ya parky is good,to be fait cat deeley did a great interview a while back with kylie on sky one and kylie talked about her cancer it was a great interview but emotional to

What's this about Gary Barlow spazzing about how he hopes Robbie won't head for breakdown cos his next single has been pulled?

Or is that just The Mirror chating c**p again?

 

Really? Have'nt heard that one myself but if it's in the 3AM colunm then it's bound to be bull$h!t. Those bitches do nothing but make up stuff about Robbie. The other day they said that someone had hired 50 Cent to attack Robbie :rolleyes: :lol:

i didnt read the mirror today but gary wa on ross show tonight and he had nothing bad to say about robbie at all,the press are infatuated with trying to make war between gary and robbie

i didnt read the mirror today but gary wa on ross show tonight and he had nothing bad to say about robbie at all,the press are infatuated with trying to make war between gary and robbie

 

I agree, they will do anything to sell papers. They should write fictional novels with the imagination they have :lol:

ya,i really think the press were awful to gary barloe,jonathon ross mentioned that tonight,atthe end of the day gary or robbie did nothing wrong they simply didntget on but the press did some really nasty articles on gary,i hope the take that new album does really well

Yeh twas in their coloumn I don't have it now as we needed a paper for Sociology today I binned it afterwards haha.

 

Something about how Gary doesn't think Robbie would come back from the rejection like he managed after he got dropped or whatever.

all rubbish i would say

I have seen his new video "lovelight" on the Music TV channels more today alone than I have ever seen Rudebox :lol:

 

Most people seem to really like Lovelight so that will only benefit the album's sales ^_^

I think he is going to struggle, I might be wrong but I think this album could even miss #1 ('Rudebox,' is his best single to date imo) but the single didn't fair out that well for a comeback and he doesn't seem to be getting good reactions towards the new sound.

 

If he does reach #1 or lower I still think that it will fall at a fast pace and unless it has a really good song which can revive it it may end up as a flop.

Bat Out Of Hell 3 is out the same day but can't honestly see Robbie missing No.1.

I think he is going to struggle, I might be wrong but I think this album could even miss #1 ('Rudebox,' is his best single to date imo) but the single didn't fair out that well for a comeback and he doesn't seem to be getting good reactions towards the new sound.

 

If he does reach #1 or lower I still think that it will fall at a fast pace and unless it has a really good song which can revive it it may end up as a flop.

 

Highly unlikely. Rudebox was not a comback single. He only released Sin Sin Sin a couple of months ago. This album is only a year after his last so it may be too soon to match his previous album sales but It will definatly be #1. His next single Lovelight is getting a great reception and I can't remember the last time one of his video's on the TV so much. ^_^

 

The album has been getting terrific reviews apart from Q mag B)

Highly unlikely. Rudebox was not a comback single. He only released Sin Sin Sin a couple of months ago. This album is only a year after his last so it may be too soon to match his previous album sales but It will definatly be #1. His next single Lovelight is getting a great reception and I can't remember the last time one of his video's has been on the TV so much. ^_^

 

The album has been getting terrific reviews apart from Q mag B)

Either way though, even though I am not his biggest fan he needs to be given credit for the fact he hasn't been scared to experiment with his sound. :D

 

Either way though, even though I am not his biggest fan he needs to be given credit for the fact he hasn't been scared to experiment with his sound. :D

 

Definatly agree :D

 

He announced that he does not intend re-sign with EMI after his £80 million deal is over after the follow up to Rudebox so I am very pleased cause I find EMI an awfull record label <_<

He announced that he does not intend re-sign with EMI after his £80 million deal is over after the follow up to Rudebox so I am very pleased cause I find EMI an awfull record label <_<

Ooooh interesting :o As long as he doesn't sign with Mecury that is :lol:

 

I think this'll do about 320K personally, his single is FANTASTIC and is getting a great reaction :D Also his brave move of doing something different is certainly attracting attention of people who don't normally like him that much, infact Rudebox was the first EVER single I've bought by him :o and I'll be buying this album which would be my first Robbie album since I've Been Expecting You :lol:

I will buy it like I have bought all his other studio albums.

 

I expect it will sell between 275,000 - 330,000 in the first week.

Ooooh interesting :o As long as he doesn't sign with Mecury that is :lol:

 

I think this'll do about 320K personally, his single is FANTASTIC and is getting a great reaction :D Also his brave move of doing something different is certainly attracting attention of people who don't normally like him that much, infact Rudebox was the first EVER single I've bought by him :o and I'll be buying this album which would be my first Robbie album since I've Been Expecting You :lol:

 

Glad to hear it :smoke: Lovelight is his most well recieved single in long time I think and will definatly

presuade the people who did'nt think much of Rudebox to buy the album I think

 

He has said that he would like to set up his own record company :o EMI are probebly going mad right now cause he is their biggest act along with Coldplay :lol:

 

 

i agree emi are not great. i don't know where along the line it is - the artist, the production or the label, but someone has a poor choice in single material! ;)

i agree emi are not great. i don't know where along the line it is - the artist, the production or the label, but someone has a poor choice in single material! ;)

 

:lol: I think singles choices have been perfect up until Escapology -_- Also Better Man should've been a single <_<

 

Out of the Killers and SS I think Rob will be the one who will sell over 300k first week. But I don't think he will overtake the Arctic Monkeys first week sales.

I think its about time you saw some of the great reviews its getting..hope you don't mind :P

 

Rudebox is another flick of the Vs to all those who doubt the substabce behind Robbie Williams' incorrigible irrepressibility. Initially concieved as a quick and dirty reposte to last year's occasionally overwrought Intensive Care, Rudebox, with its mixture of autobiography, Stoke-on-Trent vernacular and well-chosen covers ( among them Louise by Human League, Manu Chao's King of The Beat - with Lily Allen - and Stephen Duffy's Kiss Me ) ia an intriguing, funny and inventive listen. The highlight is the Pet Shop Boys collaboration,She's Madonna. Camper than Spanish footwear, it acts as a golden showcase for the glory of millennial pop. In another time, we'd have feted Williams as an ian Drury figure. With this sloppy,happy,ingenious record, maybe its time we did.

 

From Mojo

 

This one's funny. From the Gay Times

 

So Robbie’s gay after all then. Well one would certainly be forgiven for thinking so, if his latest “experimental dance†opus is anything to go by. May I present the evidence, m'lord?

 

1. The much-maligned Rudebox with it’s constant references to dirty bumsex including, shock, horror, the Robster himself on the receiving end. “So sick I just had to take it� Well no one's forcing you.

 

2. Next single the insanely catchy Lovelight, with its pitch-perfect falsetto disco does the unthinkable and manages to out-camp the Scissor Sisters. No mean feat.

 

3. Lyrically the alluring electro-ballad Burslem Normals is a bitter Morrissey-inspired barb against Burberry bling chav culture though the music is pure ABBAesque Erasure only with a more expensive synthesizer.

 

4. And speaking of synth duos, he then ropes in his and our favourite double act Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on two of the most accessible tracks here: We’re The Pet Shop Boys is a hard-edged cover of a cover where the narrator wistfully reflects back to a time in the 80s when he and his lover thought of themselves as the Pet Shop *Boys*.

 

5. And if that wasn't enough, PSB crop up again on She’s Madonna, a gloriously Motowneque sweeping synth anthem that manages to plagarise many of the pop duos past hits with a ridiculously rampant Robbie vocal. A future No.1 if ever I heard one and possibly the best thing Robbie or the Pets have put their name to for, like aeons. So ignore my tittle-tattle on which way Robbie is well swung, because, on the face of it, the song seems to provide ‘proof’ of Robbie’s heterosexuality. With a chorus of “I love you baby, but face it, she’s Madonna/No man on earth could say he don’t want her.†But hang on, surely even someone as buffeted from the real world as him would know that the 48-year old Madge vadge is about as appealing to the straight male population as rice pudding? Ah, she's one of those 'gay icon' type thingies, yes? I get it now.

 

Elsewhere there’s an intriguing ragbag of ideas, from solid covers of 80s pop faves Louise and Kiss Me (Human League and current writing foil Stephen ‘TinTin’ Duffy respectively), Hunky Dory-era Bowie tributes (Viva Life On Mars and The Actor) and a Streets-lite two-part autobiographical suite The 80s and The 90s, where lyrics such as “Ah it’s nice that you’ve got a mansion/While I’m treated like the drummer from Hanson†prove that the ex-boybander’s Post Take That Member Trauma is still as evident and as brilliantly twisted as ever. Strange fascination indeed.

 

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Steve Pafford