Soldier of Love (Sade song)
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| Single by Sade | |||||||||||
| from the album Soldier of Love | |||||||||||
| B-side | "Flow" | ||||||||||
| Released | 8 December 2009 | ||||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | ||||||||||
| Recorded | 2009 | ||||||||||
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| Length | 5:59 | ||||||||||
| Label | RCA | ||||||||||
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"Soldier of Love" is the first single and title track from the album Soldier of Love by the English band Sade. It premiered worldwide on 8 December 2009, and it was released on iTunes digitally on 12 January 2010. It was also the band's first new material in almost ten years, preceding their long-awaited sixth studio album of the same name which was released worldwide on 8 February 2010. The song was number-one on the Billboard Adult R&B. The song debuted at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the band's highest debut on the chart. It has peaked at number 52, making it the band's highest-peaking single on that chart since 1992's "No Ordinary Love".
The track won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony. The song was used during the end credits of "The Lady", a 2010 film directed by Luc Besson based on eyewitness accounts of former Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris.
The song was written by Sade Adu along with the other band members and recorded by the end of the summer in 2009.
"Soldier of Love" has been received positively from the music critics, who praised the band's comeback. Pitchfork Media hailed the singer's "incomparable voice, which sounds as passionately poised as it did on 1984's Diamond Life."The Hollywood Reporter gave also a positive review, saying that "It may be just a taste of what's to come, but Sade's latest definitely has its listeners at attention."Digital Spy rated the song four stars out of five, and described it as "a bit of revelation - a rich, atmospheric pop symphony".Rolling Stone called it an "amazing ballad of utter emotional devastation" as well as "classic Sade - a cool and collected song about falling apart," and ranked the song number three on its list of the 50 Best Songs of 2010.
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