"Somebody Already Broke My Heart" | ||||
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Single by Sade | ||||
from the album Lovers Live | ||||
Released | 2003 | |||
Recorded | 20–21 September 2001 | |||
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Genre | ||||
Length | 5:13 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
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Sade singles chronology | ||||
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"Somebody Already Broke My Heart" on YouTube |
"Somebody Already Broke My Heart" is a song by the English band Sade, produced as a single from their 2002 live album Lovers Live released by Epic Records.[1][2][3] The studio version of the song was initially featured in their 2000 album Lovers Rock.
Reception
In his review of the studio version of the song, Vulture's Frank Guan gave "Somebody Already Broke My Heart" top billing, writing "If there’s anything harder than falling in love, it’s falling in love again after being betrayed many times over. There’s a vulnerability in this song that goes beyond even the high standard set by the rest of the Sade catalog, a sense that, faced with a love affair that hasn’t even really yet begun, she’s skipping past the rapture of infatuation straight to the painful end; and that she somehow has the strength of character to do this knowingly and willingly. "If someone has to lose, I don’t want to play," she sings, but there she goes, diving into the future disaster; “I can’t go there again,” she decides, but she actually can. There really is such a thing as a genius of feeling, and Sade has it in abundance. Among all of her songs none are stronger or wiser than this. "Here I am, so don’t leave me stranded."[4]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Somebody Already Broke My Heart" |
| 5:13 |
References
- ↑ "Somebody Already Broke My Heart - Sade | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ Odito, Doris Foxworth (2017). Love On Safari. BookBaby. ISBN 9781543905328. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "Somebody Already Broke My Heart (live)". Sade | Official website for the British iconic band. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ Guan, Frank. "All 73 Sade Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best". Vulture. Retrieved 25 June 2019.