Say something interesting about sting/police

that was written under duress though. also "Rock Steady" attempts to be a cute Bible song and those are just never ever good

what was the last great song that sting wrote?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, February 7, 2024 6:02 PM

Why Should I Cry for You

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 7, 2024 6:05 PM

Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
What would it mean to say,
I loved you in my fashion?

^^ he sings it quite well too

What's wrong with "We'll Be Together"? I liked it at the time, and heard it in Barnes & Noble this past weekend and still liked it.

"We'll Be Together" sounds cheap: one of the more crasser let-me-assemble-a-hit things. He didn't have a clue how to arrange the backup singers or how to use the Casio organ preset.

"Hauling on frozen ropes"

That's the line that gets me. The metaphor has to be that you wish to do something that is possible, but difficult.

A much more nuanced metaphor than trying to do something impossible, or trying to do something that us easy.

Why should I try?

The card metaphor is overdone, but I've always liked "Shape of My Heart."

i thought i liked that one too, but i just went back to it - and though it's still got a certain prettiness to it, it also embodies the dreariness of tone and tempo that made his albums such a bore

Hip-hop artists looooooved that track