The Lady in Red

Perpetrator: Chris de Burgh
Highest Chart Position: #3, 1987
Sap Elements: Love, arrangement, overweening emotion

Could this be called technosap? The metronomic rhythm-box beat, the mellow guitar & keyboards, and synthesized backing vocals add a robotic touch to what's a standard ballad. Goopy, yes. But is it sap, or some weird New Wave/sap hybrid? (The closing "I love you" is a nice touch.)

-- SAPster Half

The closing "I love you" puts it over the edge for me. And the fact that it was later used in a commercial for Weight Watchers frozen dinners has to lend it some amount of sap cred.

-- SAPster Randi

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