Posted December 22, 200618 yr The Times review of 2006 HAVING IT HUGE Beefcake Robbie Williams was one of the few pop stars to surprise us On the one hand, you could call 2006 a bad year for Robbie Williams. It started with him being crucified by Derren Brown for an Easter broadcast. Then the first eponymous single from his album Rudebox charted at a non-megastar-tastic 4. Rumours that he had fallen heavily off the wagon attended his cancellation of the Asian leg of his world tour because of "exhaustion". Now back on the road, he was fined last week for lighting up when playing in a non-smoking venue in Australia (the Premier of Queensland offered to pay the fine, saying Williams was a guest of the State). Meanwhile, his former bandmates, Take That, are enjoying a successful reformation without him-despite Williams;s sneers about the tragic concept of "getting the band back together". However, to say that this was the year Williams began his second fall from grace would be an overstatement, not to mention a misunderstanding of the funtion of pop stars. For starters. Williams played to more than 3million people this year, breaking the world record by selling 1.6million tickets in a day. Secondly, despite often being the winky, light-entertainment gonk of both his and our worst nightmares, Williams is, secretly, becoming one of this country's (UK) most intriguing songwriters. On the lopsided, 80's electro Rudebox album, he frequently hits and unexpected pop hotspot. She's Madonna documents the Tania Strecker/Guy Richie/Madonna far-rago in 3 minutes of revishing, glacial synth-pop. In The Good Doctor he documents his relationship with a "rock doctor" and ends with a list of all the presceiption drugs he is most interested in getting his hands on. That he is doing this when he could simply do another album of swing covers and sell 10 million is unusual. That he's doing this ten years into a career of ostensibly being a piece of feckless beefcake is extraordinary. In 2006, he was one of the few pop stars doing what pop stars are supposed to do - surprise us. :dance: :dance: :dance:
December 22, 200618 yr Author Dunno who wrote it but i'm glad they did :smoke: Finally some appriciation for not being bland and samey like most of the others. :D
December 22, 200618 yr Dunno who wrote it but i'm glad they did :smoke: Finally some appriciation for not being bland and samey like most of the others. :D I agreeee
December 23, 200618 yr I told you all that I will always believe 'she's madonna' was about guy richie meeting and falling for madonna, and breaking up with his girlfriend....no one could ever make me think its about anything other then that!! ^_^
December 23, 200618 yr I never care about what 30 thousand a year writers say about the entertainer I love...(cant even call them journalists in my book)....who gives a ___!! But I always love to hear the good stuff tho....makes my heart smile!! :) Edited December 23, 200618 yr by Supreme
December 23, 200618 yr It was the UK Times, typed out by me on TRWS and the journo was Caitlin Moran. :D
December 23, 200618 yr What a great write up . Brilliant to see a sensible article from a respected source. Certainly put a smile on my face :D
December 23, 200618 yr :cheer: HALLELUJA !!! (Well, it is Xmas... ^_^ ) An objective piece of journalism on our man, it has become a rarity, at least in the UK. And it's so true, isn't it ? I mean the part about surprising us. He always does. I have to admit I don't like all of his surprises :lol: but it's never boring with our good old Rob.
December 24, 200618 yr The Times review of 2006 HAVING IT HUGE Beefcake Robbie Williams was one of the few pop stars to surprise us well said :o
