By Your Side

My name is Rob Harvilla.

This is the 48th episode of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, colon, the 2000s, and this week we are discussing By Your Side from the Sade album Lovers Rock, released in the year 2000.

The language is so beautifully simple, and the melody is so beautifully simple, and the sentiment is so beautifully simple.

But as the early 21st century gets darker and uglier and more horrendously complicated, this is the sentiment and this is the voice that might cut through it all and make it all bearable.

The message of By Your Side is that you don't have to bear it all alone.

Sade's voice wraps us in a warm embrace and says, "Let's remember some guys together."

Oh, when you're low, I'll be there.

[singing] You think I'd leave your side, baby? You know me better than that.

Once in a while, a song and a movie collide and there is nothing better.

That collision happens here when Penelope Cruz sings along to Sade by your side.

Fun fact, Sade, I mean Sade, is a British band led by the lovely Sade.

Yes, that's how you pronounce it.

The female singer.

So Penelope Cruz...

She's wooing Seth Rogen, singing along to Sade, By Your Side, the up close and personal angles, camera views, movie, freaking, magic, cinematic, star, douche.

Other times where songs and movie reached go to status.