The Police – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Sun, 23 May 2021 14:43:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png The Police – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com 32 32 Day 432: Wrapped around your finger, The Police https://bensonium.com/song/wrapped-around-your-finger-the-police/ https://bensonium.com/song/wrapped-around-your-finger-the-police/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 23:00:44 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=3216 This one of the Police’s strangest songs. I cite this song straight after yesterday’s song by Dido Life for Rent because apparently it is about a guy submitting to his girlfriend in a relationship but in the final verse he turns the tables on her and she becomes wrapped around his finger. Again these songs capture the more adversarial aspect of boy/girl relationships where both parties are trying to establish dominance over the other rather than acting in love which ideally looks to putting the other person’s interests first.

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/wrapped-around-your-finger-the-police/feed/ 0 Day 352: Don’t stand so close to me, The Police https://bensonium.com/song/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-the-police/ https://bensonium.com/song/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-the-police/#respond Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:10 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=2886 Wow I am surprised I have got to day 352 before I finally cited this song. As I have written on several occasions I love songs that are musically intense and this one is right up there. A classic Police song. Sting of course at one point was a school teacher so I sometimes wonder if this song might be a little bit autobiographical?

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-the-police/feed/ 0 Day 341: Roxanne, The Police https://bensonium.com/song/roxanne-the-police/ https://bensonium.com/song/roxanne-the-police/#respond Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:14 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=2836 Wow how could I have left this song for so long. What an absolute rock classic. Love the upstroke guitar strum throughout the song. Probably one of the best Police songs ever.

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/roxanne-the-police/feed/ 0 Day 130: Every breath you take, The Police https://bensonium.com/song/every-breath-you-take-the-police/ https://bensonium.com/song/every-breath-you-take-the-police/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:49:33 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1273 This song has an interesting back story. Sting wrote this song about totalitarian regimes that keep tight control over their population through extensive surveillance.

However, after this song was released, Sting received lots of letters from starry-eyed couples saying how this song captured beautifully the dynamics of their relationship. Sting was so nonplussed by the correspondence that he wrote and released tomorrow’s song.

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