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Happy Birthday Robbie. Still love ya even though you keep picking the wrong singles and get dressed in the dark....

 

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I'm sure he's noticed that I was the only person on this site who could be bothered to wish him a Happy Birthday... -_-

 

 

 

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Birthdays come & go -_- . He never sent me a card last year so that's that B-)
Hmmmm. Come to think of it I never got a birthday message from him either. Selfish barsteward. :angry:
  • 11 months later...

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Happy Birthday Rob. Sorry I'm a bit late. I was cleaning the toilet -_-

  • 10 years later...

Robbie Williams - Forbidden Road (Official Lyric Video) | Taken from ‘Better Man’ Soundtrack

 

 

TTalking With Oscars Song Contenders: Pharrell Williams, Kristen Wiig, Robbie Williams … and Yep, Diane Warren Too

 

 

"Forbidden Road" from "Better Man"

 

Songwriters: Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler and Sacha Skarbek

 

MOVIE Another film about a star named Williams that uses an unusual form to tell the story, "Better Man" is a fantasy-laced, music-driven biopic of the former Take That singer, a huge star in England. Oh, and it depicts Williams as a chimpanzee, a conceit director Michael Gracey hit upon when Williams described himself as a "performing monkey" onstage.

 

NOT OSCARY ENOUGH Almost 35 years after having his first hit with the boy band Take That, and 27 years after launching a solo career that would find him selling more than 20 million albums in the U.K. alone, Robbie Williams got his biopic. And though the movie is unconventional, there was never much question that "Better Man" would include a new Robbie Williams song. "Ooh, it would be a dreadful wasted opportunity for there not to be," he said. "I'm writing all of the time and there's seldom places for everything to go, so there's good opportunity considering it's a musical, which I've called actually an abuse-ical."

 

But that doesn't mean there weren't rocky moments on the "Forbidden Road." "I remember sending a song that I thought was suitable for the film a long time ago, and Michael Gracey going, 'No, this isn't an Oscar nominee vibe of a song.' And I was thinking, 'Well, f— you. It is.' And then I heard about Eminem sending 'Lose Yourself' to the musical director or the director of 'Eight Mile,' and them saying, 'This song isn't good enough.' And I was thinking, See? I'm right, he's wrong."

 

When he saw a full version of "Better Man," though, he had a change of heart. "I saw the film and was like, 'Oh, this makes sense. I went away with Freddy Wexler and we wrote 'Forbidden Road.'"

 

TRANQUILITY BASE So how did he figure out that the movie needed a gentle, acoustic, introspective song that builds slowly? "Well, I was actually told what we needed to do by Michael Gracey," he admitted with a grin. "He was like, 'Look, the audience has been through a lot up to that point, and they're gonna need a cuddle.' And once he said that, it was like, 'Oh, I get what you're after now. So we set about, I dunno, making natural Xanax."

 

ABOUT THAT OTHER SONG GRACEY DIDN'T LIKE... Williams, by the way, still remembers that first song he was sure would be right for the movie. "It was a very different approach," he said. "It was a mixture of Matt Monro, "The Italian Job" and Neil Diamond in "The Jazz Singer." And in the end, we went for a completely different approach. I still think the other song's really, really good."

 

A pause, and a grin. "As you can probably tell, I'm not quite over it."

 

 

"Will & Harper" (Netflix)

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/talkin...id=BingNewsVerp

Edited by Sydney11

Tess, thanks for opening the thread.

 

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Forbidden Road

(from "Better Man" soundtrack)

 

I walked along a forbidden road

I had to know

Where does it go

Like birds that fly into the sun

I had to run

I'm not the only one

 

Why do you look at me that way

I'm not a problem that needs solving

The truth is still evolving

Life is the choices that we make

We're the masters of our own fate

The painter and the paint

 

You need to lose your mind

To get back to the light sometimes

 

I walked along a forbidden road

I had to know

Where does it go

Like birds that fly into the sun

I had to run

I'm not the only one

 

Maybe I'm never satisfied

I made a lot of poor decisions

Yeah I'd make some revisions

And I'm still trying to get it right

I'm a living contradiction

The cure and the affliction

 

You need to lose your mind

To get back to the light sometimes

 

I walked along a forbidden road

I had to know

Where does it go

Like birds that fly into the sun

I had to run

I'm not the only one

 

So do you love me now

Or did I let you down

You said you wanted all my secrets

So I showed you all my demons

Do you love me now

 

I walked along a forbidden road

I had to know

Where does it go

Like birds that fly into the sun

I had to run

I'm not the only one

I heard this on Radio 2 today.

 

Very pretty it sounded and totally right for the end of a film

Robbie Williams X-faktor Italy "Forbidden road" 2024.12.05

 

 

 

Video thanks to Take That and Solo on YT

https://www.youtube.com/@TTTT-bd1ld

 

 

 

This song is a real grower. I really like it :heart-old: :heart-old: :heart-old:

Edited by Sydney11

Robbie Williams X-faktor Italy "Forbidden road" 2024.12.05

 

Video thanks to Take That and Solo on YT

https://www.youtube.com/@TTTT-bd1ld

This song is a real grower. I really like it :heart-old: :heart-old: :heart-old:

 

Good performance! :cheer:

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