i identify as gen x and i am white; however, while the tune is lovely the words are just amazingly creepy. “your skin makes me cry” . . . “it puts the lotion on” . . .
i remember when synchronicity came out and several people in my circle debated and talked about the album and its lyrics. a couple of my friends thought the song was about god but i said it sounded like a stalker. a few weeks later one of my friends said that sting had admitted straight up that it was about a stalker.
“creep” was that perfect combination of repulsion and beauty. the music, particularly the chord progression, was beautiful but the character the song projected was hideous.
I never much liked this song, but after watching this video (based on me trying to figure out why people like this song while I hate it), I have much more respect for it and I understand why I don’t particularly like it (I tend to like melody more than rhythm).
I’m an early millennial, half white. I don’t care for “Creep,” but part of me responds viscerally to that part of the song. I can turn it off after hearing it, though.
Long story short, I reconnected with a jr. high/high school friend in 2009-ish. We first started hanging out at an “'80’s Nite” club in 2015. This song was the first one we slow danced to as adults, although it wasn’t this version.