Dissect DJs - The Police - Every Breath You Take

Episode Date: June 21, 2022

We take a stroll back to 1983 to dissect Sting and The Police's classic rock throwback- "Every Breath You Take" in hopes of seeking the answer to one question - is this song creepy?Castle & JAG debate. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

going on everybody it's the dissect djays and we got a creepy one for you think you meant to say we got to throw back for you but yeah definitely creepy it is the DJs I like to spin it mix it throw it back and dissect it DJ Castle DJ JAG and apparently the police like to watch you every step you take every move you make and every breath you take this man sounds like someone you don't want to be associating with or having any kind of long-term relationship with because danger is screaming. I think most people remember the police as sting. He's the lead singer of the band police taking place in 1983.

It's when this song was released. I was in my dad's balls. I think also got a second birth when it was remixed by P. Diddy in 1997. You know, when he did that little tribute. to Biggie Smalls after he passed away. Did you know that he already had that song written and produced before Biggie Smalls had passed? Really?

I made that up. It sounded really intense. It sounded like it would be a crazy. It would have actually been apropos to everything else going on with Biggie because all of Biggie's, both him and Tupac had a bunch of albums and songs that, like, reference their death. Like Biggie's last album was like literally called Life After Death or something.

They were really big and like foreshadowing. Tupac called himself Machiavelli. who was famous for like faking his own death and everything like there was a lot of that going around with those guys so it wouldn't surprise me if actually that song was written before it all right well that was stupid anyways this 1983 classic uh we actually had the video going and immediately it's kind you've got to remember back then this video was uh super brand new back then so i'll forgive them but it's definitely got the notes of like the artistic filmmaker who's like i'm just going to create visual poetry like they have

the long shot of like lighting is key empty pan yeah everything is like black and white and there's like a little hint of light over here there's like a long shot of a pan and then that turns into the drum that the drummer's drumming on and stuff and then a very creepy uh face shot of sting yeah singing all these words to you in a half half face it's specifically that he turns and there's a direct camera shot look in a long stairway which is always a weird awkward look as he says i'll be watching you And then it's a long gaze at the camera that goes on at least three seconds too long. So who is he watching?

What is he? So this is what we're going into this with because on the surface I thought of this song I heard of the other day and I was like, this song doesn't age well, right? Like this doesn't play in today's modern era. I think that's what the dissect DJs are here to do. We sloop this shit out and we got to figure out basically is this song creepy. Yeah, just on the surface. The police are, let's check there.

Let's check their asses. Let's search the police, you know, because sometimes. the police need to be searched too. My mom's a policeman, so I love the police. And we're not talking about those police. We're talking about Stings Police. First of all, the Stings Police, the fact that he had the audacity to call himself the police.

Kind of a stupid name. Kind of a rough name. You're bringing up a lot of different thoughts with that with different populations and different entities. How are people going to Google you? Yeah, and they're like police, and it immediately is like, do you want to call 911? Yeah. Yeah. Is this an emergency?

Shows up in your records. Google search the police. Yeah, yeah. Watch out for this guy. Just moments before this. Bad name. Honestly, bad group name. Could have thought of anything else, but they decided to go with. What do you think of the name?

Sting? I like the name. I like the name. I like one syllable. I'm a one syllable kind of guy. So whenever I hear one that gives a little, bear I say, sting to it. The SEO works much better in a Google search.

conflicted only by the wrestler who was later showed up on the scene that came popular in WCW, also named Sting. So he ended up having a battle him, I think, for infringement rights. I don't think that actually happened, but Google search definitely split between those things. Another hard search, though, because if you Google Sting, you're going to get like... I'm Googling Sting right now. You're going to get remedies to different Sting... Like a Hornet. Hornet.

Okay, well, our Sting today actually totally wins the... the Google War. All the top results are from him. Really? Yeah. Not even Sting Ray? Sting Ray didn't even make a top, like... No, I'm actually going all the way down on the first page,

and there is no reference to the wrestler Sting, who... One of the most popular wrestlers of all time, so that's actually shocking. Sting's legacy lives on... Stinger? There's not even a Stinger on there? Like, somebody got a neck injury, and...

It's all Sting. I think if I Google search Stinger, that might pop up. Let's... At the ER to that. Let me see if it remedies to... Oh, there's a car called a... Stinger. The 22

Stingway. The Corvette didn't even pop on this fucking thing? The 22 Kia Stinger. Oh, man. I don't know. It's like, it might be a new car.

Let's bring it back. Let's bring it back. Let's reel it in. We're great of going off the rails, but always important to reel that. And I feel like as we've gotten deeper into the Dysak DJs, our ability to be like,

you know what? We're going to make a right turn here. Yeah. And end up in this neighborhood for just a little bit. We're going to exit Maldi in 25th and just chill. Just going to hang out for a minute.

Swing all the swings in this area. We'll come back. We'll come back on the freeway. Couple Google searches and the Kia 2022 stinger. Yeah. By the way, what is it, what is it MSRPing at? Is it 20, $21,000? Is that?

What is the price of it? MSRP. I don't know. I honestly don't know what MSRP stands for. I just know that's the correct and proper enunciation of when you're trying to price a car. 36K. Oh, shit. The MSRP is 36K?

What is the MSRP? Everybody, dude. Let's get back to this. Okay, so back to the police, the Stings Police, that is apparently watching every breath you take, every move you make. Again, watch out for this guy. Every single day, too. Every day. Oh, my goodness.

Manufactured, suggested retail press. That's what... Actually, that's a great way to gauge the actual cost that should be for a car. You don't need to get the Kelly Blue Book value. Manufacturer. Go to there. What is the suggested retail price based on the car? This man watches every single day.

That's a lot of stocking. Every word you say. Every single word. What, has he got his landline tap now? Is he checking his text messages? Is he watching her phone calls? Not only that. Like, is he, like, in a sentence of, I'm going to the store today.

Is he focusing on the? Like, is he like, I heard you say, the, like, every word. So you know what I mean? He's focusing on even the small ones that, the minuscule ones that mean nothing. There's a lot of does in there that he's just like, whoa. I saw that the, was that an end? He's excessive. Every game you play, is he watching her wordal games?

Is he going to play Dr. Mario? Like, no, no, no, not right there. No, no. No, kill that virus. playing Sudoku. He's like, hey, I think the three fits in that corner. Don't mind me. I was just watching it.

You should definitely buy a house. Thin line between... You should definitely buy a house on Monopoly. Also, look at how much... The pause screen that we have right now is a deep stare direct down the lens from Sting. Half his face is...

Fantastic hair, though. Fantastic hair. But half his face is in the shadow. And there's no way that this doesn't come off as creepy from every... angle. I'm already feeling like we've reached the conclusion that this song is creepy. I will give it.

We're only like a few words in. Yeah, we're 30 seconds in this motherfucker. 45 seconds in. But just that shot alone right there. Yeah. Let me take a screenshot of a screen shot. I'm going to take a screenshot of a screenshot. I'm going to take a screenshot of that. Yeah. There's no way that

that's not the face of creepy. It's just not. As he's telling you that every breath you take, every game you play and every word you say, he'll be watching you do something better with your time stingeth for some reason all my life i thought he said i'm a poor hair right there i don't know why my brain always thought that what do you actually say i'm a pull her what does you say i don't actually look at the lyrics hey i don't know but i was for some reason thought he said here you see you belong to me which is also like

keeping the creepy life right in the life according to who Sting. Yeah. Even, yeah. Sting a thing. What's the next word? How my poor heart aches with every step you take. So, okay, if that's the case, this doesn't sound like a woman that's with him anymore, right?

Why does his heartache with every step she takes? If he was happily taking strides with you, you'd be stoked and you wouldn't. So he's now watching every single moment of like a woman that he's been jilted by, that he feels like he's no longer with and, like, they've gone on. Rye like yeah even for 1983 standards this was fucking creepiest did you know that Sting's real name is

Gordon Matthews his name is Gordon Gordon Matthew Thomas well it's understandable why you changed his name the balls it changes him to sting Gordon Mom and Sting I told you

100 times of him forth it shall be known as Sting. And I'm a rock star. And I will watch every step you take. I will watch the moves you make. Every game you play. Every ball you break. Especially if you play that new Mario system.

I heard that one is the tits. Castle, I think you were right. I think everything that he just said in that last segment. Creep as far. That is exactly what you said. No. That this is a man scorned from being broken up And now he's basically stalking his ex.

He's a stalker at this point. Full blown. Probably has two kids and now married and has a new job as the head executive of a winery. And she's just killing it. And he's just like goes to the winery every day because it's allowed by public. You know what's interesting as we go over this and we went over the song last week by Lauren Hill. It's funny how the stories are told. by the songmakers and like they get to put their own spin on whatever reality.

He makes it sound good that like, oh, yeah, you lost. I'm like, yeah, how'd you lose her, bro? Yeah. What'd you do? Were you looking at her way too much? Was she in the shower and you were just staring at her? Like, the fact that you have to say, can't you see you belong to me? Like you're excessive.

You have this ownership over her. It's just like, there's no way that that is something that a healthy relationship, one person would say to the other that feels mutual about it. You know what? Fuck you, Sting. Sting. Fuck Gordon. Fucking Gordon Matthews.

Yeah. But here's the thing in both cases in Sting and in Lauren Hill is if you could make it into a gen that everybody wants to play and listen to, they're willing to overlook the negativity and the creepiness. And inevitably, I think a lot of people will then side with them. I'll be like, come on, give Gordon another chance. He's a great guy. He's watching you all the time. How sweet is that?

You broke that vial the other day? Remember that expensive vial? He saw that. He saw it. He was fine with it. That crossword puzzle he did in the New York Times. He was right there over your shoulder. You couldn't see him.

He was sitting across the street at Martha's. We just say this guy is very intense with his... He's playing a cello. We need to give a shout out to that. Aggressive cello. Like, he's mad at this chello. Like, you got to watch this pathetic video up right now. It's very intense with how dark and poorly lit it is.

And sexy, his hair is. God, he has great hair. Also, I love that in these videos in these times. You see them, like, kind of working with new video effects that now kind of become triton. Like, they have that one that, like, sort of has that mirror effect where it's like both sides are, like, showing the same thing. The director of this video went all out on this artistic vision. That's for sure. There was, like, a window maker.

Like, he was, like, cleaning a window behind the band and they, like, focused on him for a minute. You see that part? What was that about? That's cleaning the future, cleaning the future horizons that potentially, that he can see... Her vision is blurry right now because she can't see that he belongs to her.

So he's clean. Yeah, he's scraping that window clean. Fucking stupid. I gotta know what this vial she broke. I actually was just about to say. What was the vials she broke? I don't know what...

How expensive can vials get? Is that every vial she breaks? Is she a scientist? How often is she breaking vials? Is she a chemist working a lab? What does that even mean? What could the vial possibly contained that she continuously keeps breaking.

I don't want to get too sidetracked at research, but I almost want to look up if Sting once dated like a biochemist. Who was like, and this song was specifically. Josephine Rodriguez was actually a PhD chemist. You know what's crazy? As I'm looking at the lyrics, it is a very quick song. It just repeats the same shit over and over again. Why?

Like this? There's not very few lyrics. We haven't talked about the Every Smile You Fake yet either. Yeah. Was this ever a happy relationship? Why has she got this fake smiles? The fact that you know it's a fake smile. I liked it.

I liked that smile that you just did. I could see it's fake. I could see that you're not really enjoying. Hey, don't worry. You will see you belong to me. Just let the window guy do. Don't break that vial. Let the window guy do his thing.

He'll clear that up for you. I don't know how we can time code that. But that very specific shot, I thought it was creepy when he was staring straight down the lens. but now that he's like aggressively playing his cello thing. He's playing that thing. And he's like looking off to the side and he's getting more amped up about it. He's starting to look angry as he's being like, oh, be watching you.

Somebody definitely, he's basically saying to his ex, I'm going to be watching you the whole fucking time. Like I'm going to be creeping up on you, get used to it. Every step you take, while you break, game you play, I'm going to be watching. So you're used to it. Stalker 101. We should set him up with Lauren. and I feel like he's definitely not focused on his tims and his rims.

He's not packing a guy to the club. Wait, so you think this is the guy that the friend banged three weeks ago? No. Well, that's not what Lauren's targeting when she's describing guys. So that's why I think Sting would actually be. Oh, the opposite of what we're looking like that. Yeah, and maybe he would focus on her enough. We talked about, but just not talking about lefts as well.

Intense focus, though. Very intense focus. You know, and maybe Lauren would appreciate that. That way she doesn't have to worry about her friend running around with him, you know. match me in heaven fuck you sting it's the perfect stalker

a bunch of cigarettes of him just creeping out at martha's across the street as he another classic artistic shot of just the ashtray full of cigarettes from watching and stalking and then it turns into the drum again there you go super artsy video

I gotta give shout out to the police and sting for this nobody was ever better at going out on the third verse when they just kind of like start coming in with that like little chorus kind of repeating the general theme

and then just let that flow for three minutes think about like message in a bottle that's another one that was like our famous sting song just a cast away island loves that's see oh we can probably do that one dude yeah I wouldn't be mine I love that song and I mostly love how the third verse

just goes off the guitar really just starts taking off on his own journey and so the police were always really good at that. I just decided it's police week. We got to do a message in a bottle. Guess what, everyone. Police week. Police week.

I remember I actually learned, I didn't play much guitar hero, but I learned how to play that song on the guitar hero. And that's when I really appreciated how it just killed it in the end. You're like, oh, the guitar just takes over this fucking third verse. So, okay. We'll do police week. I'm down. We'll do it.

It. Sting week. We haven't given Sting love or enough people of his generation. We tend to stick in a very common region. Understandable. Those are the most views. Understandable. Those are the ones that we get the most listens and the most potential for us to be able to take this somewhere else.

And we're going to try out the sting shit. You guys got to hear this message in a bottle thing because somebody throws a bottle in the ocean and it ends up and then there's a bunch of other bottles. Save it. Save it. All right. Get into that. I think overall resolution. Creepy as fuck.

I grade this song Agreed as fuck But that's not the kind of grade that we do We do slaps and snaps out of five Just you know How many slaps? How many snaps are you gonna give police Every breath you take

It was like three slaps And it sounded like a breath and a half I just let as much breath as I could out So I heard a full breath It was my final And then another additional half Yeah I try to get it out like that Okay

All right Why Great song has a good rhythm to it However as we've guys I've realized this is just about it. This is a stalker writing a song. To his ex, letting her know in a very peaceful and romantic manner, I'm going to be watching you at all times, no matter what you do.

So get used to it. So we're basically listening to a stalker song. You know what I actually made this song, jump in my mind when I heard it again, is I saw it in a commercial that was taught. It used this song, and it was referencing the fact that like, you know, everything is listening to you now. you know you talk about something and your phone picks up and then they're showing you those ads in instagram and they're showing you like you's always listening to you and it was referencing this

song as like everybody was like dude can you stop watching every fucking thing i'm doing so yeah if i ever go psycho in my mind my brain goes nuts and i decided to become a stalker to somebody you know just you know for thinking this shit um i'm definitely one of my go-toes as i'm stalking that person is just going to be sending a 15 second clip of this song just like and in a picture of me just looking at them like Pam write that down oh yeah you might she's looking for a note she's actually physically looking for a note immediately he's not doing that shit to me yeah I'm gonna do that so all right castle snaps and snaps all right give me what you got right so we got you can you not hear the wink you can't hear a wink right the winks are impossible to hear all right if I had a cello

I would have added a cello note but I don't I think I'd actually have a cello right here That would be a good pullout. It's too late. So I got three claps, three snaps. Nope. Three slabs. A full breath that I was why. Like you took a breath in?

I did. And then just kind of stopped. No, I know. And it's because I didn't want to do a breath and a half. And then I did a wink watch just to like really layer on that creepy vibe. I'm watching you. I'm watching you. So we both agree.

This is a stalker singing to his X. But still kind of works. In a romantic cordial manner. Which one do you like better, this or Pete Ditty's version? Always the original. I'll take the original of everything except for Rocky 4. I do, again, what I like about that song was when 112 comes in. Same thing.

When they kind of go out and they sort of bring the harmony up and they kind of like add layers on layers of it. I think that's something that the police understood, Ditty understood. That's music right there. Don't give me three cheeseburgers in a row and be like, oh no, That's a whole new meal every time. No, I see through your bullshit. I need some pickles. Add some layers to that shit.

Give me some diced tomatoes, all right? Grilled onions. Some honey mustard spread, you know? What about that special sauce, though? Shit. The police understood about special sauce. Next!