Needing someone. Owning someone. Watching someone. While these disturbing expressions may sound like themes common in horror movies, they can also be used to describe a host of famous “love songs.” Across genres and decades, musicians have sung about love in a way that borders on obsession, thus normalizing a dangerous depiction of what love should look like. 

"The Bridge" is a technically impressive, although overall non-innovative album from Sting, the former lead singer and bassist for The Police.