Don't understand why so many people value some "rockstars" opinion over everything.
I think it mainly comes down to the fact if people enjoy doing a cover or not.
If people from famous bands seriously get offended by a cover then I don't know what to say

 

From my first listen to Every Breath You Take I thought that it had creepy lyrics set into a crafty pop tune. Another freak of a Sting composition is Don't Stand So Close To Me.

Sting used to come to Topanga for an Ayurvedic form of bodywork from an ex-friend of mine who had scammed everyone into believing that he was a good person but turned out to be the absolutely cruelest black hearted human that I personally ever knew. This guy had a heart of evil and Sting treated him like a guru.

Just a story....

 

But Sting is a good person? have you met them? I've only seen him at concerts and talking on tv or internet, he always gave me the impression that he is a good person.

This was the first song I heard as a first time music fan, I mean. I was 4 or 5 years old and with my mom we lived in the country, and all the music I knew was from TV or Radio. When we traveled to the capital where my grandmother and uncles lived. They had cassettes of all kinds of music and records (Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Police, etc). There was also national music, from here, from Argentina. But I remember to this day, I played that cassette and the first song was Don't Stand So Close To Me, it was the first song on side A. And I was obsessed with that song, and I just wanted to listen to that song, so I would rewind the cassette and play it again, and again and again. And I remember my uncle saying "Listen to the whole cassette or else the artist is going to be sad" hahaha. So you could say that was my first influence in music. Since then I always listen to 90% of international music.

 

Sting angered his parents by claiming to be from a very poor family, which wasn't true, they were just working class - his father was a milkman and Sting accompanied him on his rounds most mornings as a teen. Working class parents often spend most of their free money on their children so you can imagine how they felt when he claimed that - I think they said that he wanted for nothing. In fact he became a teacher which is more of a middle-class aspiration. If I was to be kind to what Sting said I would say that the area he grew up in and the North East of England generally was/is extremely poor in comparison to the South of the country; these were/are heavy-industry towns and I imagine when Sting had escaped this for the bright lights and millionairdom it would have been quite a shock to him when he revisited his home town and maybe he wrongfully felt embarrassed by where he was from. In later life he seems to have reconsidered and grown a huge respect for his humble beginnings, writing and producing a play about shipbuilding in the area. He reconnected with his roots.

 

I'm not saying Sting is evil, just relating peripheral knowledge surrounding the song brought up in the post. I enjoy both songs although the subject matter is odd but feel him to be a great artist (along with other artists sometimes interesting decisions). The evil dude named F*l*x was a great liar and I'm sure played Sting as just another mark.

 

Motives of composer's, writers aside....
The best thing about these clips is one simple thing these days...
THEY ARE DOING IT ALL WITH REAL INSTRUMENTS AND VOICES WITH NO AUTO-TUNE IN A WORLD OF CANNED AND STREAMED MUSIC.

And for something both similar and completely different for a student choir
The dynamics are great, and they're having a great time.

 

Word, DuDe. Word... Well, good words, or rather sentences. hic