I’ve never liked Sting. I did
like some of The Police’s songs- they say that only truly talented, well versed
musicians can produce deceptively simple pop songs. It wasn’t great stuff but decent radio
fodder.
Sting by himself is awful though.
Boring old man music filled with hoary cliché’s like David Carradine
used to pronounce on Kung Fu.
Even more so, Sting has always struck me as a sanctimonious smug
self-righteous asshole. A truly
obnoxious person. A bit of a joke at
this point.
I’m not a fan of Bono in any way but at least he does make an attempt
to walk the walk.
For Sting there is this…. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2010/feb/22/sting-uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has emerged as one of the world’s worst dictatorships where
they boil political opponents in oil, open fire on peaceful unarmed demonstrators,
and where child slave labor is used The
dreadful re-emergence of the realpolitik type of thinking in wake of 09/11 means
that human rights have once again been decoupled from diplomacy and foreign relations
allowing Uzbekistan a pass under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Sting’s gibberish about the ineffectiveness of boycotts is
nonsense. Boycotts or the threat of such
are responsible largely for the end of apartheid in South Africa and for
improving civil rights for African Americans in America. I believe it also helped get Aung Syiu Kui
released in Myanmar. I think boycotts
could in fact bring about real change in the Israel/Palestine situation by
forcing Israel’s hand (perhaps the only way to force them) which scares them so
much they’ve gotten their puppets in the US house and senate as well as the
country at large to threaten those who attempt it.
Sting is a greedy, hypocritical piece of shit. Walking on the moon? As far as I’m concerned
he can stay there.
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