And I blue!!! :lol:

 

I like the most baby blue colour... -_-

And I blue!!! :lol:

 

I like the most baby blue colour... -_-

 

 

I love blue too!!! :heart: And purple...

im not having a go at him but i just cannot get into likin justins new single...i dont know why as i havent minded some of his previous stuff

im not having a go at him but i just cannot get into likin justins new single...i dont know why as i havent minded some of his previous stuff

 

I loved Rock Your Body, Cry me a river and Like i love you! All great pop songs. But Sexyback is truely vile in every sence of the word. So bloody repetitive :zzz:

Justin Timberlake ? I thought his single was already released last week and is no. 1 in this week's charts. :unsure:

But yeah, of course SS and Nelly F. are still tough competition.

I have to say after that bad start Rudebox got off to (like Susie said...) I would be happy if it went top 5 or top 10 even

Yes but it will still continue to sell well next week <_<

itunes.co.uk now have Rudebox up one more place at #8.

 

 

:dance:

 

Has it climbed since then> :unsure:

From Music Week

 

Finally, making the lowest debut of his solo career on the sales chart, with 4,247 downloads earning it only 30th place, Robbie Williams new single Rudebox is, however, beginning to overcome radio resistance. The track has moved 96-54-143-52-54-64 on the airplay chart until now, but explodes to number 18 this week. It’s still being played by only 57 - half - of the 114 stations monitored for the airplay chart by Music Control, but was aired 592 times last week. That’s an increase of 133 plays from last week. Crucially it was finally added by Radio Two where it was aired five times, while Radio One stepped up support from nine to 16 plays.

From Music Week

 

Finally, making the lowest debut of his solo career on the sales chart, with 4,247 downloads earning it only 30th place...

 

 

I'm starting to dislike this whole download business even more. Now it's being called his lowest chart debut, although the single has only hit the shops today...

I know it's downloads only, but I just don't like the sound of a statement like that. :angry:

 

 

I know what you mean Monsoon. These bloody British press just get a kick out of Rob not doing brilliantly. It makes me sick. :puke2: They should be proud that one of the biggest singers on earth is british :rolleyes: :arrr:

 

And if they are basing it on downloads they SSS shcarted outside the top 100 so Rudebox most certainly is NOT is lowest debut :rolleyes:

I'm very sad about it, although I am not a lover of Rudebox, It hasn't had much airplay to support it has it, no wonder he could have said he will quit the business. He's been lambasted for too long now by the critics despite record breaking achievements, and now we have to put up with Basement Jaxass doing the same.

 

That Editorial in the Music Week smacked of a turn around before they lose the most profitable commercial star this country has got. Since when does an editor sing the praises of someone, from his lyric writing, to his achievements, unless they know he has been pushed too far and could turn his back and walk away.

 

I am worrying about the album now.

Edited September 4, 200618 yr by Susie

Top Five at the mo :cheer:

I know....how ACE is that....and its a CLIMBER

 

I am thrilled :yahoo:

 

Top 3 now guys :cheer: .

itunes.co.uk now have Rudebox up one more place at #8.

 

Now at #7 on iTunes Uk

Robbie's gone hip-hop happy

By David Smyth, Evening Standard 05.09.06

 

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Every track on Robbie Williams' new album is refreshingly different

 

Being the king of pop is clearly not enough. Midway through his huge world tour, which will reach two million fans by the time it comes to an end in December, Robbie Williams is publicly questioning whether he wants "to be part of the machine any more".

 

What can the chart-dominating showman be thinking? His success has been built on a mastery of uncomplicated crowd-pleasers. Earlier this year he smashed a Guinness World Record by selling more than 1.6 million tickets for the tour in one day. But it seems that's not enough.

 

The same old stadium routine is failing to satisfy, and, album-wise, the 32-year-old has been steadfastly trudging the middle of the road; last November's Intensive Care found him treading water, failing to come up with a memorable hit single, though the album did reach the top spot.

 

Now, in what looks like a bid to find some sort of personal or musical integrity, he's made a radical decision: to ditch the popster material and start experimenting. Rudebox, the name of both this week's new single and an album to be released in late October, sounds unlike anything he has recorded before. Career suicide? Or stroke of genius? A sneak preview of 10 of the album's 17 tracks, arriving in my inbox under the codename "Ether", makes an interesting case for his new direction.

 

It includes five surprisingly leftfield cover versions, as well as collaborations with the Pet Shop Boys, the charts' hottest newcomer Lily Allen, and the ambient guru William Orbit. Guy Chambers, who co-wrote most of the big anthems (including Angels) with Robbie, is nowhere to be heard, nor is there much sign of his more recent collaborator, Stephen Duffy.

 

But Robbie's usual songwriting method - working intensively with a single collaborator - is rare in pop. Albums by Beyoncé, Britney and Christina Aguilera are given multiple personalities by armies of songwriters; Rudebox is equally schizophrenic.

 

Every track is refreshingly different, from the synth-laden cover of the Human League's minor 1984 hit, Louise, to the sparkling house interpretation of Lovelight by an obscure Barnet soul singer named Lewis Taylor, on which Robbie sings entirely in falsetto. Keep On is a collision of hefty dance beats and funk in the style of Fatboy Slim, while The Actor is an uneasy ballad dominated by heavy electronic bass. It's all masterminded by a selection of hip producers, including Soul Mekanik, DJ Joey Negro and Lily Allen's mentor, Mark Ronson.

 

There is whistling, techno, country guitar and, strangest of all, Robbie rapping. He recently revealed an obsession with the music of The Streets and The Mitchell Brothers, and after his much-derided attempts at rhyming on the single Rock DJ, now feels once again that being a white man from Stoke is no barrier to hip-hop success.

 

"I want to be a rapper," he proclaims in the copious promo material, "but the world won't let me." The stream of consciousness nonsense he comes out with on the Rudebox single may not convince the world to change its mind. "A-D-I-D-A-S/Old school, this is the best/TK Maxx costs less/Jackson looks a mess" is a typical example of his lyrical style.

 

There's more, most strikingly and effectively on the pair of songs called The Eighties and The Nineties. These track the story of his early years in painfully honest detail, including his arrival and departure from Take That. "Boys I don't believe it, I'm gonna be famous/Pick you up in a Porsche and buy you lots of trainers/I met the other guys, one seemed like a c**k/I think it's gonna be like New Kids on the Block."

 

It's witty and rather poignant, despite the gags. Admittedly, he's not very good at rapping, but the zeal with which he tries is infectious. The enthusiastic approach has worked in the past: he wasn't very good at singing like Frank Sinatra, but that didn't stop his Swing When You're Winning album from soaring to number one in 2001.

 

In fact, the more songs that rush by in a colourful blur of experimentation, the more it becomes clear that this isn't his attempt to get out of the game. The overriding feeling is that he's letting his hair down and doing something fun. There's his effortlessly groovy duet with Allen, a cover of King of the Bongo by French superstar Manu Chao, and Viva Life on Mars, a hiphop hoedown that sounds like Beck.

 

On She's Madonna, the Pet Shop Boys use pulsing synths to help him tell the story of someone who leaves his fairly average girlfriend for the Queen of Pop: "I love you baby/But face it, she's Madonna." He even covers a track by New York art rockers My Robot Friend called We're the Pet Shop Boys - with the help of the Pet Shop Boys. It's all so cunningly referential that it's dizzying; this is a far cry from Freedom, the George Michael cover that was his first solo single in 1996.

 

The scattergun approach to musical style may well result in lower sales figures, but Robbie's not interested. He finally wants to please himself rather than his record label's shareholders.

 

"It's reignited how I think about what I can do with music myself. I've always been scared to try out different things, and on this album I think I've lost the fear of where I should be in my head as a populist artist." he wants us to know. "It means I can just go and do wonky pop now, which is all I really wanted to do anyway."

 

After his hugely successful Knebworth gigs in August 2003, he said to 125,000 people: "This is the point where my career dips, probably - but I don't care because this has made my life complete." Where do you go when you're at the pinnacle of your stardom? He could have disappeared to his LA bolthole and counted his money, but as an easily bored multi-millionaire with an addictive personality (see new song Good Doctor, a humorous dig at his own pill popping) this would never have been a wise move.

 

Instead, he's made the extraordinary decision to risk all the teenybopper fame and adoration and take a punt on the music. Robbie the family-friendly entertainer has finally acquired the mentality of a proper musician.

 

"It started off as a busman's holiday this time around," he declares, "but it's something on which I've found myself." Robbie's next chapter starts here, and it's going to be an interesting one.

 

• The single Rudebox is out on EMI this week. The album of the same name is released on 23 October.

 

 

 

Top Five at the mo :cheer:

 

Really ? Hope Rudebox can stay in the Top 5 until Sunday.

They could hardly call that a flop, could they ... ? I suppose they could, just because it's Robbie and he used to have no. 1s ... :arrr:

But in my book top 5 would be a brilliant achievement, especially with all the slating Rudebox has got...

Needless to say I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

I am hoping it will go top 3 by Sunday cause their is'nt a big difference between Rob and #3 (Nelly Furtardo) ^_^

Fingers crossed indeed..

 

I will be very happy with any top 10 position, most of Robbie's singles never make No. 1 funnily enough.

 

How is it a flop for crikes sake, I read on the Chart forum those brilliant words, underperforming, and this from fans of other acts that haven't been around 10yrs like Robbie or released 9 albums either, I think at this stage in Robbie's career he is entitled to underperform, it for the others to aspire to it.

 

Sorry if my post annoys anyone, it is however my point of view, just like everyone elses. :yahoo:

Fingers crossed indeed..

 

I will be very happy with any top 10 position, most of Robbie's singles never make No. 1 funnily enough.

 

How is it a flop for crikes sake, I read on the Chart forum those brilliant words, underperforming, and this from fans of other acts that haven't been around 10yrs like Robbie or released 9 albums either, I think at this stage in Robbie's career he is entitled to underperform, it for the others to aspire to it.

 

Sorry if my post annoys anyone, it is however my point of view, just like everyone elses. :yahoo:

No need to say sorry.

I don't know how anyone can say honestly say it's 'underperforming'. It wasn't any of our members, but the official thing wording from musicweek. Anyway, must have high expectations if #5 is underperforming.

 

Maybe the problem is it's easy to assume the single is going to flop when you first here it because it's rather challenging, but once you've got used to it, it's really great. I think a bit more airplay and the critics will disappear into the woodwork. :D

thanks e-motion for your answer and while Rudebox may not be my favourite Robbie track, I do wish him well with it, because there are few precious others that would deviate from the norm like Robbie does.

 

I also hope the album does okay too, because from what I have listened too, and from critical reviews I think this one could be one Funky release. :D

 

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