The 1980 song Sting wrote for The Police as a joke: “I had my tongue firmly in my cheek”
The article says Sting wrote The Police’s 1980 song ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ partly as a joke, using a deliberately simple, almost nonsensical hook with his “tongue firmly in [his] cheek”. It argues that the song mattered because what sounded lightweight was actually meant as a comment on how easily simple…