Once the frontwoman of UK band Blue Zone, which saw modest success with their single "Jackie", she became a major international star beginning with her guest vocal stint on Coldcut's record People Hold On.
Stansfield is probably best known for her first UK #1 single, All Around the World (1989), which also peaked at #3 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year. Other worldwide hits from her debut solo album Affection include This is the Right Time (featuring a house music-styled production by Coldcut with Mark Saunders), Live Together, What Did I Do To You? and You Can't Deny It. "All Around the World" was the second song by a white female soloist to hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart (the first being "Ooo La La La" by Teena Marie in 1988). "You Can't Deny It" also topped that chart. Affection went platinum in the U.S., and sold a total of five million copies worldwide.
In 1990, Stansfield was among a handful of high-profile artists to participate in the Red Hot + Blue charity album, which honored the songwriting career of Cole Porter, and benefitted AIDS research at a time when funding from government agencies was insufficient for those in need. She was given the chance to show her swing and jazz chops on the song "Down in the Depths" (video), which was one of a few throwback renditions to appear on the album. This likely won her the female lead in the independent film Swing (1999), for which soundtrack she also performed most of the songs. Thus began an illustrious and respected tradition of Stansfield offering jazz and torch songs to outside projects (she also sang I've Got the World on a String in the original movie soundtrack of 2003's Mona Lisa Smile).
In 1992, Stansfield won a BRIT Award as best British female solo artist. Her second album Real Love did not quite live up to the success of Affection, despite selling very well. However, it did spawn four Top 40 singles on the European charts: Change, All Woman, Time to Make You Mine and Set Your Loving Free. "Change" has since become one of her signature classics, and still receives regular air-play to this day. "All Woman" became Stansfield's third #1 single on the Billboard R&B chart, and due to the success of that song, the album went gold in the U.S. Filled with pathos and emotion, it is "kitchen sink soul", from the viewpoint of a woman taken for granted. Like "All Around the World", many critics initially believed that it had been performed by a black singer.
Stansfield continued recording disco-influenced soul throughout the 1990s. Her third album So Natural (1993) spawned three Top 40 European singles including the title track So Natural, In All the Right Places and Little Bit of Heaven, but the album was never released in the U.S. She had continued success throughout Europe, but her popularity in America had diminished.
sidenote: "In All The Right Places" was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Indecent Proposal (1993), for which Stansfield was shortlisted as the lead that eventually went to Demi Moore. You can catch her talking about it in this YouTube interview clip (@ 1:30).
Her self-titled fourth album Lisa Stansfield (1997) was a hit in Europe with two Top Ten singles - People Hold On (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Mix) (a re-released dance mix by The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and The Real Thing, and the Top 40 track Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (a remake of the late Barry White's 1973 hit). Upon being released in the U.S., the album scored some mainstream attention, but fared much better in the dance clubs where remixes were very successful; an astonishing four singles - "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up", Never Gonna Fall, I'm Leavin', and "People Hold On" reached #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. It charted modestly, peaking at #30 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #55 on the Billboard 200. Subsequently, The Remix Album was released due to revived interest in Stansfield within the dance community. The music video for "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (video) was an eye-catcher featuring her strolling nude down a city street, acquiring a few items of clothing along the way. VH1 featured the clip and even gave it the Pop-Up Video treatment. During the promotion for the single, Stansfield appeared on the RuPaul Show, but inexplicably, did not sing the song (or any others, for that matter).
Her 2001 album Face Up was less successful, barely charting through a lack of publicity, but featured the singles Let's Just Call It Love and 8-3-1, which found her experimenting with newer styles of R&B such as 2-step while continuing with her established sound. Stansfield's husband, Ian Devaney, delivered an arrangement for the ballad How Could You?, which displayed his love of Burt Bacharach's legacy. Only one single was officially released in the UK.
Following the release of Face Up, a 2-CD greatest hits collection titled Biography: The Greatest Hits was released in 2003, which sold well in the UK and Europe. Stansfield then parted ways with Arista/BMG, ending an 18-year association with the label.
Stansfield signed with ZTT Records from the UK, and her 2004 release The Moment was produced by Trevor Horn, well-known for his work with Seal, Grace Jones, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, among others. The album was distributed in Europe by Edel, featuring the singles Treat Me Like a Woman (released as a double A-side with Easier) and If I Hadn't Got You, a song written by Chris Braide with ex-Squeeze songwriter Chris Difford. The album found her exploring more pop-oriented material, and focusing on lush ballads.
Despite this, as with her previous release, the album and supporting singles were not a success. At the time of the project's release, ZTT was directing large amounts of its resources into re-marketing its back catalogue, and producing the Trevor Horn concert for The Prince's Trust and its accompanying double CD Produced by Trevor Horn. The release of "Treat Me Like a Woman" was twice delayed, and the label eventually paired it with "Easier". While ZTT did erect a billboard to advertise the album in Stansfield's home area of Greater Manchester, print advertising and in-store displays were reportedly absent. Later that year ZTT dropped her from their label.
Stansfield's talents also extended into acting; she starred in the 1999 film Swing with actor Hugo Speer, and recorded covers of swing classics and a few original songs written in the style for the soundtrack. She later appeared on a London stage in The Vagina Monologues. In 2006, she guest-starred in the series Goldplated. In 2007, she starred in an episode of Marple: Ordeal by Innocence, and later joined the cast of The Edge of Love.
On June 2012, Lisa told the UK newspaper, The Sunday Mirror that she's working on her seventh studio album, her first in nine years, and that it is going to be released in spring 2013. Lisa announced in November 2012 that the album will be titled 'Seven'.
Official website: http://www.lisa-stansfield.com
Somewhere In Time
Lisa Stansfield Lyrics
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And I'll love you
Love you true
If you won't I won't tell
Even though we've been through hell
In my heart I will love you forever baby
But we know it just can't be now
This thing it bigger than both of us
And baby believe it because...
[Chorus:]
Somewhere in time I will swear you'll be mine
And I'll love you, ooh ooh
Somewhere in time there's no reason no rhyme
But I'll love you, ooh ooh
Baby there's no way of knowing
But baby your feelings are showing
Somewhere in time I will swear you'll be mine
'cause' I love you
Love you true
It's right that they don't know
And it's only right, only right that I should go
But if you'll wait I'll wait too
I'll wait all my life
All my life and more for you
This thing is bigger than both of us
And baby believe it because...
Somewhere in time I will swear you'll be mine
'cause' I love you
Love you true
There will be better days
But for now let's just say good-bye
So hold on to me just one last time
Hold on to me and baby, baby
You've got to believe
[Chorus x 2]
Baby there's no way of knowing
But baby your feelings are showing
Somewhere in time I will swear you'll be mine
'cause' I love you
Love you true
The song "Somewhere in Time" by Lisa Stansfield is a bittersweet love song that talks about two people who cannot be together because of circumstances beyond their control. The lyrics suggest a deep, everlasting love that transcends time and space. The singer swears that someday, they will be together and their love will be true. The lyrics suggest that although the couple has been through hell, their love will endure.
The singer acknowledges that there is no way of knowing if they will ever be together, but the feelings in their heart are undeniable. The lyrics suggest that the couple must say goodbye for now but that their love will remain strong. The chorus repeats the phrase "Somewhere in time, I will swear you'll be mine, and I'll love you, ooh ooh." This lyric means that someday the couple will be together, in their own version of time, and their love will finally be able to flourish.
Overall, the lyrics of "Somewhere in Time" convey a sense of deep love and longing that can't be denied. While the couple is forced to part ways for now, their love will continue to grow and thrive until they can finally be together.
Line by Line Meaning
Somewhere in time I will swear you'll be mine
At some point in the future, I promise that you will be mine
And I'll love you
I will love you passionately and deeply
Love you true
I will love you honestly and faithfully
If you won't I won't tell
I will keep your secrets if you don't reciprocate my love
Even though we've been through hell
Despite the difficulties we've faced together
In my heart I will love you forever baby
My love for you will last forever, even if we can't be together
But we know it just can't be now
We are aware that it's not possible to be together at this moment
So baby farewell
Goodbye for now
This thing it bigger than both of us
Our love is immense and beyond our control
And baby believe it because...
Trust me, it's true
Somewhere in time there's no reason no rhyme
We can't explain why we love each other so much, but we just do
But I'll love you, ooh ooh
Nevertheless, I will always love you
Baby there's no way of knowing
There's no certainty about the future of our love
But baby your feelings are showing
It's clear that you have strong feelings for me
It's right that they don't know
It's appropriate that others are not aware of our love
And it's only right, only right that I should go
It's fair that I should leave
But if you'll wait I'll wait too
If you're willing to wait, I will too
I'll wait all my life
I'll wait my entire life if I have to
All my life and more for you
And even beyond my life, I'll wait for you
There will be better days
Things will get better for us someday
But for now let's just say good-bye
But for now, we must part ways
So hold on to me just one last time
Let's hold each other one final time
You've got to believe
You have to trust that our love is real
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: IAN OWEN DEVANEY, LISA JANE STANSFIELD, RICHARD SIMON DARBYSHIRE
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