{"id":3783,"date":"2014-09-25T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:21:24","slug":"songs-of-the-self-deluded-stalker-part-seventy-billion-and-three-separate-ways-worlds-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/09\/25\/songs-of-the-self-deluded-stalker-part-seventy-billion-and-three-separate-ways-worlds-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of the self-deluded stalker, part seventy billion and three: Separate Ways [Worlds Apart]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journey’s song "Separate Ways [Worlds Apart]" came on one of Janna’s Pandora stations a few days ago. A few lines caught in my head ["If he ever hurts you \/ True love won’t desert you"], but I didn’t know the source. So I banged out the words into a search engine and came up with the full set of lyrics,<\/a> which I will now summarize as follows:<\/p>\n

I’m so obsessed with you that I’ve been monitoring your activities since our breakup. "You’ll never walk alone" — literally. I’ll be watching through my binoculars — you and your current partner. If he ever hurts you, I’ll be right there to comfort you…also to lay the hurt on <\/em>him for mistreating you. In summary, I am a dangerous, deeply deluded misogynist who is very likely to kill you and your partner once I’m done wailing about how much I love you.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would really like to believe that, like Sting’s Every Breath You Take,<\/a> Separate Ways is actually supposed to be a disturbing evocation of obsessive, abusive behavior, but I can find no evidence.<\/p>\n

Gaaaaaaaaack.<\/p>\n


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This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1684464.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journey’s song "Separate Ways [Worlds Apart]" came on one of Janna’s Pandora stations a few days ago. A few lines caught in my head ["If he ever hurts you \/ True love won’t desert you"], but I didn’t know the source. So I banged out the words into a search engine and came up with… Continue reading Songs of the self-deluded stalker, part seventy billion and three: Separate Ways [Worlds Apart]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[653,666],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-reproductive-rights-and-rape-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}