Sting Is Stung

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. And I'm laughing my arse off about it.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe Sting should start writing more instrumentals.

The school teacher-turned-rock star topped Blender's list of the worst lyricists, thanks to lines that betray "mountainous pomposity (and) cloying spirituality," the music magazine said.

Blender assailed Sting for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free"), and co-opting the works of Chaucer, St. Augustine and Shakespeare. (H/T - Yahoo!)

Okay, this is simply a riot. Let that be a lesson to all of you "Rockers with a message" out there. Bono, Elton John, John Cougar Mellencamp, or whatever the Hell you are calling yourself this week; shut the Hell up and just write some decent music for a change, okay?

Do you know why Sinatra is still so popular after all these years? Because he (and Sammy Cahn) wrote damn fine lyrics to entertain us, not make us think. If I want to think, I'll read Insolublog.