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Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike...
But, seriously, I have a point here. As a point of comparison, The Police record’s choice of title is markedly different—the title is in French, which a lot of people speak, and, besides, almost anyone could guess with some accuracy as to what ?...
Just as the choice for the title of the record might suggest, Mice Parade is subtle music made by subtle people. It feels extremely small, and it’s meant to, like the musical equivalent of a shrug, a sigh, a yawn.
Listening to Mice Parade created an itch that needed to be scratched. For whatever reason, Sting was there, with his hooks and verses and bridges and choruses, to scratch that itch.
The divergence here is in the theory behind a song; with The Police, each song is about something, usually something painfully obvious. Mice Parade is the antithesis of this style, pushing forth a mood, a feeling, on each track—more poetry than prose. There’s nothing...