No, it's about a student who wants her teacher and he wants her to back off. They are put in compromising positions and staff and other students make assumptions.
The lyric, "...that book by Nabokov," refers to the Russian novel "Lolita," about a teacher with the hots for a young girl. It was adapted twice for movies, and as a play, including a Btoadway musical.
Its more about HER wanting her teacher, and him TRYING to keep his shit together and hold to his morals. Sting supposedly wrote it about his own teaching career before the band, and its creepy... but let's be honest. Imagine, ladies, if you're 11th grade history teacher was 23 year old STING?! 🤣
NO! This is NOT about a teacher wanting to have an affair, this is about a STUDENT wanting to have an affair, and the poor teacher is ill equipped to fight it off.
Why do women always do this? Shift the blame from the female to the male. This is not about a male teacher wanting to have an affair with a female student. It is absolutely the other way round. It's time women started owning their own actions and stopped trying to blame men for them.
the first line explains the situation. thats its the girl trying to make the moves on the teach but hes trying to resist not only her but his own feelings. so hes telling her back off by saying don't stand so close to met
The reference to the book written by Navakov is Lolita, it's about a older man who has an affair with a young girl. There was a movie adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The lead singer Sting used to be a teacher. He used to get hit on by his students and this song, “don’t stand so close to me” is about his experience and what a pain it was to deal with.
It is impossible to be a teacher and a best friend in public schools or primary college. In a 4 year university, the rules are far more relaxed because most of the 4 to 8 year students are the same age as those who failed in life and were sentenced to teach.
I must agree that Every Breath is creepy, a straight up stalker song. But I feel that by far their creepiest song is "Wrapped Around Your Finger", if you know what it's really about.
All three are top quality musicians and sting got all the attention. However, you're hearing one of the most talented and innovated drummers of his era, Stewart Copeland.
Great comments here. I always wondered how Sting came up with such incredible lyrics - as was mentioned, he was teacher. What a talent!!!! The guitarist was not a shredder but very tasty with each note on his guitar. I really like Andy Summers. Stewart Copeland was a beast on the drums!
Sting has stated that some of the girls he taught were gorgeous, and he knew they liked him. He also said that he liked some of them and doesn't know how he kept his hands off of them. Dude is lucky he got out of teaching.
Sting was speaking of events in the 1970s AND a different country so totally different culture. Now your judging him and others by 2023 North American standards.
Friend of mine been a school-teacher for 30 yrs and he said affairs between students and teachers go on all the time. It's only a question of whether they get caught. And for every one that does get caught there are a a dozen that don't. I'm not suggesting Sting ever did - but he was a former school teacher and he's clearly talking about something he knows about. Great song though.
I absolutely get your point of view. I think this was a fictitious scenario of a student having a crush on him and him saying NO!! Then again things were very different back then and people didn't take everything completely literally. Songs were just songs
This music is (linda , maravilhosa) like youuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love The Police !! I Play guitar and sing too, Andy Summers yeah!!! The Police + YOUR SMILE AND YOUR COLOUR = OTHER DIMENSION!! A great hug , Rio de Janeiro!!
He had a sleeveless t-shirt on advertising UK ska band the Beat. You should react to some of their songs. My favorite of theirs is "Too Nice to Talk To" from 1980, but they had lots of hits.
Are these lyrics really creepy though? He's not talking about having an affair with a student, he's talking about feeling urges toward an attractive student who is just a few years younger than him and is coming on to him. Should we judge people for what they think or feel or should we judge them for their actions? If, as her teacher, he acted on his urges then yes, it would be at least creepy and also criminal if she is still underage. Still happy to see you enjoyed the music.
In reality Gordon Sumner (Sting's Real Name) was a Teacher for a hot minute. He got his Nickname because he was always wearing a Black Yellow Sweater and folks teased him saying he looked like a Bumblebee and the name stuck. Also this isn't a Private School. The Kids always wear Uniforms. If you can check out Clips from UK Drams like Waterloo Road and Ackley Bridge. He's very attracted to her but he doesn't' act on it. In The UK Reggae is very popular, this isn't surprising since alot of The Black Residents of England are descendants of Jamaica. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood worked with Reggae Artists, Eric Clapton did "His" Version of "I Shot The Sherriff" and Culture Club bought Reggae influence with Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. In The extended version there's a Reggae Chant.
I love The Police so much!!! My friends used to tease me and laugh whenever this song came on when we were seniors in high school and I had a crush on my health teacher who was also a JV football coach age 24 and so hot I was obsessed and he was flirty which I loved. Now I would be angry as a mother if I found out one of my kids teachers was flirting with them
But it is not, sting has said as much, the teacher couldn't resist and statutory raped her. Don't stand so close to me is him not wanting to raise suspicions.
Sting did some really good music as a solo artist after The Police split up, IMO even better in some cases. I’d love to see you react to “ Fortress Around Your Heart “ from his first album. He put together a great handpicked lineup of stellar players who were so talented !
You have charisma! that along with a great reaction & insight! you have another sub. If we are going back to 1980. I would love to hear another english band! The english neat and their Ska sound hit. Mirror in the Bathroom.
Sometimes, when you have been a young teacher, this happens. It's not easy when someone admires or fancies you. But, you handle the situation as a professional. I have many stories, not about myself, generally speaking, where things went too far. But I have been in situations in the past where this has happened.
God, id love to do a reverse song and a video with headlines about the women who had "affairs" with their students 🤦🏿♀️ It's always happened.. it's just that the internet has brought it to light.
NOT so easy to fend off students with various motives I can assure you, having taught in Cali unis for 25 yrs! I taught at UC Sta Barbara, among other coastal campuses over the yrs, and some ladies showed up for office hrs in bikinis... Cracks me up when Sting takes his shirt off near the end from behind his desk. Looks like he might be succumbing after all!
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Read Nabokov (please) before any comments away about this perfect Sting's song and understand he was a teacher before he turned to music with The Police (!) or of course, you could be disappointed a little... 🙏
Try "Walking On The Moon" another Sting Reagae song, without the creepy lyrics. Sting has a new album out with Reagae star "Shaggy". So he started doing Reagae with The Police and he's still at it today.
Sorry just saying, but we didn't outrage over this in the 80s...it was a girl with a crush doing the pursuing and freaking the young male teacher out...
Good reaction and analysis. Other song by the Police with a dark message is every breath you take. It sounds like a nice romantic ballad but the lyrics are about something completely different.
It's about the student wanting to have an affair with the teacher. The teacher is having a problem trying to resist.
lol, yeah not the other way lol
Most ppl think it's a creepy teacher but no she's coming on to him and he's like get away from me devil child. You're gonna get me 25 years
15 will get you 20…
I believe Sting was an English teacher prior to his musical career.
Yes he was.
All boys school though. So not autobiographical. :)
@@cliveklg7739 That was after his student teaching , for his student training he was in a class full of teenage girls.
Actually it's about a student wanting to have an affair with her teacher and the teacher attempting to resist her.
I think ex-teacher Sting had a “sitch” a few years prior
“That book by Nabokov” = Lolita
I thought the song couldn't more clear, but in the 2020s the man is automatically at fault and a creep
No, it's about a student who wants her teacher and he wants her to back off. They are put in compromising positions and staff and other students make assumptions.
The lyric, "...that book by Nabokov," refers to the Russian novel "Lolita," about a teacher with the hots for a young girl. It was adapted twice for movies, and as a play, including a Btoadway musical.
Its more about HER wanting her teacher, and him TRYING to keep his shit together and hold to his morals.
Sting supposedly wrote it about his own teaching career before the band, and its creepy... but let's be honest.
Imagine, ladies, if you're 11th grade history teacher was 23 year old STING?!
🤣
NO! This is NOT about a teacher wanting to have an affair, this is about a STUDENT wanting to have an affair, and the poor teacher is ill equipped to fight it off.
This was a great one! "Message In A Bottle" should logically be next! You won't regret.
....and "Sue Lawley" I mean So Lonely :)
The TEACHER IS TELLING THE STUDENT "Don't stand so close to me". She has a crush on him, he is telling her to back off.
Why do women always do this? Shift the blame from the female to the male. This is not about a male teacher wanting to have an affair with a female student. It is absolutely the other way round. It's time women started owning their own actions and stopped trying to blame men for them.
sometimes you wonder how a 3 piece band made such intricate and deeply complex music. nothing today or in recent memory comes close to this.
Agreed
FYI, Sting used to be a teacher before he became a famous musician. He possibly had some background of having been tempted...
the first line explains the situation. thats its the girl trying to make the moves on the teach but hes trying to resist not only her but his own feelings. so hes telling her back off by saying don't stand so close to met
The reference to the book written by Navakov is Lolita, it's about a older man who has an affair with a young girl.
There was a movie adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick.
I’m sure girls had a crush on Sting when he taught school!!!
this song is literally about that
This isn't about the teacher being creepy; it's about the schoolgirl being creepy.
EXACTLY!!!
The lead singer Sting used to be a teacher. He used to get hit on by his students and this song, “don’t stand so close to me” is about his experience and what a pain it was to deal with.
King of Pain is a great Police song. Da Doo Doo Da another great song. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.
No! It's about a student wanting to have an affair with her teacher and him telling her It's not on.
Love this song and your beautiful smile. Diggin your reaction!
"Every little thing she does ist Magic" is the best clip 😊✌🏻
Great song! Great video! I had such a crush on Sting back then. Lol (He used to be a teacher!)
Excellent Top Ten Hit from The Police! ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦
Every Breath You Take is creepier. And also outstanding
Check out "Wrapped Around Your Finger", "Message In a Bottle", and "Walking on the Moon"
His vocals are incredible on this
Thank you, that was some outstanding chair dancing to my favorite Police song 👍💖
Who here would love to see a Police reunion. That would sell out more than the artists of today
They did.
It didn’t last.
It is impossible to be a teacher and a best friend in public schools or primary college. In a 4 year university, the rules are far more relaxed because most of the 4 to 8 year students are the same age as those who failed in life and were sentenced to teach.
How can we not love Sting's distinctive voice? I certainly never had teachers as good looking.
I can no longer contain myself, I am officially subscribed. Your reactions are golden. Keep up the good work Angela!👍❤
When he sings “this girl is half his age” and you realize the subject of the song -> 😳
🤣🤣🤣
The Police’s ultimate creepy song is “Every Breath You Take” and their biggest hit.
In my opinion, THIS song is not actually creepy. THAT song is.
I must agree that Every Breath is creepy, a straight up stalker song. But I feel that by far their creepiest song is "Wrapped Around Your Finger", if you know what it's really about.
"Lolita." Written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1955
Sting was actually a teacher before he became a ROCK LEGEND
This song isn't creepy at all. It's totally normal to feel this way.
Fields of Gold by Sting is a beautiful song. Sting the lead singer of The Police is named Gordon Sumner and he was a teacher early on.
Love your reactions and channel so much 🙂
a funny thing is....Sting being really a teacher for a period....memories ??? 😅
yes, definitely!
There’s so many great Police songs.
When this song was out, skating was the big thing, we used to go skating and they would play this all the time
Dang you are just great !! I love your attitude...and you are so pleasant to see daily....
I somehow end up listening to this at the beginning of a new semester of teaching at my college.
Can't imagine why...
:)
All three are top quality musicians and sting got all the attention. However, you're hearing one of the most talented and innovated drummers of his era, Stewart Copeland.
Sting was a teacher (English I believe), he wrote this song based on his experience to the temptation and wiles of pretty young ladies.
Sting was a young teacher in his early 20s
. His girl students weren’t much younger than him!
"You know how bad girls get."
Great comments here. I always wondered how Sting came up with such incredible lyrics - as was mentioned, he was teacher. What a talent!!!! The guitarist was not a shredder but very tasty with each note on his guitar. I really like Andy Summers. Stewart Copeland was a beast on the drums!
Its interesting to realise that Sting was a high school teacher before his band was successful.
This song is about a teacher & student affair. And sting used to be an actual teacher .
It's about the tension in a relationship, but he leaves it up to the listener's imagination. Genius in that way.
I met Sting at a BBQ in the Hamptons in the 90's. A real nice guy and must say was very very good looking.
It's her wanting the teacher and he resists the temptation.
Sting has stated that some of the girls he taught were gorgeous, and he knew they liked him. He also said that he liked some of them and doesn't know how he kept his hands off of them. Dude is lucky he got out of teaching.
Sting was speaking of events in the 1970s AND a different country so totally different culture.
Now your judging him and others by 2023 North American standards.
Friend of mine been a school-teacher for 30 yrs and he said affairs between students and teachers go on all the time. It's only a question of whether they get caught. And for every one that does get caught there are a a dozen that don't.
I'm not suggesting Sting ever did - but he was a former school teacher and he's clearly talking about something he knows about.
Great song though.
We had so much fun dancing to this one at the clubs. Also at school dances. 😉
I absolutely get your point of view. I think this was a fictitious scenario of a student having a crush on him and him saying NO!! Then again things were very different back then and people didn't take everything completely literally. Songs were just songs
This music is (linda , maravilhosa) like youuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love The Police !! I Play guitar and sing too, Andy Summers yeah!!!
The Police + YOUR SMILE AND YOUR COLOUR = OTHER DIMENSION!!
A great hug , Rio de Janeiro!!
"Spirits in the Material World" hun
He had a sleeveless t-shirt on advertising UK ska band the Beat. You should react to some of their songs. My favorite of theirs is "Too Nice to Talk To" from 1980, but they had lots of hits.
Are these lyrics really creepy though? He's not talking about having an affair with a student, he's talking about feeling urges toward an attractive student who is just a few years younger than him and is coming on to him. Should we judge people for what they think or feel or should we judge them for their actions? If, as her teacher, he acted on his urges then yes, it would be at least creepy and also criminal if she is still underage.
Still happy to see you enjoyed the music.
Sting the lead singer was a school teacher and is talking about a female student having a crush on him.
I believe he has strenuously denied that it actually happened to him 🤣🤣🤣
In reality Gordon Sumner (Sting's Real Name) was a Teacher for a hot minute. He got his Nickname because he was always wearing a Black Yellow Sweater and folks teased him saying he looked like a Bumblebee and the name stuck. Also this isn't a Private School. The Kids always wear Uniforms. If you can check out Clips from UK Drams like Waterloo Road and Ackley Bridge. He's very attracted to her but he doesn't' act on it. In The UK Reggae is very popular, this isn't surprising since alot of The Black Residents of England are descendants of Jamaica. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood worked with Reggae Artists, Eric Clapton did "His" Version of "I Shot The Sherriff" and Culture Club bought Reggae influence with Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. In The extended version there's a Reggae Chant.
The song is better understood if you read the book "Lolita" by Nabokov.
Both are masterpieces.
Sting was a teacher previously!! in England
I love The Police so much!!! My friends used to tease me and laugh whenever this song came on when we were seniors in high school and I had a crush on my health teacher who was also a JV football coach age 24 and so hot I was obsessed and he was flirty which I loved. Now I would be angry as a mother if I found out one of my kids teachers was flirting with them
this actually happened at the high school i went to ,more than once
no about student who has a crush on the teacher, dont stand so close to me, funny how gen z dont get it
But it is not, sting has said as much, the teacher couldn't resist and statutory raped her. Don't stand so close to me is him not wanting to raise suspicions.
“That famous book by Nabakov” ……. “Lolita”
Funny thing is that Sting (Gordon Sumner) was a teacher at a Catholic school for 2 years.
I went to catholic grade school and a couple nuns ran off with priests ,a boy ran off with a teacher and kids were slapping teachers
I like that you quickly understand the meaning of the song
There's a 1986 version that is a great mix to this song. It has a Sting 80s touch to it and is very catchy!
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov....
Biggest band in the world for a few years.
Your reaction is so classic. Love it!
Howard Jones, "I need an everlasting love". Kick ass song
Sting did some really good music as a solo artist after The Police split up, IMO even better in some cases. I’d love to see you react to “ Fortress Around Your Heart “ from his first album. He put together a great handpicked lineup of stellar players who were so talented !
Sting was a schoolteacher for a year before he moved to London to make it as a musician...
You have charisma! that along with a great reaction & insight! you have another sub. If we are going back to 1980. I would love to hear another english band! The english neat and their Ska sound hit. Mirror in the Bathroom.
Sometimes, when you have been a young teacher, this happens. It's not easy when someone admires or fancies you. But, you handle the situation as a professional. I have many stories, not about myself, generally speaking, where things went too far. But I have been in situations in the past where this has happened.
No.. She wants him, he doesn't want her because she's just a infatuated kid...
The girls had crushes and *tried* to tempt him. He's resisting!
"Can't stand losing you" is a cool tune 🌹
“Just like that book of Nabokov” …… Lolita
It is about the student wanting the teacher!
God, id love to do a reverse song and a video with headlines about the women who had "affairs" with their students 🤦🏿♀️
It's always happened.. it's just that the internet has brought it to light.
They're from England in the 1980s like 81 or 82. Sting that's the lead singer bass player he was a school teacher in England
"Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov." Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita.
NOT so easy to fend off students with various motives I can assure you, having taught in Cali unis for 25 yrs! I taught at UC Sta Barbara, among other coastal campuses over the yrs, and some ladies showed up for office hrs in bikinis... Cracks me up when Sting takes his shirt off near the end from behind his desk. Looks like he might be succumbing after all!
Read Nabokov (please) before any comments away about this perfect Sting's song and understand he was a teacher before he turned to music with The Police (!) or of course, you could be disappointed a little... 🙏
Try "Walking On The Moon" another Sting Reagae song, without the creepy lyrics.
Sting has a new album out with Reagae star "Shaggy".
So he started doing Reagae with The Police and he's still at it today.
The Beat t-shirt ! Class Sting class.
Every breath you take? was very popular during the 80's
Sorry just saying, but we didn't outrage over this in the 80s...it was a girl with a crush doing the pursuing and freaking the young male teacher out...
I don't remember there being much outrage when this song came out. Probably couldn't even release it now. how times have changed.
Sting was a teacher before he joined the Police.
Sting [Gordon Sumner] the singer was a teacher .
I was attending college at 34. So I did date a lot of girls half my age! ;)
sting, fields of gold...
Good reaction and analysis. Other song by the Police with a dark message is every breath you take. It sounds like a nice romantic ballad but the lyrics are about something completely different.
Just like that man in the book by Nabakov...
Lolita , touchy subject .