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Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1983

A&M · Universal Music Group

Every Breath You Take

A&M, under Universal. People hear devotion. The words are a man who will not let her go.

A&M released it. Universal owns A&M. Weddings still play it. The lyric is a man numbering someone's breaths because she left. The prettiness is how the claim gets into a room that would throw him out if he said it plainly.

Do not dance to it as a vow. If it comes on, say what he is actually doing.

The eight

  1. Industry

    8/10

    The arrangement is cold and exact. That is craft.

  2. Household

    3/10

    A marriage, or the end of one, kept by surveillance.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    Possession, not reverence.

  4. Courage

    3/10

    He is bold about the wrong thing.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    Her steps are his business. That is not a neighbor's duty.

  6. Temperance

    4/10

    The grip does not loosen. The song does not call that a fault out loud.

  7. Truth

    7/10

    If you listen to the words, the claim is naked.

  8. Stewardship

    5/10

    Worth keeping as a warning about what a pretty tune can hide.

Live historicallyThe next time a playlist calls this a love song, read one verse out loud before anyone sways.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 2016

Atlantic · Warner Music Group

24K Magic

Atlantic, under Warner. The band is serious. The sermon is spend it, flash it, repeat.

Atlantic released it, inside Warner. If you listen only to the players, you hear people who know their instruments. If you listen to the words, you hear a pile of money being waved so the room will look.

Keep the standard for the playing. Do not keep the standard for the wave.

The eight

  1. Industry

    7/10

    Horns, voices, a band that practiced. The craft is not fake.

  2. Household

    4/10

    A room of adults showing off. No household.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    Gold is the shine they bow to.

  4. Courage

    4/10

    Confidence, which is cheaper than courage.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    A crowd, not a town with duties.

  6. Temperance

    3/10

    More is the point, and the point is enjoyed.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    It is honest that the night is about display.

  8. Stewardship

    5/10

    The playing could be handed on. The boast should not be.

Live historicallyThe next time it comes on, name one player you can hear, and one boast the house does not need.