Westerly, I’m in agreement with you on s few counts. She is super talented no doubt. I too loved her rendition of the SSB which likely gained her many new fans, and I’m not crazy about this rendition for a similar reason. The Police to me were all about the music, the emotion, the realism of just being great musicians doing their thing. Sting’s voice is so freakishly high and energetic. Their music had a raw, honest energy to it. In this version Gaga just seemed to be “overacting” in an attempt to create energy. That to me was out of place. I get it she’s also a performance artist, and I really like her stuff, but not this one so much.