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Is it a Crime?

To have Sade and Slayer side-by-side on your CD shelf? I hope not.

Check out this smoldering performance by Sade; notice how well the melody of this one helps communicate what’s happening in the lyric.

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  1. Mark

    September 22, 2011 at 09:09

    That is her own rendition and i don’t think its a crime.

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