"But Sade's band always kind of sucked"

huh?

WTF?

c'mon son

I wouldn't even have thought something like that 15 years ago

Sade's catalog was strong when she wrote this

and having caught the NY show on her recent tour

I have no idea what she's talking about

she also dropped some names, including Badu

that D was going to make completely irrelevant

how'd that turn out

again, at the time this article was written

Baduizm had just been released

Voodoo came out the same year as Mama's Gun, right?

I don't think she withered in D's shadow