Beyoncé might not say much outside her music but she’ll never pass up an opportunity to gush about Sade, having shouted her out in a Harper’s Bazaar interview and posting a handwritten letter about how much the singer has meant to her. “For years, I’ve turned to Sade for inspiration,” Bey wrote on her website in 2012. “I cannot even begin to count the nights, days, hard times—when I need her—she is there, to inspire me, and brighten me. Her music has been a true friend, as all true music should be.”
For her next Sade tribute? Recreating the 1992 Love Deluxe cover, in a new photo shoot and (likely emailed) interview in i-D Magazine. Alas, the Bey Q&A doesn’t mention Sade herself—it’s largely about her hair product line Cécred—but it does include another homage, of Diana Ross’ Forever boxset art. You can check that one out over on i-D. Sade is set to be inducted into—but not appear at—the Rock Hall on November 14.
