, she explained
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