EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

It must be a strange time for Sting, knowing that the man (P Diddy) who pays him $5,000 a day in royalties for the use of his Police song "Every Breath You Take," sampled in Diddy's 1997 chart-topping hit "I'll Be Missing You," is now being spoken of in the same elite criminal company as fellow sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. As wonderful as the money surely is, Sting's most famous song is now forever entwined with Diddy and his industry of crimes, and I can't help but think that the timeless expression: 'selling your soul for a song' still bears acute relevance. Then again, after José Feliciano practically butchered "Every Breath You Take" twenty years after P Diddy's 1997 abomination with his excruciating performance at the 2017 Polar Music Prize Ceremony, perhaps Sting has already reconciled himself to the idea that his iconic song is no longer destined to be remembered for the right reasons.