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Message: [QUOTE="Sargassoc, post: 4387614, member: 826"] I've heard the interview and I'd find it a lot more believable if Benny didn't cast [B]himself[/B] as the main character who makes out with the 16 year-old on the carpet. To follow his narrative, he'd be the guy watching his buddy and telling him to leave her alone. A visual narrative (the official music video) that he released and follows the lyrics is more compelling to me than a 30-years-later interview (that sounds more like revisionist history once conventional wisdom helped people realize that 16 year-olds were still girls). (And I've never even imagined that "Every Breath You Take" was about anything else [I]other[/I] than stalking. Never knew people thought it was a love song. Maybe they're the same people who also think "Don't You Want Me" by Human League was also a love song and not a threat to a woman who's broken up with the singer/narrator.) But that's just my opinion. You've got yours. C'est la vie. [/QUOTE]