“Sending out a nesso ess”. The lad really needed to sort out his diction. And that Jamaican accent was fooling no one – I mean, have you ever seen a whiter man? His only competition was, erm, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.
The most hated man in pop? Even Paul Weller – hardly Mr Popular himself – spat at a picture of Sting backstage at the Royal Albert Hall recently. Does he get a tough rap? There’s no doubting he’s conceited, but really everyone’s just jealous of Sting and his month-long mating rituals. And the zillion records sold. And the fact he still cuts a dashing figure in middle-age.
Of course, it’s possible that people simply hate his music but a) check out those zillion units and b) come on, some of it’s been smart. ‘Message In A Bottle’ was a monument from the minute it was released. Edgy, memorable, carrying universal appeal around in bags, it’s a classic pop moment in a year brimming with them. Like so many greats, it even has a massively clunky metaphor at its heart.
Junior wielded the plastic Stratocaster throughout, showing her credentials as a proto-Hendrix by imploring me to watch her playing it with her chin. Face it – you’re impressed just reading about it.
Jukebox Junior 
More hated than Jonathan King? Or Gary Glitter? Or James Blunt?
I doubt it.
Sting can’t be middle-aged because that would make me middle-aged – and clearly that’s wrong.
Sting’s daughter went to my school. She bought my brother in a slave auction. I’m not sure those statements should really go together.
Is that The Daily Mail’s Roderick Glossop?
Technically, King and Glitter are not really “in pop” anymore, anyhow.
All this suggests to me is Bingo L is a big fan of James Blunt.
When I said Sting was middle-aged, Heather, I meant “in the first flush of youth”.
Katja – well well well. Sting advocating slavery, you say? How does that sit with his world-saving convictions?
Mr. Paul Weller can’t be slagged off by Sting. The Modfather himself is more meaningful and ACTUALLY shows a socialist opinion. Sting is reasonably mediocre compared to Weller, as Sting was literally more famous because of his drowny, quiet voice, whereas Weller was and is purposefully non-famous because of his lack of want for money and praise. Weller is clearly better in his own right, whereas Sting (I’m sorry) is quite small-minded and boring (again, sorry!)