Sacred Love

For other uses, see Sacred Love (disambiguation).

Sacred Love
Studio album by
Sting
Released29 September 2003 (2003-09-29)[1]
Recorded2002–2003
Studio
GenrePop rock, electronic, pop, world
Length52:37
LabelA&M
ProducerSting, Kipper
Sting chronology
...All This Time
(2001) 		Sacred Love
(2003) 		Songs from the Labyrinth
(2006)
Singles from Sacred Love
  1. "Send Your Love"
    Released: August 2003
  2. "Whenever I Say Your Name"
    Released: November 2003
  3. "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)"
    Released: 26 April 2004 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[5]
Mojo[3]
PopMatters[6]
Q[3]
Rolling Stone[7]

Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by the English musician Sting. The album was released on 29 September 2003. The album featured smoother, R&B-style beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Some songs like "Inside" and "Dead Man's Rope" were well received; and Sting had experimented with new sounds, in particular the more rock-influenced "This War".[8]

Sting adapted the first quatrain of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence for the first four sung lines of "Send Your Love".

Sting's collaboration with Blige, "Whenever I Say Your Name", won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004. The first single "Send Your Love" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, but it lost to "Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake.[8]

In August 2015, Mylène Farmer and Sting duetted on Stolen Car and released it as the lead single from Farmer's tenth studio album, Interstellaires;[9] the track is produced by The Avener.[10]

  1. ^ "Sting – Sacred Love (Album)". swedishcharts. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Sting | Discography | Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing), CD". Sting.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Critic reviews for Sacred Love". Metacritic. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  4. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Sacred Love – Sting: Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  5. ^ Sinclair, Tom (3 October 2003). "Music Review: Sacred Love (2003) – Sting". Entertainment Weekly. No. 731. ISSN 1049-0434. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  6. ^ MacNeil, Jason (10 December 2003). "Sting: Sacred Love". PopMatters. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  7. ^ Wild, David (24 September 2003). "Sacred Love". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  8. ^ a b "Sacred Love". Sting.com. 30 September 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  9. ^ Presse, Prisma (15 September 2015). "Mylène Farmer: Un nouvel album au titre évocateur - Gala". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  10. ^ "Mylène Farmer et Sting en duo - Stolen Car en écoute intégrale - Mylene.Net".