Whether you believe in a possible happy ending or hear the song as a wound that will never heal is up to you. No Ordinary Love is a popular song by Sade Create your own TikTok videos with the No Ordinary Love song and explore 10.5K videos made by new and popular. It is, to my surprise, even better than the original: Chino Moreno's masculine yet hesitant voice is stirring there's nothing quite like it. I was later told the song had been covered by the Deftones. It took more than a decade until I was to hear the song again, in a Vancouver dive bar. Others – probably those who have been hurt or disillusioned once too many – will insist Sade will only dive back in the dark waters as deep as she can, never to resurface. This is where the true romantics among us will hang on to their vision of the world, arguing everything's not lost. The last scene shows her close to defeat, sitting by the sea as her tail is tragically about to reappear. A stereotypical 90s guitar solo follows, subdued and deep.
Her faith in their love appears to be limitless even as it becomes clear that, as she runs through the streets in a wedding dress desperately looking for her man, she won't be able to fulfil her dream. The video shows a strikingly beautiful Sade having made it out of the ocean, miraculously sporting legs, fish tail be damned. Never mind the obstacles in her way, though: the mermaid decides to brave the elements. And so her sullen voice sings, surprisingly nonchalantly: "Didn't I tell you what I believe/ Somebody say that/ A love like that won't last?/ I keep crying, I keep trying for you/ There's nothing like you and I, baby."
He may be able to visit her for a short embrace – and how alluring he is, with his camp Jean Paul Gaultier good looks and his nautical tattoos! – but by its nature, their passion has to be short lived.
The video shows her as a mermaid desperately in love with a sailor she can't completely have: they're not from the same world and live – literally – oceans apart. To my young eyes, Sade's character was not unlike those found in a tragic Disney fairytale, only more grown-up. The video, which was enjoying huge success in France at the time, was shown on music channels on heavy rotation during the summer holidays. I first heard the song when I was eight years old. Those who believe that Sade's love affair, as sung in her 1995 number No Ordinary Love, will pull through – and those who don't. This much I know: there are two kinds of people in this world.
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