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Songs
About Stalking
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Do you really listen to the words of
that song you've been singing in the car? This List includes
those whiney "I-misss-my-girl-I-miss-my-guy-I'm-gonna-kill-myself"
pop songs as well. Upon completing the list, we notice that
the rock band, the Police are by far the most stalker-oriented
band with 3 songs in the top 25!
Stalker Songs, What's Behind
the Music?
Information you may need to know!
A recent study by the National Institute of Justice found
that stalking was far more prevalent than anyone had imagined:
8% of American women and 2% of American men will be stalked
in their lifetimes. That's 1.4 million American stalking victims
every year. The majority of stalkers have been in relationships
with their victims, but a significant percentage either never
met their victims, or was just acquaintances - neighbors,
friends or co-workers.
AntiStalking.com/aboutstalkers
Scared yet? Yes, I know it's creepy. But this world is a
pretty crazy place and if we don't learn how to protect ourselves,
then we will be unable to live a healthy and safe life. Keep
that in mind.
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26. If
You Are Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield
27. I
Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March
28. The
Old Apartment - Barenaked Ladies
29. I Want You
Back - N*Sync
30. Witch
Doctor - David Seville
31. Always
Be My Baby - Mariah Carey
32. I
Put A Spell on You - Screaming Jay Hawkins
33. I
Won't Last a Day Without You - Carpenters
34. Hey Joe
- Jimi Hendrix
35. American
Woman - Guess Who/Lenny Kravitz
36. In
The Shadows - the Stranglers
37. Creepin
Up On You - Darren Hayes
38. Never
Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
39. Happy Together
- the Turtles
40. Come
To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
41. I'm
Gonna Make You Love Me - Diana Ross
42. Pushin Too
Hard - the Seeds
43. Angie Baby
- Helen Reddy
44. Hungry
Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
45. Crash
- Dave Matthews Band
46. Obsession
- Animotion
47. Possession
- Sarah McLachlan
48. Brand New Key
- Melanie
49. Can't
Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
50. Father
Figure - George Michael |
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51. You
Can't Change That - Ray Parker, Jr
52. Watching
You - Melissa Etheridge
53. Say
You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac
54. Obsession
(No Es Amor) - Frankie J & Baby Bash
55. Hello
- Lionel Richie
56. You
Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette
57. Follow You
Home - Nickleback
58. Two
Steps Behind - Def Leppard
59. Stalker
- Goldfinger
60. I'll Be
There - Jackson 5
61. Until
You Come Back to Me - Aretha Franklin
62. Shame
- Stabbing Westward
63. I'm
Gonna Love You Forever - Jessica Simpson
64. Breaking
Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
65. Do
I Creep You Out - Weird Al Yankovic
66. I
Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
67. Right
Here Waiting For You - Richard Marx
68. Always
Know Where You Are - BBMak |
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"I'm pretty sure the reason stalking
incidents have gone up so significantly is because the definition
of stalking has changed. Twenty years ago, if you broke up with
someone and they tried to get you back, sending you flowers,
candy, calling unexpectedly, showing up at your house or work,
that was just called romantic. Look at the movie "Say Anything"
for example, the famous ghetto blaster scene. By today's standards
the dude would be arrested. Now a days if you ask a woman out
twice you could get tagged as a stalker.
This is not to say there aren't real incidents of obsessive
stalking. You hear about it in the news all the time. I know
a few women who it's happened to and it's seriously creepy.
But I'm sure most of the incidents reported are simply ordinary
run-of-the-mill jilted lovers who take a few weeks to realize
the five year relationship is really over. And of course in
our paranoid culture, these incidents are red-flagged as stalking.
I guess what I'm saying is that I doubt there's been an increase
in stalking lately. It's just that there's a name and a stigma
for it now. There's also been a dramatic increase in fines for
failure to wear a seatbelt in the past 30 years, mostly because
it wasn't considered a crime in the past.
By this modern definition, pretty much any break-up song is
a stalker song. Anyone who's ever loved someone deeply enough
and is not over it the instant the relationship ends, calling,
begging, pleading, holding onto hope, is a stalker. Situations
like this should be differntiated from the obsessive, creepy,
violent, intrusive kind of stalking that's the real problem
in today's culture. If this were the case, I'm sure the numbers
would be far less than 8%."
Just my opinion.
-Kevin
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