The British trio of Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers barely lasted a decade, but their brief catalog proves that every little thing they did was magic
Riffing upon Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita—the author himself is referenced in the song, just in case the connection wasn’t clear—Sting recasts the story as a “schoolgirl fantasy,” which deliberately muddies the waters with the songwriter’s own past as a former school teacher.
Sting isn’t Humbert Humbert: he’s the object of a crush, as desired for his brains as his looks. That very combination turned Sting into a rock star and this is not only his great rock star moment, it showcases the Police as a band, with Andy Summers slathering the track in guitars Stewart Copeland giving his singer’s literary pretensions a wallop.
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