Hello Saferide – Highschool Stalker

If there is one thing we need more of, it’s vaguely creepy sounding stalker songs. Although, now that I think about it, Highschool Stalker sounds like it could be far creepier than it really is. Our narrator is obviously obsessed with her target, going to lengths like checking on his school grades, visiting his ex-girlfriends and even dropping in on his mother. Which would be pretty scary if not for the last lines that prove she isn’t really a threat after all.

It’s all rather upbeat and clappy, something else that probably helps the subject matter seem perfectly normal. By this point it’s already a little dated (“I’ve been on the Alta Vista” would probably be something about Facebook these days), but that doesn’t really matter. You’re too drawn in to worry about such details. By the end of the song, it doesn’t matter how strange her behaviour may be. You just want her to succeed in her quest.