Sting's latest album is on a winter theme, but watching this video, it doesn't quite seem to achieve that air of romance and authenticity you'd hope for. My read on it is that Sting's stardom makes it tough to connect on a personal level with the other musicians in the room; it looks, if not wholly staged, perhaps like a rich man's fantasy playhouse.
I think he's also too much of an ironic figure to embody the sort of deep, winter spirituality that you find on, say, Cockburn's High Winds, White Sky.
And he definitely cannot pull off that beard... actually, maybe can, "pull off the beard" if it's as real as it looks!
Ah, the Sting phenomenon offers me no end of amusement....
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