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Four albums and a string was touring scheduled.
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The sultry singer was plagued by excessive media attention and decided to take some time off.
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But her hiatus didn't hinder her talent.
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In fact, Sade's latest release, Love Deluxe, may be her best work to date.
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This is no ordinary love.
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No ordinary love.
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This is no ordinary love No ordinary love Sade has a reputation for being understated,
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which may explain why it's easier to get to know her through her music.
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From the beginning, her lyrics have reflected on love and relationships.
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A fan of funk, folk,
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and flamenco, Chade gives the impression of having grown up around music all her life.
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But when we sat down with her at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, she told us otherwise.
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My mother deprived me.
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We had about three records in our house.
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I didn't grow up surrounded by music.
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I was surrounded by strange instruments.
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My mother was a nurse and we had this room in our house that had all these strange medical instruments.
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She was like the district nurse, the nurse of the town, something that I grew up in.
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But no musical instruments.
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My father was a real soul and jazz freak.
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and I didn't I wasn't brought up by him
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but it's just I spent some time with him and
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when I was with him we sort of spent hours of going through his dusty record collection
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and getting excited
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and selecting our tunes he was my DJ my dad did
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he have a name I mean you know like a DJ
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name no his name is good enough he he's called BC he would have
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that would have been a good on-air name I think DJ BC.
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I do BC, I do.
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Okay, exactly.
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Now, how did you get Sade, the name Sade?
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Well, I was christened Helen Foller Sade.
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And my Nigerian family, because I had my first few years in Nigeria, there's no way they're going to call me Helen.
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It's an English name, you know.
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So they just refused.
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They decided that I was Sade, so I've always been Sade.
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Now, I knew it was Helen, but I didn't realize Sade was actually a part of that.
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Yeah.
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Now, you were talking about the town where you grew up and with your mother, and I understand that you and your brother were the only colored kids in the neighborhood.
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Did you have a lot of trouble because of that?
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No, not really, because the attitude was really cool towards us.
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I think we were a bit of a curiosity, you know, when we arrived there.
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You know, people came to have a look at us, you know, check us out and touch us, talk to us, see if we smell like the rest.
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But it was a kind, it was a, people were inquisitive, you know, they weren't prying, you know, they were fascinated.
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and they accepted us, you know, as we were.
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You know, I had a pretty good childhood and it was a good place to be.
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It was a quite small town, village really, and we were the nurses' kids.
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Your new album, Love Deluxe, is unmistakably chardé.
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There I go with the R, chardé, which is excellent, by the way.
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Were you concerned, though, having set out for four years, that what sold then may not have been a hit now?
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I didn't really contemplate that because, you know, we were just thinking, let's make another album and just make it how it feels right.
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and then with the like people may like it
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and people may not
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but that's not really the main objective is to make a piece of work
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that you feel as proud as you can you know of
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your own work why did you sit up for four years
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well well partly I had to pursue a life was we'd been on the roll for quite a long time
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and I think you just sort of you drift around in this sort of strange fantasy world and
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sometimes you just need to get back
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and live your life in order to really want to carry
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on with what you do I need to just to get away but
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when the rumors surfaced oh she had a nervous breakdown there's
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the battle with drugs didn't you want to come out and say, hey, look, I'm okay?
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Um, no. I think that you could put, you get too angry.
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I think the more you defend yourself, the more frustrated you get.
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So if you try and divorce yourself from the situation and just, well, you know who you are, you know, remember who you are,
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and then you can carry on a reasonably normal life.
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But you sit here and you say that and you're so calm when you say that, but are you saying that it didn't hurt you at all?
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Oh yeah, yeah, I've been hurt, you know, just like the rest.
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I'm easily hurt, but I think it's like a defense mechanism.
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It's like there's different ways, you know.
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I'm one of those people, I'm very calm, but when somebody winds me up, as an English expression, you know, when somebody makes me angry,
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I blow my fuse and I explode.
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And I have to avoid doing that, basically, and sit back and just sort of try and cut myself off and just say that you know who you are, Sade.
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You know what's right about yourself.
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You know what's bad about yourself, what's good about yourself, and then just cut the rest off.
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Otherwise, you just can't stand on a soapbox and scream, you know, understand me.
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People, you just have to wait in time people will
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and in time people believe the right things that's part of the celebrity of it all
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yeah having your life kind of unfold yeah yeah
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or the fantasy of your life not necessarily the the reality
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because you're i think your life in particular i think
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because of your music people expect a lot of exotic things taking place at all times in your life
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and you probably are
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have a fairly regular normal day-to-day life or do you no not really
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but i never have i don't think that's anything to do
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with my fame i think some people are just sort of
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chosen to be uh i don't know to have a fairly
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sort of adventureful life you know ever since i was young
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i've sort of lots of things have happened to me
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and it's not a very tranquil calm life that i have but
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i don't know if that's i don't think that's necessary to do with me being famous it's just
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I was the one picked, you know, to have the trouble, the excitement.
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So do you get bored easily?
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No, but I don't think I, I wouldn't like to be bored, so I don't let myself get bored, you know.
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If there's a problem, I'm either, I'm involved with it, you know, so.
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I don't explain that very well.
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So that means, so then, I don't know, this is my read on this, that you do get bored.
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You cannot stand to be bored, so you make sure you're always doing something.
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Yeah, I think I create action.
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If there's no action, I would create it.
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When Xtreme Close-Up returns, shot A, firefighter?
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I wouldn't leave.
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I'd stay in the inferno until I was fully laid out.
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Welcome back to Xtreme Close-Up.
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E's half-hour interview show with Sade.
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I read an article, I think a long time ago, on you that said you don't mind going unadorned.
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Do you wear makeup only when you have to?
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Oh, no, I'm the sort of person to put makeup on.
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If my house was on fire, I'd quickly put a bit of makeup on it.
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I wouldn't leave.
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I'd stay in the inferno until I was fully made up.
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And when they say in the hotel, damp the towel and put it over your head and crawl, I'd wrap mine around like Elizabeth Taylor.
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No, I'm not the naked face type, really.
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That's pretty funny.
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So, in case of an emergency, it's like, let me grab nothing, your first aid kit, but my makeup bag.
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I'm not the oxygen mask on the airplane.
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I'm not going to put that on my face and mess up my lipstick.
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I'm going down.
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But you're going to look good.
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Yes.
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Remember me this way.
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Yeah, but I'm sitting here close, right next to you, and you don't look like you have a lot of makeup on anyway, so don't believe anything she's talking about.
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But you do wear disguises sometimes, I understand.
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Tell me about the Wendy wig, and what happened when you went to Disneyland.
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Yeah, well, it's my alter ego, Wendy.
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and Wendy has really thick glasses with thick black frames and then she has a fringe of dead straight black hair,
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quite shiny and she's quite shy and she won't talk to anybody and when people come up to her and say,
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you look a lot like Sade she goes, who's Sade?
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Wendy doesn't know anything but no, it's just like my way if I have to go somewhere that's really, really crowded
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then it's just pointless to go as me
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because you know the long queue waiting Disney World with my niece
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and it's like it's not good for her
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because then the attention is taken away from her you know it's her day
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and he right now now on the subject of wigs
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and fashions and dressing up I understand that you once uh designed men's fashions
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but now is it true that you don't particularly have to wear designer clothes yourself,
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and in fact, you're not necessarily fond of going shopping.
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No, I don't like to shop, because I get this sort of, I get delirious in shops.
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You know, I start sort of wandering around.
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I don't know if you've seen any of Romero's films,
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you know, Zombie Dawn of the Dead or Zombie Flesh-Eating Monsters or something.
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I feel like as soon as I walk into a supermarket, I'm intoxicated or into a department store.
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I can't concentrate so i'm just not a good shopper i was much better
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when i was younger do you like to dress up your house though
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because you have your house in in london you just redid i understand
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or recently redid well it was i got quite involved with the reconstruction of it
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because it was a real crumbling uh ruin
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but there's very little furniture in it at the moment there's
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like one room with everything in it with my whole life
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in it then the rest of the house is empty
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and um so sort of drift around in this empty house
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because i haven't had the opportunity to do anything about it and
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it's like i'd rather make the music than buy furniture to
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be honest with you i'd rather get involved with the band
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and what i do um the studio is really well equipped
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and that's it in the basement yeah somebody um there's one place you know i go there a lot
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and somebody once said to me a friend of mine said you should take your vitamins
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because i i don't i don't have a particularly healthy diet
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and you should take vitamins every day how can you make yourself do
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that leave them in the bathroom and then you'll overlook them
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so she went down into the basement
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and she put them on the floor in the middle of the hallway into the studio
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so that i'll definitely see them and I'll definitely take them.
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It's like the one place I'll always go is down there.
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It's the one well-equipped part of the house.
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Next up on Xtreme Close-Up, Sade on the bare necessities.
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It's something that we require and which makes life more magical.
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Welcome back to Xtreme Close-Up, E's half-hour interview show with Sade.
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I gave you all the love I got, I gave you more than I could give.
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I gave you love.
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You sing a lot about having love and then losing it.
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It's slipping through your fingers.
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Is that the way it usually works for you?
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No, I don't think so.
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I think that I sing about different aspects of love, really.
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I don't really think that there are all the love songs are sad love songs or melancholic Right, but some of them are and so I just ask you,
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I'm picking out those because I ask you if that happens Well,
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love is elusive Love is not easy to stay in that state but I think it's something that we require
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and which makes life more magical.
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I found your perspective on marriage quite interesting, and that is, who's to say that the person we marry or are with now,
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who's to say that we are the same people, or they are going to be the same people ten years from now?
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So that whole idea of being together forever.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's possible, and it's possible to love somebody forever.
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I don't know if it's possible to stay with that person forever, but I believe in love.
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But I think when two people are together, even friends, it's not so much the individuals who change, it's the perspective of the other person.
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It's like you see somebody, not necessarily for what they are, you have your own version of them.
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And then that version changes because you get to realize that there's a different perspective.
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You're seeing them for what they are.
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Are you realistic about who you are?
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You know what I mean?
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No. I don't think so.
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No?
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No, I don't think I have a good perspective of myself particularly.
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Although I don't dislike myself.
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I'm reasonably comfortable with me.
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So what is that perspective that you have of yourself?
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Well, I'm full of contradictions, you know.
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I'm very calm, but I'm very angst.
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I'm very untidy but I'm very tidy.
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I'm very easy but I'm very angry on lots of things.
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But the several sides of Sade are learning with time to live with each other.
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Do you ever feel sort of anxious because you really sometimes need to get angry with someone or about something
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there's a side of you that really wants to maintain peace?
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Yeah, but I think sometimes in order to get peace you have to just be honest.
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And sometimes it's better to get angry in order to...
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Otherwise I always think that if you keep something back from somebody, it's like each time you hold something back or it's like a lie or it's like a brick wall.
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And every time you do that, you put another brick in the wall and then you block them out completely.
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So I believe in the truth, being really honest.
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Now, you were with your husband Carlos for four years before you guys decided to get married.
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And then you got married and then the relationship ended.
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That's sort of ironic, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is.
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Yeah.
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But it happens like that.
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Yeah.
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So I see my next question goes back to one of the questions I asked you before, and that is, what sort of man do you usually fall in love with?
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But you won't even give me three of those characters, please?
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Yeah.
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No. I don't want you to have my formula.
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You're going to get the ones that I want.
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Oh, honey, they want you.
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Trust me.
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I can pull my hair back and I can try, but they want you.
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So give them to me.
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Are you as romantic and sultry as your music?
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Well, I've got a bit of a strange notion of, you know, romance.
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I think you can't really describe romance, what is romantic, because as soon as you do, then you demystify it and it's no longer magical and romantic.
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So, I mean, I don't think particularly sending flowers or holding hands and walking down the Champs-Elysees in Paris is particularly romantic,
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you know, because it's like a course that we have all trodden, you know, at some point, or, you know, it's like a code.
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I can't say what I think is romantic, but there is romance in me.
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Next up on Extreme Close-Up, The Secrets of Sade.
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I sing about it, you know.
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but I don't talk about it so much.
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Welcome back to Extreme Close-Up, E's half-hour interview show with Sade.
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To use the title of one of your songs, do you have a bulletproof soul or has it been pierced?
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No, I don't have a bulletproof soul. So it's been pierced?
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Um, yes, yes.
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It makes you uncomfortable?
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No. I wouldn't really want to be another way.
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You know, I think that in life when the letdowns make like the foundation for the high points,
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you know, I've got quite a lot of faith.
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You do? in life, yeah.
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And I think that you can never expect, you know, you'll be such a dull person and your life will be
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so dull if things were always good and things were always easy.
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And I think that definitely the low points make the high points more visible.
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Then before we go, I know all of your songs are not about the pains, that pain that goes along with love.
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But to talk about that, though, surely there's a lot of pain.
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And that doesn't mean, though, you have not given up on love, and I'd imagine you wouldn't suggest to us that we give up on love.
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No, never give up on love.
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It's definitely the food of life.
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So you're still okay on it, obviously.
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Yeah, I'm happy.
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but i mean you haven't given up on love is what
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i'm saying oh no no i never give up on love
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even though we know it hurts it sometimes yeah you get very uh uh uncomfortable
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and very quiet when we start talking about this i sing about it you know
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but I don't talk about it so much.
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No. I think a lot of what I feel, what I think, goes inside the songs.
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Is it easier for you to express yourself through your music than through podcast?
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Yeah, I think so, yeah.
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I think music, also for me,
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music, other people's music, helps me express what I feel, you know. And that's me.
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I always think if I hear a sad song, it's good for the soul, because even if you don't feel sad at the time,
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it overwhelms you, and then you exercise any grief you might have hidden inside of you.
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So I always think it's positive.
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And then happy songs just make you feel up there somewhere.
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So I think music's a good way of communicating and giving expression.
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Well, I'll say, and I know I speak for a lot of people, then keep on communicating because we love you.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Nice to meet you.
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You too.
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Thank you.

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這段影片共有 276 個句子、3234 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 21:04。 說話人語速自然,每分鐘約 154 個詞,接近日常對話。 84% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞,其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

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影片中 15 個不太常見的單詞,附發音和釋義:

  • romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ (形容詞) — 浪漫. Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
  • bore /boɹ/ (動詞) — 煩擾 /煩擾. To inspire boredom in somebody.
  • ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ (形容詞) — 普通, 平常. Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
  • nurse /nɝs/ (名詞) — 護士 /護士, 看護 /看護. Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
  • necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (副詞) — 必然地, 必定地. Inevitably; of necessity.
  • romance /roʊˈmæn(t)s/ (名詞) — 戀愛 /戀愛, 浪漫. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
  • instrument /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/ (名詞) — 儀器, 儀表. A device used to produce music.
  • thick /θɪk/ (形容詞) — ху, 厚. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
  • furniture /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ (名詞) — 傢俱. Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
  • brick /ˈbɹɪk/ (名詞) — 磚仔 /磚仔, 磚 /磚. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
  • uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ (形容詞) — 不舒服. Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
  • basement /ˈbeɪsmənt/ (名詞) — 地下室. A floor of a building below ground level.
  • reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/ (副詞) — 合理的. In accordance with reason.
  • vitamin /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ (名詞) — 維生素 /維生素, 維他命 /維他命. Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found…
  • dull /dʌl/ (形容詞) — 鈍 /鈍. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.

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  • grow up (動詞) — 長大 /長大. To mature and become an adult.
  • bring up (動詞) — 撫養 /撫養, 養大 /養大. To mention.
  • come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (動詞) — 出, 出來 /出來. To be discovered; to be revealed.
  • do in (動詞) — 幹掉 /幹掉, 弄死. To kill or end; to defeat.
  • feel up (動詞) — 吃豆腐. To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.
  • go down (動詞) — 下降, 下去. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  • go through (動詞) — 通過 /通過. To travel from one end of something to the other.
  • look at (動詞) — 觀察 /觀察, 看. To observe or watch.

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現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事have reflected · I've always been · I've been hurt
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