Why are they so popular?

[KoreanGuitarMan]

This thread =

"I don't like those songs, so they were obviously made for the dumb masses who like to be spoon fed rubbish music... obviously."

I bet you listen to Hinder.

[hareek]

No idea who they are.

Dude..."Lips of an Angel"? That song is like, OMG, #1 on XM and VH1's Top 20!!!

(that was supposed to sound like a teenage girl)

No but seriously...they sing that song "Lips of an Angel" and "Get Stoned." They're probably the only rock band that's outplaying Nickelback on mainstreem radio right now.

[Forbes]

I like every breath you take alot, cool song.

[TimmyPage]

Sonata Arctica's song "End of this Chapter" is the most stalker song I've ever heard.. and it's not particularly popular.

[Chapter Four]
You have new love and
It looks good on you
I have never wished you dead.... yet.

You can now have all the things I could never give to you
Look out the window "c'est moi!"...

[Chapter Five]
I'm sorry, I am here
I'm not sure if it should bring you fear
I whisper in your ear
Why is he here?

[Chapter six]
While you are sleeping, I steal your ear ring
Light you one candle, this anger I handle

They said I won't find you, but now I'm beside you
I'm not all that stable
You should know by now that you are mine...

Tell me that past times won't die... Tell me that old lies are alive

I tell you that past times won't die...
I tell you that old lies are alive
Love due to expire too long time ago
Kills me, it will kill you...too

past times wont die....i tell you old lies are alive
hate due to expire too long time ago
it kills me its killed me before

[LesStrat]

This thread =

"I don't like those songs, so they were obviously made for the dumb masses who like to be spoon fed rubbish music... obviously."

Talk about completely missing the point. Although it is true that I do not like the songs, the question is not whether the songs are any good, it is:

"Why do stalker songs get so much airplay?"

[Simon_F]

I suspect that the people who compile the playlists don't (or can't) distinguish between stalker songs and other "love songs". I'm glad you singled out "You're Beautiful", because I find it unpleasant too. Mrs_F and I have discussed it on many occasions. She likes James Blunt, and doesn't seem to see the creepiness in it. A lot of people (and I'm not specifying gender ) seem to fall in love with the idea of unrequited love. Where does unrequited love end and stalking begin?

Eyeing up another man's girl on the subway doesn't seem particularly romantic to me. Morally it's not a million miles from "Christine Sixteen", is it?

The self-centred obsessive love song is one of my least favorite musical genres. Phil Lynott's "Still In Love With You" is the exception, of course.

[Gearjoneser]

You're beautiful.....you're beautiful.....you're beautiful, it's true....
You're beautiful.....you're beautiful...you're KABLAM!!!!!!!!

[Simon_F]

He's good for rhyming slang though.

[B2D]

These are the kinds of threads that make me glad I don't listen to mainstream rock radio.

[JOLLY]

The greatest "Stalker" album/CD of all time has got to be Queensryche's "Rage For Order Order". That's my favorite thing they've ever put out.

[Martian]

Because none of us here have a record deal yet?

[stonabus]

cause everyone relates to them

[italic zero]

Talk about completely missing the point. Although it is true that I do not like the songs, the question is not whether the songs are any good, it is:

"Why do stalker songs get so much airplay?"

You haven't convinced me that they do.

[KoreanGuitarMan]

No idea who they are.

Lucky.

[hareek]

These are the kinds of threads that make me glad I don't listen to mainstream rock radio.

they make me appreciate my XM subscription!

[LesStrat]

You haven't convinced me that they do.

Mais, wha?

I don't need to convince you. Listen to the radio.

EBYT was before your time. I understand that. But the Blunt monstrosity is current. My wife uses her clock radio as an alarm and lets it play while she dresses. I hear that "tune" at least daily. "I saw her on the subway, with another man...."

"You're pitiful, it's true." (Weird Al).

[davedvdy]

"Every Breath You Take" has gotten stuck in my head a number of times, but I don't get the popularity of "You're Beautiful"...I don't like that song at all. I also don't really see how it's a stalker song, but "Every Breath You Take", definitely does seem like a a stalker song.

[Forbes]

I think them being stalker songs is irrelevent, i'd wager 90% of people who buy them don't even realise they are stalker songs. It's not like loads of stalker songs get airplay, i mean apart from these two can anyone think of anymore in the history of music ever?

[LesStrat]

There have been others. I left that open for you to post.

Another example of songs making it big with "unusual" subject matter is

New Orleans Ladies.

But I knew at the time that people really weren't listening to the words. We played an instrumental version of it with a combo from our HS band. Never failed to get the folks swaying to the music.

My dad played in a band that did a cover of that song. One night, the keyboardist said, "I'd like to dedicate this next song...

"George, shut up!"

"I'd like to send out this next song..."

"George, SHHHH!"

"I'd like to dedicate this next song to my wife."

She walked out. Eventually, she walked for good.

[StrangeSound]

hehe, stalker songs.."I'll be watching you"

Never thought this way! Nice melody, that's what I concentrate the most..a nice hookline.

Very often I have to consult the internet for the lyrics because I can't figure the text/wording out.