Why Are Stalker Songs Celebrated?

Being a stalker is seriously not cool.  Nothing about it is "awesome" or worthy of praise from any point of view.  There are famous stalkers like Ted Bundy, and the above "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, who killed 26 people in the 80's(Ramirez did, not Bundy).  When they care caught, they usually turn out to be as creepy as you would expect.  So why have multiple artists written songs about being a stalker themselves?

I don't understand how a song with lyrics clearly implicating yourself as a crazy love-driven stalker have made the top 40 charts, but they have in the past, and in the present.  There is a point where being in love with someone turns into madness and downright stalker behavior.  There is nothing romantic about it, and it really comes off as creepy as hell.  Well here are five artists who didn't know when their love pushed them over the edge apparently.

Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

This has got to be one of the creepiest stalker songs ever if you just listen to the opening lyrics: "I could stay awake, just to hear you breathing.  Watch you smile while you are sleeping."  Seriously, that's one of the creepiest lines ever written in a song.  Nothing about this song is romantic at all.  It scares the bejesus out of me, and if anyone ever said this to me, I'd be running for the hills.  Change your locks, phone number and Facebook account asap!

Taylor Swift - Love Story

Taylor Swift burst onto the scene and immediately gave us this creepy stalkerish teenybopper hit.  This whole song screams stalker to the max.  I mean, she talks about a guy who never responds until the very end of the song; and she uses phrases like "Is this all in my head?"  Well of course it is.  You are wanting some guy who doesn't notice you and you are saying all this crazy stuff you heard on some stupid Disney movie.  You can't force some dude to be with you and the story you made up from your schizophrenic mind doesn't make it legitimate.  These lyrics alone created a million new creepy stalker tweens.

Clay Aiken - Invisible

Since Clay Aiken has come out of the closet as a homosexual male, this takes stalking to the gay community.  Since it never mentions that the person he's stalking in this song is a girl, liberties have to be taken that it's a man presumably.  With lyrics like the following, this is definitely one of the most ridiculously horrific stalker songs of all time:  "If I was invisible, then I could just watch you in your room.  If I was invincible, I'd make you mine tonight."  Again, singing about how you wish you could force someone to be with you is not romantic in the least!

The Police & Sting - Every Breath You Take

This is the official stalker song.  This song literally says "Every breath you take, every move you make; every bond you break, every step you take, I'll be watching you!"  Then it progresses to "Oh can't you see, you belong to me?  How my poor heart aches, with every step you take!"  Unbelievable and this was a top hit.  The music was even re-used by Puff Daddy in his tribute song to Biggie.  This is the stalkers official manifesto, all in one song.

Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World

No song quite goes as far as All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield.  This girl isn't just going to stalk you, she's going to travel the entire world looking for you when you run away from her.  She's the stalker on steroids.  Just listen to these lyrics:  "I don't know where my baby is, but I'll find him, somewhere, somehow.  I've got to let him know how much I care.  I'll never give up looking for my baby."  Those words are not even sung, but spoken in the most insane sounding voice of all time in music history.

Listen to how far she'll go to find him:  "Been around the world and I, I, I...I can't find my baby.  I don't know when, I don't know why, why he's gone away!  And I don't know where he can be, my baby, but I'm gonna find him!"  Listen Lisa, if your "baby" is gone and you can't find him anymore, he probably wants it that way!

Don't go looking all over the world for him, he doesn't want you to find him.  He's scared of your creepy self.  Leave him alone.  Seriously, what would she have done if she found him?  Most likely murder him for leaving her.  Sure sounds like it anyways.  Later in the song she starts blaming herself for the dude disappearing, but never seems to completely come to terms with the fact that he ran away from her because she's creepy as hell.  Hands down the winner of worst stalker song ever.

Why were these songs all hits?  I guess they sounded catchy, but it seems like most people missed the lyrics and the message of each song.  Each song was written from the point of view of someone who can't get someone else to realize that they are soul mates.  They go on these strange lyrical journeys, stalking them out no matter how far they have to go, or how creepy they have to be.  I can't be the only person who noticed these?