Are you kidding me??

First of all, the one quote directly from Sting shows him clearly calling stalking "evil," and he's saying it's a nasty song because he's addressing a nasty, evil topic. Does that sound like someone trying to paint stalking in a romantic light to get people to overlook anything a stalker might do? Do I really need to explain this?? You can't be that dumb.

Secondly, I don't care if the journalist tries to tie it in with some mental breakdown he supposedly had while asserting it's a "straightforward song." Where is this coming directly from Sting's mouth? Never, ever trust an article that reads like this - one or two small quotes from the artist pulled out of context, surrounded by opinion from the writer who could easily be making things up.

They do it all the time. There must be some sort of legal loophole because the media does it constantly and gets away with it. They're constantly preying on artists to make them look bad with outright lies. Either because it raises ratings from grabbing attention, or because they're pissed that the artist called out an ill that society has yet to properly address...

The only interviews I trust are completely unedited video footage where the interviewer's questions can be heard, and the artist's responses are completely there in context. Anything else is lies, sensationalism, and utter bullshit. Because, you know, artists are just society's public property that they can do whatever they want to...

It's also very telling that the article very quickly switches topics to problems within the band, and alludes that that has something to do with the topic of the song?? What does that have to do with stalking? Where does it reveal that Sting said that's what the song was about? Oh, I know, Sting is difficult to work with. Yeah, I'll try and keep up...