I'm not sure if he was really happy when he wrote this. I think he just tried to write one of those happy-whappy nice tunes with some 50's feeling to it. The melody and the lyrics and the whistling and all, it reminds me of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".
I think every now and then Sting wanted and tried something that was not his usual style, whether it was just for fun or whether he saw it as a way of developing as a song writer. Like he said he wrote "De Do Do Do..." because he was interested in what attracts us to those simple phrases like "Do Wah Diddy".
Whatever his reasons were to write this, I like the song but even more the video for it (Sting as a dancing priest, oh my Lord).
I'm not sure if he was really happy when he wrote this. I think he just tried to write one of those happy-whappy nice tunes with some 50's feeling to it. The melody and the lyrics and the whistling and all, it reminds me of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".
I think every now and then Sting wanted and tried something that was not his usual style, whether it was just for fun or whether he saw it as a way of developing as a song writer. Like he said he wrote "De Do Do Do..." because he was interested in what attracts us to those simple phrases like "Do Wah Diddy".
Whatever his reasons were to write this, I like the song but even more the video for it (Sting as a dancing priest, oh my Lord).