Sade ~ Smooth Operator (Original Version)

"Smooth Operator" is a song by the English group Sade released as the fourth and final single from their debut album, Diamond Life (1984). It was released (in both the U.S. and the UK) as a 7" single with "Spirit" as its B-side and as a 12" maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B. In the U.S. it was the follow-up to "Hang on to Your Love".
This was Sade's first top ten hit in the U.S., peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in May 1985. The song spent thirteen weeks in the top forty and also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for two weeks. Although "Your Love Is King" remains Sade's biggest hit in the UK to date, "Smooth Operator" is the band's breakthrough hit on the U.S. charts, and their most successful single internationally.
Ray St. John, who co-wrote "Smooth Operator" with Sade Adu, was previously a member of Adu's former band Pride, although he was not a member of the band Sade. The pair had co-written the song in 1982 while still members of Pride, but did not get around to recording it because St. John left Pride shortly after Sade joined. St. John later went on to play guitar with the band Halo James, which scored a UK top ten hit with "Could Have Told You So" in January 1990.
The song is about a fashionable man who lives a jet-set lifestyle. He is very popular with the ladies, and breaks a lot of hearts in his travels. With the lyrics, "Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale", it is implied that the women he uses also supply his wealth. It is also clear that he does not return the affections of these women, as Adu sings near the end, "His heart is cold."

The video for "Smooth Operator", directed by Julian Temple, was nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, Best Female Video and Best New Artist.[1] The full-length version runs around eight and a half minutes, and shows the entire story of the song. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]

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[ariespiscismj]

Thanks, I read the above reading explaning the song, now I know that he was a man who break a lot of hearts and uses the women only for sex and supply his wealth, a good lover who has not heart. But I don't understand why they are recording him or who is the old man, I continue believing that she was a spy falling him and couldn't continue doing her job because he broke her heart and she fell in his game.

[ariespiscismj]

Somebody can explain me the video? And I agree that the singer of Sade is a beautiful and angelical woman with a beautiful and smooth voice. I like her.

[ariespiscismj]

I love thissong but I never understood very well this video. She and the woman are prostitute or are spies detectives falling the man. I believe that she was a spy and falling in love with him and for that reason the chief send the other woman and she had to tolerate watch him with the other partner, because she couldn't continue her job because she falled in love with him or could be two prostitutes and her boss gave other woman to the man because she made the mistake to fall in love with him.

[LordAzanko]

Such an etheral voice it just echos in my mind.....

[LordAzanko]

This song really takes me back memories of a time long past....

[MultiVictorious1]

Ain't Nothin like the real thang Baby! and she is All that!

[Rawenhun]

This song is beautiful....and SADE....angelic. :)

[orenshin]

This song is the shit!!!

[DLALA01]

I LUV THIS JAM

[NEXPAR]

Love the ending. NOT!