The instrumentals are just so hypnotic and precise, and Sting's voice soars with the melody. It may have creepy overtones in the lyrics, but I sing along every time it comes up on the radio or a playlist.
@Julius Mazepin Yes it is about an obsession but as Paul Heap says, it's obsession to the point of stalking that person. Both are important and related factors.
Years ago I heard Sting say in an interview that people would tell him, "We consider Every Breath You Take to be OUR song!" He said he'd think, "Wow, I'd hate to have your relationship," or something like that.
I think nowadays, he's more or less resigned himself to the fact that people *are* going to read into it what they want to read into it, regardless of his original intentions, and there's no point in trying to talk them out of it anymore.
Yep, "Heroes" by David Bowie went that way, too. It's so obviously about a relationship that's imploding when you suss out the lyrics, but if the German people wanted to think it was about the eventual collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the rest of the world wanting to think it's about people doing something to help someone else, if only for a moment, who was Bowie to say otherwise?
I actually never " figured it out" that stalking was the premise, by listening to the song. I actually heard an interview done with STING, and the interviewer was talking about how the song had turned into a wedding and anniversary favorite....and STING said that it was funny to him how a song that he had written about surveillance, ( his own words) had turned into a song that people were using for stating their love to each other, and being used at weddings and the like.😂😂 I was floored, as was the interviewer. It's interesting because , any time you listen to the song it still winds up having a beautiful meaning.... because there is nothing that alludes to it being about someone, going overboard with obsessive surveillance of another individual. It's obvious from the song, that this person cares greatly and has been affected deeply in the heart, by someone else ...but again , it does not say that they are in fact stalking the other individual per se. Anyway, STING of course is a musical genius , and his drummer is a madman with awesome chops.. lol
@@langlsd1604 For sure.. he has some SOLID jazz chops as a solo artist and with the Police he flawlessly incorporated that vast pallet into rock/reggae
Robin Porter Really I’ve actually seen him in an interview say he wrote it after breaking up with his first wife when he was having a little bit of a mental breakdown and was obsessing over what she was doing
czcams.com/video/LAqBuHXbUns/video.html. Here he is actually doing an interview talking about it’s the break up of his first marriage and it’s a sinister song about his compulsion to basically keep tabs on her
I saw Sting interviewed years ago and when asked about this song & what it is about: Sting said" its about the government" he smiled and that was all he said. He seemed sincere. Glad u enjoyed JAMEL !
O B S E S S I O N If the song was slowed down, in a minor key? Like Chase does? czcams.com/video/0PLNsymQi3Y/video.html Then maybe folks wouldn't use it at their fricken weddings...
I'm glad you brought it up, J. This was another one of those songs, like "More Than Words", that 99% of people completely misunderstood. The number of times I've had to explain that this song is about stalking is unreal. People get all angry trying to insist that these songs are love songs. Even the artists have had to come out and explain the songs. I'm glad you LISTEN to the lyrics. SMFH! Stay safe everyone. Cheers from Florida.
This song was from the last album by the Police, "Synchronicity". The name of the album was also the "theme" of the album. Every song explored some aspect of the phenomenon of synchronicity. This song is meant to show the strange relationship between love and obsession. Some of the people who hear it think "romantic, he's saying he'll always be there to care for and protect", others hear the ominous tones of an unhealthy mind. It shows how two very different things can often follow the same pattern.
King of Pain is great one too.🙂 I believe Sting wrote this about his divorce & how that played out. Like she was out the door & he was still invested but seeing her actions clearly for the first time. I don't think its stalking, more like the veil being lifted on a bad relationship.
This is one of those songs that he's mentioned different meanings to over the years. I like the idea that it was his take on the Cold War, but that one's been mostly forgotten over the years
The stalker song. Lmao. I remember the look on a couple girls faces when they figured out what the song was really about. I was happy to show them lyrics. Oh yeah, another ZZ Top request. Heard It On the X.
@William Rochr It still amazes me how many people still insist this is a romantic song. I had a similar experience when I was putting together a CD (yes it was back then) of songs the wedding of a couple I know. This was on their list and when I told them, I had to play the song to them telling them to think like a stalker before they got it. It didn't make it to the wedding.
This song is SO personal to me💔 My sister passed away 6 years ago and one thing we had in common was music and our love for this band.. So every time I hear this song I know she's there, with me
I'm 50 and when this song came out none of us thought it was anything other than a love song. And we loved the lyrics. I still do. It's called PASSION! lol
Backstory: members of the band were in bands called Curved Air, Last Exit, Animals. Their manager was formerly in the CI A, and his brother was the drummer. They were originally a punk band, mixing in elements of ska, reggae and jazz. Each member is now considered very influential and one of the best in their respective fields:Sting as a vocalist, bassist and songwriter/lyricist, Andy Summer as a guitarist/composer and Stewart Copeland as a drummer/ composer. All had successful careers after the breakup, with Sting being the most successful and well known. The band, along with UB40, Madness and others introduced English style reggae to the US.
I remember my mom playing this when I was a preteen. I looked at her and said it sounded like a stalker song. She was like no, it is romantic. I was a bit of a young cynic. 😆
A friend of mine had a young teenage son who loved the band Police . He had been in a little trouble nothing major, when she heard this song by the Police, she would say-I’ll be watching you-with a smile on her face, he did grow up ok no more trouble. Every time I hear this I think of her
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is from Sting's first solo album, *The Dream of the Blue Turtles*, which came out in 1985. Two other songs from that album worth checking out are "Russians" and "Fortress Around Your Heart".
Lyrically, the meaning of the song is unmistakable -- he literally says, "I'll be watching you"! What could be more clear? The song is great in its own right, but the brilliance of the video is in its minimalist nature -- monochrome, just three musicians playing and singing. Musically and visually, one of the best things to come from the 80s.
hey man. its a double stander when it comes to this song . the lyrics can be about a crazy person . or it can be about a person in love with someone who cant live without them .
I used to go and watch Sting when he was known as Gordon Sumner and was playing the Newcastle pub circuit with his band Last Exit back in the early 1970s. He got the nickname 'Sting' because he always used to wear a yellow and black striped rugby shirt.
If we're going into Sting's Solo Career, three-quarters of the "Fields of Gold" album (including "Fields of Gold" is worth the listen. Many hidden gems on "Mercury Falling" as well.
Yeeees!!!! This song was used in a soap opera I used to watch back in the 80’s this lady was kidnapped by a stalker and they were playing this in the background .. it’s actually here on CZcams .. it’s pretty creepy lol but I love this song! Cool reaction 😄
The band can sell any kind of cover story they want to the public. But to me, this song will always be about the Big Brother surveillance state, as forewarned by many writers, including George Orwell's '1984' ... Heck, the band is even called THE POLICE!!!
Sting was so amused . When it was listed as the most used Wedding Song in the eighties . And like all Police great songs . Copelands awesome drumming jumps out .
I met Sting once after a concert in Madison, WI. He was fantastic! Also notice that every video he's in he doesn't stand next to the other band members. The camera shots make him look taller than he is. He's as thin as a toothpick and about 5'6" tall. But oh boy is he handsome and talented beyond belief!!
👍, for the reaction. You also have to remember that in 83 there was no such thing as stalking; but from the beginning I understood that it was about longing & obsession.
Reaction request for Cornelius Brothers and Sisters Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady and Too Late To Turn Back Now. Great songs and group! You will enjoy these as well!
Sting went solo 2 years later, The Dream of the Blue Turtles was the name of the album. If you love someone set them free was the first single, then Russians but the best was Fortress around your heart, Love is the 7th wave is good too ,really reggae influenced
My dad is a retired LAPD Captain (one of the first FilAms to do it) when he was a patrol officer when we were kids in the late 70s and early 80s, my fraternal twin sister would play this song, over and over (Vinyl). My dad had to hear it playing from her room for days, weekends etc. He said, "Maddie, that song sounds like a very possessive/obsessive boy friend. This better not be a song some boy asked you to listen to!"... LMAO!
Jamal, Sting has used some of these lyrics several times as adlibs in his solo songs... Have a look/listen at "Love is the Seventh Wave" by Sting as a solo artist.. at the end he plugs in this melody and a couple words as the song fades .. VERY different songs though :)
I always loved the irony of including lyrics from a song about obsession and jealousy, a song about the dark side of "love", in a song about how love can solve our problems.
Get a look at something from Sting’s solo work, like “If you love someone set them free” or “Fields of Gold” very different sound..more adult contemporary
THE VIBE I GET FROM THIS SONG IS ABOUT A DEEP LOVE AND LONGING FOR SOMEONE, AND ITS QUITE SAD REALLY, BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY HAS BEEN THERE AT LEAST ONCE!
When this song first came out, it was right around the time when a loved one of mine had passed and I imagined them watching me from heaven. It may seem silly now, especially with everyone insisting it's about stalking, but at the time it brought me a lot of comfort.
I love the fact that you have short introductions to your reactions. A lot of other reactors on CZcams drone on and on before they get to the reaction.
I had originally stumbled across your videos and channel by accident and have been watching your video reactions to mostly mainstream Top 40, rock or metal videos and even some songs in other languages. I have yet to see you react to songs in other genres of "rock" such as Post Punk, Goth, Darkwave, Coldwave, Shoegaze etc. etc. (for starters). I know you've reacted to a few New Wave and Synthwave songs (both genres which are connected to the others I mentioned) so, how about checking out some well known songs from bands in all those genres like: The Chameleons - Here Today Joy Division - Something Must Break A Flock Of Seagulls - Quicksand Clan Of Xymox - Muscoviet Mosquito The Psychedelic Furs - All Of The Law The Cure - One Hundred Years The Sisters Of Mercy - Marian Gary Numan - Metal Modern English - Life In The Gladhouse Siouxsie (pronounced "Susie") & The Banshees - Fireworks Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers Cocteau Twins - Serpentskirt
Think it's more of a love lost, and wanting to still be connected to that person in everything they do in the future without you, because you think there is a little part of you living through that person still in what they do. That's my interpretation. Could be relevant to someone who passed away, .... or the creepy stalker theme also. Ohhhh, that Sting is a crafty one, ain't he?
I think what made this song so particularly ominous and really made it stick out back in the early 80s when it came out (provided you really listened to and absorbed the lyrics) was that at that time 'stalking' wasn't a crime. Not only was it difficult to get other people to believe the victims of stalking that anything was actually going on, but it was almost impossible to prosecute stalkers as there were no laws against it. Not only that, a lot of the behaviours of stalking were often coded as grand gestures of love and attachment and were not recognized as abusive or threatening. Stalking really only came into the mainstream in the late 80s and early 90s following a number of high-profile cases that involved the murder of actresses and celebrities. Before this ever happened, just imagine going to the police and saying that some creep has been following you, calling you, hanging outside your house, your job etc and being told that there was nothing that could be done because no crime had been committed. That was the reality of this song -- a stalker who operated with impunity -- and that's why the lyrics are so ominous.
That's a love song, a desperate hopeless love but love nevertheless, it's not about someone waiting to be able to hurt someone else, that's the way we saw it back in the day...
Video was modeled after old b/w jazz musicians just doing their thing. It is a thing of beauty when the music, the lyrics, and the performance come together so perfectly. Despite being a HUGE Police fan, I couldn't listen to this song for years because it was EVERYWHERE (I turned on the freaking Sopranos and there it was). II am finding myself with a renewed appreciation.
If I remember correctly (from an interview I saw with Sting) this song was originally written as a love song, in a matter of 15 minutes. It was after its release that Sting came out and renounced that it sounded like a stalker. He didn’t write it about stalking.
Hello mate. I just happen to come across one of your vids and it reminded me of how much of a fan of the Police I was back in the day. I am 56 and live in Adelaide in South Australia. The first concert I ever went to without my parents was the Police at Memorial Drive Tennis centre in Adelaide in 1980. I have 5 or 6 LPs. Thank you for making me reflect and get a little emotional if I'm honest. I liked your reaction to all the Police videos as i have now watched all of them. Cheers from Chris
It really doesn’t matter what the artist is thinking about when the lyrics are written. It’s how YOU interpret the song. Amy Grant’s “Baby, Baby” is a song about her child, but it sounds like a romantic song.
Summer 1983, this was a hit! That was one of my best most favourite summers and times of my childhood. I was 10 years old and still to this day, this song sounds amazing! The sound is dreamy, soothing, beautiful, in the clouds... (putting aside that it's about a stocker lol) the melody, the instruments, is voice, absolutely beautiful! Out of the hundreds of weddings I've been to in my life, yeah, I can't recall it being played... lol 39 years later and this is now an iconic legend. I've loved these guys since I was about 6. Great sound, uniqueness in their own kind. Love them!
Sting said he wrote "If You Love Somebody: as an antidote to 'Ever Breath You Take". He said people would approach him gushing that Evey Breath was "their Song" and he'd just cringe knowing what the song was actually about.
Regardless of the actual meaning behind the lyrics this is one of the most beautiful pop songs ever created.
The instrumentals are just so hypnotic and precise, and Sting's voice soars with the melody. It may have creepy overtones in the lyrics, but I sing along every time it comes up on the radio or a playlist.
It creeps me out too much to enjoy it.
For a stalker
Played in one take. The Police were such a hot flame for too short.
True- just beautiful. I put it in the same category of"With Or Without You" by U2.
I saw an interview with Sting and he said when people tell him that this song was played at their wedding, he just smiles and says "Good luck"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ooof... dude playing this at your wedding is like playing "time to dance" at your wedding reception... my in laws are still looking at me sideways
LOL
Highly intelligent & sarcastic, lovely man.
it's more about obssesion after a break up
"since you've gone i've been lost without a trace" implies he was in a previous relationship
Exactly, not being able to move on after a failed relationship, i think it's as dark as you make it.
Stalking an ex lover, then.
@Julius Mazepin Yes it is about an obsession but as Paul Heap says, it's obsession to the point of stalking that person. Both are important and related factors.
After his first divorce.
"There's a little black spot on the sun today... it's the same ol' thing as yesterday..." - "King of Pain" by The Police.
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop
(it's my soul up there)
My favorite song they do!
Must do.
and the cover by Mudvayne
This song is perfection. Subtle, elegant, ominous, beautiful.
Another deranged ex song by this band is "can't stand losing you".
If you want to take deranged a step further listen to their song Murder By Numbers. Great song but with macabre lyrics.
Years ago I heard Sting say in an interview that people would tell him, "We consider Every Breath You Take to be OUR song!" He said he'd think, "Wow, I'd hate to have your relationship," or something like that.
I think nowadays, he's more or less resigned himself to the fact that people *are* going to read into it what they want to read into it, regardless of his original intentions, and there's no point in trying to talk them out of it anymore.
Yep, "Heroes" by David Bowie went that way, too. It's so obviously about a relationship that's imploding when you suss out the lyrics, but if the German people wanted to think it was about the eventual collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the rest of the world wanting to think it's about people doing something to help someone else, if only for a moment, who was Bowie to say otherwise?
I never get tired of this song. It’s a masterpiece. I wish P. Diddy would have never used this song.
SAME.
Obviously the Police disagreed since they gave him permission to use it.
@@sandykirkendall3211 Their f'up imo.
I actually never " figured it out" that stalking was the premise, by listening to the song. I actually heard an interview done with STING, and the interviewer was talking about how the song had turned into a wedding and anniversary favorite....and STING said that it was funny to him how a song that he had written about surveillance, ( his own words) had turned into a song that people were using for stating their love to each other, and being used at weddings and the like.😂😂 I was floored, as was the interviewer. It's interesting because , any time you listen to the song it still winds up having a beautiful meaning.... because there is nothing that alludes to it being about someone, going overboard with obsessive surveillance of another individual. It's obvious from the song, that this person cares greatly and has been affected deeply in the heart, by someone else ...but again , it does not say that they are in fact stalking the other individual per se. Anyway, STING of course is a musical genius , and his drummer is a madman with awesome chops.. lol
As I recall, Sting said he wrote this song during a dark time in his life, and he really hates that people use it for weddings, lol.
This song sounds like a restraining order. 🤣
Hahahaha 😂
Spot on
Ha, ha, ha, ha .... good one.
Obsession. It’s not healthy
They don’t call it the Stalker’s Anthem for nothing.
This is one of those songs what young guitar players even today want to master. That epic guitar arpeggio by Andy Summers
Andy Summers is EXTREMELY underrated as a guitar player, in my humble opinion.
@@langlsd1604 For sure.. he has some SOLID jazz chops as a solo artist and with the Police he flawlessly incorporated that vast pallet into rock/reggae
@@langlsd1604 Check out John 5 including Police tracks in his live medleys. He knows.
A few years later Sting wrote "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" as a sort of antidote to this.
Ahhhhh the song everyone thought was a love song but it’s actually about being a complete and total stalker
Actually, Sting came out and said it was about Big Brother watching you, not a stalker. The stalker story was a lie.
Robin Porter Really I’ve actually seen him in an interview say he wrote it after breaking up with his first wife when he was having a little bit of a mental breakdown and was obsessing over what she was doing
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Here he is actually doing an interview talking about it’s the break up of his first marriage and it’s a sinister song about his compulsion to basically keep tabs on her
Just like blondie one way or another
Almost its about big brother police state surveillance
I saw Sting interviewed years ago and when asked about this song & what it is about: Sting said" its about the government" he smiled and that was all he said. He seemed sincere. Glad u enjoyed JAMEL !
It’s funny people think this is a love song. Sting was going through a very difficult time in his life when he wrote this song.
We used to call it the stalker song...Lol.
Nothing romantic about it..!
O B S E S S I O N
If the song was slowed down, in a minor key? Like Chase does?
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Then maybe folks wouldn't use it at their fricken weddings...
Divorce.
"Wrapped around your finger" is another song by the police you MUST REACT TO.
miller kingdom yeeeessss! Very deep, dark song, and one of my favs!
I listen to that song on repeat,love it😎
"Tea In The Sahara". :)
this and Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" are two songs everybody misunderstands the meaning of
Don't forget "Gimme Shelter" and "Brown Sugar" Everybody loves the sound and the melodies...but not that many people READ THE LYRICS.
We can throw "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" onto the pile as well
Also Neil Young "Rockin In The Free World"
@@shawnloeffler6025 if you really want a Cyndi Lauper song we have to include "She Bop" LOL
Pumped up kicks by Foster the People is another one. Got a nice happy tune... the lyrics not so much
I'm glad you brought it up, J. This was another one of those songs, like "More Than Words", that 99% of people completely misunderstood. The number of times I've had to explain that this song is about stalking is unreal. People get all angry trying to insist that these songs are love songs. Even the artists have had to come out and explain the songs. I'm glad you LISTEN to the lyrics. SMFH! Stay safe everyone. Cheers from Florida.
I can't believe people are playing this at their wedding.
@@selah71 I guess it depends how they met? Stay safe.
@@kingbrutusxxvi
We're sheltering in place. You stay safe, too.
Cheers from Ohio.
More than words is just another dude trying to pressure a woman into sex before she's ready. Same story, different day lol
This song was from the last album by the Police, "Synchronicity". The name of the album was also the "theme" of the album. Every song explored some aspect of the phenomenon of synchronicity. This song is meant to show the strange relationship between love and obsession. Some of the people who hear it think "romantic, he's saying he'll always be there to care for and protect", others hear the ominous tones of an unhealthy mind. It shows how two very different things can often follow the same pattern.
If you’re gonna do anymore Police songs, you gotta give “So Lonely” a listen. Not the “official” music video, but a live version. Great song!
great song . very under appreciated
Hutt Wigley walking on the moon too......So lonely is excellent too! 👍
spirits in the material world is a good one and no time this time is a real high tempo favorite of mine
@@kensyskye8965 wrapped around your finger, king of pain, the list goes on and on
A lot of people in the UK thought So Lonely was about Sue Lawley, a popular newsreader at the time!
Sting's voice is so damn good that the ladies forgave him for writing a song about being a total stalker :)
Probably his looks too
@Salem Me too Sting is incredibley debonair and sexy ❤
Stalking isn't stalking if the stalkee wants to be stalked
Yes we did.
Never thought his voice was good and never found him attractive
King of Pain is great one too.🙂
I believe Sting wrote this about his divorce & how that played out. Like she was out the door & he was still invested but seeing her actions clearly for the first time. I don't think its stalking, more like the veil being lifted on a bad relationship.
That's more of what I get from it as well.
"I miss you, but now I see what a horrible person you actually were."
Sting left his wife after he ran off with her best pal, his current wife, Trudie Styler, in 1982. Sting ex wife was double double-crossed.
@A S Me too.
This is one of those songs that he's mentioned different meanings to over the years. I like the idea that it was his take on the Cold War, but that one's been mostly forgotten over the years
@@metheus108 Yeah, when it turned out that Reagan actually was not the horrible monster, about to fry us all in nuclear fire, he changed his story....
Heard this song when I was 3 years old now 40. My pops favorite. Still a classic
Why isn't anybody requesting "King of Pain"???
We have, under several of his videos.....many times. LOL!
Love that song
Please review “Can’t Stand Losing You” by The Police
The stalker song. Lmao. I remember the look on a couple girls faces when they figured out what the song was really about. I was happy to show them lyrics. Oh yeah, another ZZ Top request. Heard It On the X.
@William Rochr It still amazes me how many people still insist this is a romantic song. I had a similar experience when I was putting together a CD (yes it was back then) of songs the wedding of a couple I know. This was on their list and when I told them, I had to play the song to them telling them to think like a stalker before they got it. It didn't make it to the wedding.
Another great stalking song is "One Way or Another" by Blondie.
Absolutely!!! Good call...
Yes. Great song.
And speaking of Blondie, he should react to "Rapture" by Blondie.
Good call hornkiller. Blondie don't appear nearly enough in reaction videos.
hornkiller Possession by Sarah McLaughlin is also about a stalker.
Yeah but in the end she's trying to get away. "After a time time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting." - Spock
This song is SO personal to me💔 My sister passed away 6 years ago and one thing we had in common was music and our love for this band.. So every time I hear this song I know she's there, with me
My condolences! 😞
BAD BREAK UP. HE CANT MOVE ON. TRUTH. DARK TIMES.
It took me about 20 years, it took me watching Sting being interviewed, and that is what he said it was about.
One of the best songs ever written,
Please react to Billy Idol: "Eyes without a Face", "White wedding", and "Dancing with Myself"
"White Wedding" makes me drive too fast...since I got licensed in 1992.
Eyes without a face is a great song
'Dancing With Myself' is one of my all-time favorites.
Rebel Yell and Flesh for Fantasy too, if you're doing Billy Idol
Just want to thank you love hearing your input on all the music, hope your well bro
"I'll be watching you" - switch to ominous minor chord
The Police were masters at making really pretty pop songs sound dark af.
Favorite thing about the song, lets you know this shit is serious.
I'm 50 and when this song came out none of us thought it was anything other than a love song. And we loved the lyrics. I still do. It's called PASSION! lol
Backstory: members of the band were in bands called Curved Air, Last Exit, Animals. Their manager was formerly in the CI A, and his brother was the drummer. They were originally a punk band, mixing in elements of ska, reggae and jazz. Each member is now considered very influential and one of the best in their respective fields:Sting as a vocalist, bassist and songwriter/lyricist, Andy Summer as a guitarist/composer and Stewart Copeland as a drummer/ composer. All had successful careers after the breakup, with Sting being the most successful and well known. The band, along with UB40, Madness and others introduced English style reggae to the US.
I remember my mom playing this when I was a preteen. I looked at her and said it sounded like a stalker song. She was like no, it is romantic. I was a bit of a young cynic. 😆
Thanks for taking my mind off all the madness we are going through
A friend of mine had a young teenage son who loved the band Police . He had been in a little trouble nothing major, when she heard this song by the Police, she would say-I’ll be watching you-with a smile on her face, he did grow up ok no more trouble. Every time I hear this I think of her
Spring 1983. This song just dominated the airwaves. It was big and it's influence hasn't wavered.
Check out Sting "Set them Free", ...an excellent song!
and lyrically its the exact opposite of Every Breath You Take
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is from Sting's first solo album, *The Dream of the Blue Turtles*, which came out in 1985. Two other songs from that album worth checking out are "Russians" and "Fortress Around Your Heart".
'They Dance Alone' and 'I'm So Happy That I Can't Stop Crying' are two great Sting songs that never got the attention they deserved.
He wrote it as a direct response to the misunderstanding of this song, lol.
Word. The Police is a dope band. I vote for more Who. Stay safe brother.
when did this band sell dope?
No more than Many Many others. If true.
Lyrically, the meaning of the song is unmistakable -- he literally says, "I'll be watching you"! What could be more clear? The song is great in its own right, but the brilliance of the video is in its minimalist nature -- monochrome, just three musicians playing and singing. Musically and visually, one of the best things to come from the 80s.
Well his song took on a whole new meaning to me. Stalker!!! WOW~
Please review “King of Pain”
The only Police song he hasn't done that I hoped he would
I still want "Wrapped Around Your Finger" as well.
That one is strangely haunting somehow.
Then King of Suede, the Weird Al parody.
@@digitalis2977 true true
Let's do it!
hey man. its a double stander when it comes to this song . the lyrics can be about a crazy person . or it can be about a person in love with someone who cant live without them .
"Every vow you break, every smile you fake, every claim you stake, I'll be watching you." Yea, sounds like love? I sure hope not.
"Six of one and a half-dozen of the other". Cool name, by the way...
I used to go and watch Sting when he was known as Gordon Sumner and was playing the Newcastle pub circuit with his band Last Exit back in the early 1970s. He got the nickname 'Sting' because he always used to wear a yellow and black striped rugby shirt.
Saw them in concert in Detroit around 1982 and it was truly amazing! 10+
"Fortress around your heart" next please..
Yes yes yes. An underrated gem from the post-Police era.
If we're going into Sting's Solo Career, three-quarters of the "Fields of Gold" album (including "Fields of Gold" is worth the listen.
Many hidden gems on "Mercury Falling" as well.
Yeeees!!!! This song was used in a soap opera I used to watch back in the 80’s this lady was kidnapped by a stalker and they were playing this in the background .. it’s actually here on CZcams .. it’s pretty creepy lol but I love this song! Cool reaction 😄
Peggy Sullivan general Hospital, I believe
Great to relive all these classics with you Jamal- thx and God Bless you and all your family. From Ireland.
Please react to THE CURE "just like heaven" live, or "Lullaby" live
Pictures of you, Lovesong,
Plainsong
The band can sell any kind of cover story they want to the public. But to me, this song will always be about the Big Brother surveillance state, as forewarned by many writers, including George Orwell's '1984' ... Heck, the band is even called THE POLICE!!!
Exactly, what are these people smokin'?
Sting was so amused . When it was listed as the most used Wedding Song in the eighties . And like all Police great songs . Copelands awesome drumming jumps out .
Yes, more Police. Classic song.
This is the original that they used the remix to the song for biggies I'll be missing u.
There's actually a lot of songs that sound like they're about stalking someone. Wait till you hear Blondie- "One Way or Another".
One of my favorites by this group!!! ❤❤❤
I met Sting once after a concert in Madison, WI. He was fantastic! Also notice that every video he's in he doesn't stand next to the other band members. The camera shots make him look taller than he is. He's as thin as a toothpick and about 5'6" tall. But oh boy is he handsome and talented beyond belief!!
Jemel, do a reaction video to Sting's "Set them Free," which was meant as the "antidote" a few years after this song when he went solo.
Hey Bro, this song is not about stalking, is inspired by the novel “1984” by George Orwell, in fact this song is about the “big brother”.
Nope. He said years ago its about his obsession with his ex Francesca Annis after they broke up.
I think the Best Art is that which is open to multiple interpretations. And this is pure Art!
👍, for the reaction. You also have to remember that in 83 there was no such thing as stalking; but from the beginning I understood that it was about longing & obsession.
Please reviem “Spirits In The Material World”
Reaction request for Cornelius Brothers and Sisters Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady and Too Late To Turn Back Now. Great songs and group! You will enjoy these as well!
OMG "Treat Her Like A Lady" -- one of the best songs of all time
"It's too late to turn back now
I believe I believe I'm falling in love"
Wow, been a looong time! ❤
Peace Love And Light my friends! Namaste
Sting went solo 2 years later, The Dream of the Blue Turtles was the name of the album. If you love someone set them free was the first single, then Russians but the best was Fortress around your heart, Love is the 7th wave is good too ,really reggae influenced
My dad is a retired LAPD Captain (one of the first FilAms to do it) when he was a patrol officer when we were kids in the late 70s and early 80s, my fraternal twin sister would play this song, over and over (Vinyl). My dad had to hear it playing from her room for days, weekends etc.
He said, "Maddie, that song sounds like a very possessive/obsessive boy friend. This better not be a song some boy asked you to listen to!"... LMAO!
Kindly requesting a reaction to "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
great song
Oh yes! My favorite ELP
The long version is off the charts!
Jamal, Sting has used some of these lyrics several times as adlibs in his solo songs... Have a look/listen at "Love is the Seventh Wave" by Sting as a solo artist.. at the end he plugs in this melody and a couple words as the song fades .. VERY different songs though :)
Did that in a couple Police songs too
I always loved the irony of including lyrics from a song about obsession and jealousy, a song about the dark side of "love", in a song about how love can solve our problems.
My favourite LOVE SONG of all the times, thanks Jamel, yes, A LOVE SONG, there many ways of love even with sadness and obsession
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder once your art is out there it's up for interpretation.
Get a look at something from Sting’s solo work, like “If you love someone set them free” or “Fields of Gold” very different sound..more adult contemporary
Fields of Gold, one of his best, agreed.
This song STING made for his cheating wife . He then found true love with a Trudy Styler whom he’s been married to since .
8 weeks at number 1 in the US in 1983, says it all about how good this song is. Sting at his very best
THE VIBE I GET FROM THIS SONG IS ABOUT A DEEP LOVE AND LONGING FOR SOMEONE, AND ITS QUITE SAD REALLY, BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY HAS BEEN THERE AT LEAST ONCE!
My main man needs to check out some Blue Oyster Cult. He's been missing out.
Don't Fear The Reaper and Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll
Joan Crawford has Risen from the Grave and Veteran of a Thousand Psychic Wars.
The Police's "King of Pain" and then Weird Al Yankovic's "King of Suede" in that order please.
When this song first came out, it was right around the time when a loved one of mine had passed and I imagined them watching me from heaven. It may seem silly now, especially with everyone insisting it's about stalking, but at the time it brought me a lot of comfort.
I love the fact that you have short introductions to your reactions. A lot of other reactors on CZcams drone on and on before they get to the reaction.
I had originally stumbled across your videos and channel by accident and have been watching your video reactions to mostly mainstream Top 40, rock or metal videos and even some songs in other languages. I have yet to see you react to songs in other genres of "rock" such as Post Punk, Goth, Darkwave, Coldwave, Shoegaze etc. etc. (for starters).
I know you've reacted to a few New Wave and Synthwave songs (both genres which are connected to the others I mentioned) so, how about checking out some well known songs from bands in all those genres like:
The Chameleons - Here Today
Joy Division - Something Must Break
A Flock Of Seagulls - Quicksand
Clan Of Xymox - Muscoviet Mosquito
The Psychedelic Furs - All Of The Law
The Cure - One Hundred Years
The Sisters Of Mercy - Marian
Gary Numan - Metal
Modern English - Life In The Gladhouse
Siouxsie (pronounced "Susie") & The Banshees - Fireworks
Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers
Cocteau Twins - Serpentskirt
Hey, Jamal. Could you please react to Horse With No Name by America.
And about 5 other songs on their greatest hits album ...
I Need You is great, too. 👍
Never Found The Time is an underrated gem on their first album
and Tin man
Love so right by the bee gees
Sting..1 of the few; that Stayed Sober😍
A fantastic Sting song is "Fortress Around Your Heart". Wildly evocative song.
Think it's more of a love lost, and wanting to still be connected to that person in everything they do in the future without you, because you think there is a little part of you living through that person still in what they do.
That's my interpretation.
Could be relevant to someone who passed away, ....
or the creepy stalker theme also.
Ohhhh, that Sting is a crafty one, ain't he?
Top 10 favorite song all time for me. Bass riff gets me everytime.
I think what made this song so particularly ominous and really made it stick out back in the early 80s when it came out (provided you really listened to and absorbed the lyrics) was that at that time 'stalking' wasn't a crime. Not only was it difficult to get other people to believe the victims of stalking that anything was actually going on, but it was almost impossible to prosecute stalkers as there were no laws against it. Not only that, a lot of the behaviours of stalking were often coded as grand gestures of love and attachment and were not recognized as abusive or threatening.
Stalking really only came into the mainstream in the late 80s and early 90s following a number of high-profile cases that involved the murder of actresses and celebrities. Before this ever happened, just imagine going to the police and saying that some creep has been following you, calling you, hanging outside your house, your job etc and being told that there was nothing that could be done because no crime had been committed.
That was the reality of this song -- a stalker who operated with impunity -- and that's why the lyrics are so ominous.
In his solo album after this, Sting wrote If you Love Somebody Set Them Free, as sort of a response to this song. I highly recommend it.
That's a love song, a desperate hopeless love but love nevertheless, it's not about someone waiting to be able to hurt someone else, that's the way we saw it back in the day...
Indeed, for a few years after its release this song was the most popular for weddings in the UK..
Video was modeled after old b/w jazz musicians just doing their thing. It is a thing of beauty when the music, the lyrics, and the performance come together so perfectly. Despite being a HUGE Police fan, I couldn't listen to this song for years because it was EVERYWHERE (I turned on the freaking Sopranos and there it was). II am finding myself with a renewed appreciation.
If I remember correctly (from an interview I saw with Sting) this song was originally written as a love song, in a matter of 15 minutes. It was after its release that Sting came out and renounced that it sounded like a stalker. He didn’t write it about stalking.
Hello mate. I just happen to come across one of your vids and it reminded me of how much of a fan of the Police I was back in the day. I am 56 and live in Adelaide in South Australia. The first concert I ever went to without my parents was the Police at Memorial Drive Tennis centre in Adelaide in 1980. I have 5 or 6 LPs. Thank you for making me reflect and get a little emotional if I'm honest. I liked your reaction to all the Police videos as i have now watched all of them. Cheers from Chris
It"s about the government as stated by Sting who wrote it in 10 minutes. Song of the year.
It really doesn’t matter what the artist is thinking about when the lyrics are written. It’s how YOU interpret the song.
Amy Grant’s “Baby, Baby” is a song about her child, but it sounds like a romantic song.
Summer 1983, this was a hit! That was one of my best most favourite summers and times of my childhood. I was 10 years old and still to this day, this song sounds amazing! The sound is dreamy, soothing, beautiful, in the clouds... (putting aside that it's about a stocker lol) the melody, the instruments, is voice, absolutely beautiful! Out of the hundreds of weddings I've been to in my life, yeah, I can't recall it being played... lol
39 years later and this is now an iconic legend.
I've loved these guys since I was about 6. Great sound, uniqueness in their own kind. Love them!
Thank you for entertaining us!
Enjoy your videos...and you are on the front lines at work serving the public as well....thanks...hero.
A classic tune! The Police changed my life!!!
Sting said he wrote "If You Love Somebody: as an antidote to 'Ever Breath You Take". He said people would approach him gushing that Evey Breath was "their Song" and he'd just cringe knowing what the song was actually about.
Great song. Unmistakable voice.