Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star - He's Back!

 

 

 

Life with Robbie Williams must seem like a roller coaster. I can't imagine what being in Britain's biggest boy band would have been like. He was probably led around by the nose by agents, and handlers. Though successful he stopped doing it. He tried out life with Oasis for a while and then finally settled on going solo. This does seem to be his best idea.

 

This new release is the first since Rudebox was so rudely unappreciated. the critics just hated it and tore it to absolute pieces. You have to wonder if they did that because he was so successful before. His popularity got him into the Guinness Book of Records for selling concert tickets so fast. Those critics always seem to tire of commercial winners. That could be why they went after they were so hard on Rudebox. A lot of people still bought it. <_<

 

Robbie was no doubt refreshed by all that time away from the business. I am guessing that Reality Killed The Video Star is his reconnection to his love of music. You have to realize that when you work at something a lot and are pushed relentlessly to do more, you tend to forget the reason why you loved it in the first place. People do not devote themselves to the arts of any kind without having a drive and passion for it that has nothing to do with fame and money.

 

Williams is currently working along with Trevor Horn who is his current producer and he promises that this will be a killer album; a combination of his older work, his newer work and some aspects of this singer that we have yet to experience. In Reality Killed The Video Star which actually seems like a play on words from Video Killed the Radio Star, there is even a tribute to Michael Jackson.

 

Fans are truly looking forward to the release of this new album and also the preview of the first single from the album entitled Bodies which will be released to the public on October 12th and the digital version that will be released one day sooner. Fans are hoping for a winner here are so is Williams. Hopefully Bodies will be the first of many hits that will come from this album.

 

It is true, Reality Killed The Video Star is coming soon. It took years and some fans thought the day would never arrive for a wonderful new Robbie Williams CD.

 

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that last sentence of the article is soooo very true :lol:

ON SUNDAY SEPT 13TH 8.30 AUSSIE TIME...11.30 AM GMT

 

 

Robbie Williams

 

Australian TV Exclusive! Rove joins Robbie Williams in London for a very special interview.

 

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS RELEASES HIS HUGELY ANTICIPATED BRAND NEW SINGLE “BODIES” ON OCTOBER 9, FOLLOWED BY HIS NEW ALBUM “REALITY KILLED THE VIDEO STAR” ON NOVEMBER 6.

 

Its been three years since his last album and there is plenty to catch up on, so Rove is jetting to London to chat with the man himself. The singer who has sold a staggering 55 million albums worldwide, releases his new single “Bodies” on October 9. This will be followed by his new album “Reality Killed the Video Star” which will be released on November 6. Robbie Williams has consistently set new records for album and ticket sales, not least when he entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 having sold 1.6 million tickets on one day for his 2006 tour. That tour played to 3.7 million people in total. Three years previously he played the biggest live music event in UK history when his 3 nights at Knebworth saw him play to over 365,000 people. Robbie has also won more Brit Awards than any other artist to date, has won 3 Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and holds the UK record for the fastest selling ‘Greatest Hits’ album ever – that same album reaching number 1 in 18 countries, including Australia.

 

Robbie says, “I want people to feel elated, I want them to dance, I want them to forget about who they are and where they are for 50 minutes – and, within those 50 minutes of forgetting who they are, I also hope people relate to the songs. This is a record that I’m very proud of – I think it’s f**king brilliant. I want it to be the record that, if people think of Robbie Williams, they go, “Yeah, Reality Killed The Video Star”.

 

 

Rove Daily. au

Edited September 8, 200915 yr by Moonwebber

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Robbie Williams Unveils New Album

 

 

September 08, 2009 - Global

 

By Mark Sutherland, London

 

U.K. pop superstar Robbie Williams has unveiled his new album, "Reality Killed the Video Star," at an industry playback in London.

 

New EMI U.K. and Ireland president Andria Vidler hosted two playbacks of the entire, 13-track album at the Hospital club in central London yesterday (Sept. 7). Virgin Records will release the album in the United Kingdom Nov. 9.

 

The album marks a return to Williams' trademark pop sound after 2006's more experimental -- and commercially under-performing -- "Rudebox." All of Williams' seven studio solo albums so far have hit No. 1 in the United Kingdom.

 

While lead single "Bodies" features a refinement of the more electronic sound debuted on "Rudebox," much of the album returns to the fertile, adult pop ground of Williams' previous smash hit albums "Escapology" and "Intensive Care." Album highlights include lush ballads "Morning Sun" and "You Know Me," the intricate wordplay of "Blasphemy" and the 1980s sound of "Last Days of Disco," which features the telling lyric "Don't call it a comeback." A confident-sounding Williams also experiments with some light psychedelia on "Deceptacon" and electronic dance music on the anthemic "Starstruck" and "Difficult for Weirdos."

 

With a signature production by Trevor Horn, the album also features song-writing collaborations between Williams and the likes of Danny Spencer and Kelvin Andrews, Brandon Christy, Craig Russo, Richard Spencer and Scott Rudin, Chaz Jankel, Fil Eisler and Williams' former song-writing partner Guy Chambers.

 

As previously reported, "Bodies" -- released digitally in the U.K. Oct. 11 and physically a day later -- has already made a strong start at European radio (Billboard.biz, Sept. 7). Plans for the album's American release are still to be confirmed.

 

Billboardbiz.com

Edited September 8, 200915 yr by Moonwebber

Robbie Williams – Reality Killed The Video Star (Virgin)

 

11:33 | Tuesday September 8, 2009

 

By Paul Williams

 

After the experimentation of Rudebox failed to click with his fans, Robbie Williams has returned to what he knows best with the long-awaited follow-up Reality Killed The Video Star by delivery a glorious pop album that wears its influences on its sleeves.

 

No Robbie album has taken as long to arrive after its predecessor (Rudebox came out back in 2006) and no album by the former Take That man has such a lengthy cast-list of songwriters (there are more than half a dozen collaborators), but the result is a set of songs that will remind everyone why he became so successful in the first place.

 

 

Trevor Horn’s production has given the album a fuller, richer sound than any of the artist’s previous releases, as Robbie unashamedly pays homage to some of his musical heroes. The Pet Shop Boys connection, which began with Neil Tennant’s backing vocals on No Regrets and continued on Rudebox’s cover of We Are The Pet Shop Boys, is evident here again on Last Days Of Disco (which includes the line “don’t call it a comeback”) and, most especially, on Difficult For Weirdos. And, having started his solo career with a cover of Freedom, Robbie returns to George Michael with the Amazing/FastLove-like Starstruck.

 

A reunion with Guy Chambers occurs on Blasphemy, while in other places the album has something of a Seventies feel, including lush orchestration throughout, hints of Transformer-era Lou Reed and, on Superblind, the vibe of Bowie’s plastic soul of Young Americans.

 

Robbie admits, “I’m at a turning point in my career,” and it is true that more is resting on this solo set for him than anything since his post-Take That debut Life Thru A Lens. But there are enough potential hits here to condemn the sales dip suffered by his last album to history.

 

 

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Edited September 8, 200915 yr by Moonwebber

Robbie Williams

Reality Killed the Video Star

Release Date: November 10, 2009

Label: Virgin

 

The collaboration between British pop icon Robbie Williams and producer/songwriter Guy Chambers goes all the way back to Williams' solo debut in 1997. Their work together made Robbie one of the biggest stars in the U.K. and around the world and often won critical acclaim. Their relationship soured after 2002's Escapology and the pair have not worked together again until now. Although Chambers is not behind the boards, he did co-write some songs for Reality Killed The Video Star, along with Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen) who also worked with Williams for the album. While both Chambers and Ronson are also notable producers in their own right, production duties fell solely to Trevor Horn (ABC, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood). The album also includes a tribute song to Michael Jackson and Reality will mark Williams' final recording under his contract with EMI, one of the biggest ever for a U.K. star at the time of its signing.

 

 

 

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Oohhhh a review :w00t:

 

 

I'm really liking the sound of this album

Robbie Williams announces the tracklisting of his new album "Reality Killed The Video Star", which will be released on EMI's Virgin label in November 9

 

The amazing new single "Bodies" is released on October 12

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS releases his new album "Reality Killed The Video Star" on EMI's Virgin Records on November 9.

The single "Bodies" will precede the album on October 12 (digital release October 11) and will be available in 2 special mixes - the Trevor Horn single mix, and the Fred Falke Full Length Remix

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The album was produced by Trevor Horn and features twelve brand new tracks (plus one reprise), including the new single "Bodies" which precedes the album on October 12.

 

A deluxe version of the album will also be released with expanded packaging and a DVD featuring documentary/behind the scenes footage.

 

In addition, another new track , "Arizona", will be a bonus track on an exclusive version of the album available through iTunes; this will also feature edited footage from the DVD available with the deluxe version.

 

The track-listing for the album is:

 

MORNING SUN

BODIES

YOU KNOW ME

BLASPHEMY

DO YOU MIND?

LAST DAYS OF DISCO

SOMEWHERE

DECEPTACON

STARSTRUCK

DIFFICULT FOR WEIRDOS

SUPERBLIND

WON'T DO THAT

MORNING SUN REPRISE

 

The album was mostly written in Robbie's home studio and was recorded in London. Amongst those who collaborated in the songwriting are Danny Spencer & Kelvin Andrews, Brandon Christy, Craig Russo, Richard Spencer and Scott Rudin, Chaz Jankel, Guy Chambers and Fil Eisler.

 

Of the legendary Trevor Horn's production, Robbie says; "He's added something to the record that I haven't had on previous records - his genius".

 

Continuing to talk about the album, Robbie says; "I want people to feel elated, I want them to dance, I want them to forget about who they are and where they are for 50 minutes - and, within those 50 minutes of forgetting who they are, I also hope people relate to the songs. This is a record that I'm very proud of - I think it's f***ing brilliant. I want it to be the record that, if people think of Robbie Williams, they go, "Yeah, Reality Killed The Video Star".

 

 

EMIGROUP.COM

 

 

FRED FALKE !!!!

 

Frédérick "Fred" Falke is a French house producer and DJ.

 

Falke started out as a bass player around 1995 before starting producing records in the late 90s[1]. His first record, a collaboration with Alan Braxe named Intro, which sampled The Jets 1987 hit Crush On You, was released in 2000 on Vulture Music. The pair would form a very productive partnership up until 2008[2] when they went separate ways[3][4]. Falke has also collaborated with France-based German producer, DJ and close friend[3] Kris Menace, as well as having released records on Menace's label Work It Baby.

 

REMIXES...

 

Year Artist Title

 

2007 Kelis feat. Cee Lo Lil Star

2008 The Whitest Boy Alive Golden Cage

2008 The Energies Born again Runner

2008 The Filthy Dukes This Rhythm

2008 Hot Chip Colours

2008 Kish Mauve Lose Control

2008 Mini Viva Left My Heart In Tokyo

2008 Roland Clark Music Talking

2008 Roy Davis Jr. I have a Vision

2008 VHS or BETA Burn it All Down

2008 Eric Prydz Pjanoo

2008 Alesha Dixon The Boy Does Nothing

2008 Will Young Grace

2008 Ladyhawke Back of the Van

2009 Lykke Li I'm good I'm gone

2009 Grizzly Bear Two Weeks

2009 Just Jack Doctor Doctor

2009 Gossip Heavy Cross

2009 U2 Magnificent :rolleyes:

2009 Annie Anthonio

2009 Little Boots New in Town

2009 La Roux Bulletproof

2009 Mini Viva Left My Heart In Tokyo

Edited September 11, 200915 yr by Moonwebber

Robbie Williams announces the tracklisting of his new album "Reality Killed The Video Star", which will be released on EMI's Virgin label in November 9

 

The amazing new single "Bodies" is released on October 12

 

 

In addition, another new track , "Arizona", will be a bonus track on an exclusive version of the album available through iTunes; this will also feature edited footage from the DVD available with the deluxe version.

 

The track-listing for the album is:

 

MORNING SUN

BODIES

YOU KNOW ME

BLASPHEMY

DO YOU MIND?

LAST DAYS OF DISCO

SOMEWHERE

DECEPTACON

STARSTRUCK

DIFFICULT FOR WEIRDOS

SUPERBLIND

WON'T DO THAT

MORNING SUN REPRISE

 

 

I'll buy the darn Deluxe DVD for sure!!!

 

The 2 songs I wanted to be ON that CD 'Bodies' and 'Arizona' will be on it. :w00t:

 

IF that isnt a wish come come true I dont know wot is :D

 

Still I have my doubts about the video of Bodies but it feels almost like me saying what I fink of it is somehow 'not done' :(

 

I just hope the promising names of the songs will make their promise come true ;)

I'll buy the darn Deluxe DVD for sure!!!

 

The 2 songs I wanted to be ON that CD 'Bodies' and 'Arizona' will be on it. :w00t:

 

IF that isnt a wish come come true I dont know wot is :D

 

Still I have my doubts about the video of Bodies but it feels almost like me saying what I fink of it is somehow 'not done' :(

 

I just hope the promising names of the songs will make their promise come true ;)

 

 

 

Say what you want Mr Ziggy...all opinions count you know.... ;)

Say what you want Mr Ziggy...all opinions count you know.... ;)

 

 

Hun honestly ... I sometimes wonder IF any opinion then the positive uplifthing one, is welcome anywhere in any forum :(

Robbie said he's proud on new album. Well, I guess he thought that for all previous (including Rudebox), so that don't give me much hope.

 

I have to admit that I like the thing that Guy's name is there. That gives me hope.

Say what you want Mr Ziggy...all opinions count you know.... ;)

 

We don't all HAVE to like the same thing....this is an album so surely there is something there for everyone..... ;)

 

There is a difference between not liking a song & not liking the artist ...I think the comments on the YT video demonstrates that point perfectly....

 

TBF...I love U2 but not that keen on BONO ...whereas I love Robbie but not keen on a couple of his songs ...SSS springs to mind .... :nocheer:

 

OMG !!! 712,894 hits

 

BTW...I do love the song BODIES & the video..

 

 

 

B)

 

 

Edited September 12, 200915 yr by Moonwebber

OMG!!! :cheer: :yahoo: :cheer: :yahoo: :cheer: :yahoo:

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :yahoo:

 

 

 

I suppose I'll have to wait a few months here in Canada :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Edited September 20, 200915 yr by Supreme

We don't all HAVE to like the same thing....this is an album so surely there is something there for everyone..... ;)

 

There is a difference between not liking a song & not liking the artist ...I think the comments on the YT video demonstrates that point perfectly....

 

TBF...I love U2 but not that keen on BONO ...whereas I love Robbie but not keen on a couple of his songs ...SSS springs to mind .... :nocheer:

 

OMG !!! 712,894 hits

 

BTW...I do love the song BODIES & the video..

B)

 

This is how I just found out about the song, when I found this site in youtube!

I LOVE SIN SIN SIN!!!

 

The title is HILARIOUS! REALITY KILLED THE VIDEO STAR!

LMAO!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Review from MW

 

After the experimentation of Rudebox failed to click with his fans, Robbie Williams has returned to what he knows best with the long-awaited follow-up Reality Killed The Video Star by delivery a glorious pop album that wears its influences on its sleeves.

 

No Robbie album has taken as long to arrive after its predecessor (Rudebox came out back in 2006) and no album by the former Take That man has such a lengthy cast-list of songwriters (there are more than half a dozen collaborators), but the result is a set of songs that will remind everyone why he became so successful in the first place.

 

Trevor Horn’s production has given the album a fuller, richer sound than any of the artist’s previous releases, as Robbie unashamedly pays homage to some of his musical heroes. The Pet Shop Boys connection, which began with Neil Tennant’s backing vocals on No Regrets and continued on Rudebox’s cover of We Are The Pet Shop Boys, is evident here again on Last Days Of Disco (which includes the line “don’t call it a comeback”) and, most especially, on Difficult For Weirdos. And, having started his solo career with a cover of Freedom, Robbie returns to George Michael with the Amazing/FastLove-like Starstruck.

 

A reunion with Guy Chambers occurs on Blasphemy, while in other places the album has something of a Seventies feel, including lush orchestration throughout, hints of Transformer-era Lou Reed and, on Superblind, the vibe of Bowie’s plastic soul of Young Americans.

 

Robbie admits, “I’m at a turning point in my career,” and it is true that more is resting on this solo set for him than anything since his post-Take That debut Life Thru A Lens. But there are enough potential hits here to condemn the sales dip suffered by his last album to history.

I want to hear the album--------->NOW!!! :w00t:

Really interesting review fromt he BBC. Thanks to TRWS.

 

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The album features a song co-written with Williams's ex-producer Guy Chambers

 

By Liam Allen

Entertainment reporter, BBC News

 

 

Robbie Williams says his new album Reality Killed The Video Star marks a "turning point" in his career.

 

Out on 9 November, it is his first record since 2006's poorly received electro experiment Rudebox - which nonetheless reached number one around the world.

 

The new record is an eclectic collection of songs which wears its influences on its sleeve.

 

Here is a track-by-track guide to the Trevor Horn-produced album.

 

1. MORNING SUN

The simple piano chords and lush strings that herald the return of Robbie immediately begin the job of wooing back the audience alienated by Rudebox.

 

Morning Sun starts out as an update of an Elton John ballad before late-period Beatles cellos propel the song forward, and it quickly becomes a full-on Sgt Pepper-style rock out - musically and lyrically - complete with full orchestra and choir. The lyrics were rewritten to pay tribute to Michael Jackson following his death.

 

A strong opening statement of intent.

 

Key lyric: "The morning brings the mystery, the evening makes it history, tell me how do you rate the morning sun?"

 

 

2. BODIES

The album's first single, Bodies, has been described by the singer's PR machine as an "apocalyptic conspiracy-laden" song. The epic Trevor Horn production certainly backs that statement up, and brings the familiar Williams sound firmly into 2009.

 

A false chorus of "bodies in the Bodhi Tree, bodies making chemistry" is replaced by the real thing - "all we've ever wanted, is to look good naked" - which slams in from nowhere.

 

The Gregorian chant-style elements narrowly manage to avoid sounding like muzak purveyors Enigma, while Horn brings back 1980s orchestral stabs to glorious effect.

 

Key lyric: "And if Jesus really died for me, then Jesus really tried for me."

 

 

3. YOU KNOW ME

 

2006's Rudebox was Williams's lowest-selling album

If the older members of his across-the-board fanbase were tempted back by Morning Sun, this nod to 1950s doo-wop will have them boogie-ing alongside their grandchildren at one of the inevitable Williams tour dates.

 

The out-and-out retro kitsch of this nostalgic tale of lost love - complete with Stand By Me-style strings - is unlike anything he has recorded before. This song couldn't be further removed from the rapping and electro experimentation of Rudebox.

 

Key lyric: "Since you went away, my heart breaks every day, you don't know 'cos you're not there."

 

 

4. BLASPHEMY

Warm strings and piano again set the tone for this song, the melody and instrumentation of which could have come straight from a West End musical.

 

Lyrically, Williams tries very hard and, by and large, pulls it off: "What's so great about the Great Depression. Was it a blast for you because it's blasphemy."

 

Blasphemy sounds like a natural sibling to I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen - an underrated gem written by Williams and former writing partner Guy Chambers for 2001's Swing When You're Winning.

 

No coincidence, then, that Blasphemy was also co-written by Chambers.

 

Key lyric: "Our deaf and dumb dinners, there's gravy in the mud."

 

 

5. DO YOU MIND?

Robbie does Mick Jagger.

 

Throwaway filler.

 

Key lyric: "Do, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh you mind? If I, I-I, I, I, I-I, I touch you."

 

 

6. LAST DAYS OF DISCO

Last Days of Disco, with its Eurythmics synths and 808 snare drum, would have sat more comfortably on Rudebox than Reality Killed The Video Star and thus fails to move "Brand Williams" forward.

 

Self-confessed Pet Shop Boys fanatic Williams is clearly pleased as punch at working with their one-time collaborator Horn. As the track progresses, the veteran producer sprinkles his magic dust on it. He just about succeeds in making it sound like a passable Pet Shop Boys B-side.

 

Key lyric: "Don't call it a comeback, look what I invented here, I thought it was easy, they took it away from us, the last days of disco."

 

 

7. SOMEWHERE

A one minute orchestral aside which, again, would work well as a musical theatre recitative.

 

Key lyric: "You take your chance in life, go out and find a wife, don't get stuck in the state I'm in."

 

 

8. DECEPTACON

The opening filtered piano chords of Deceptacon break out into shimmering space-age harmonies and get the album right back on track.

 

Lyrically, there are again shades of the Beatles' imagery, while a Bowie Space Oddity influence can also be heard: "From all of us there to all of you, to all over here, we wish you all of the best, all of the year, she said 'well he's never been quite right'."

 

A real grower.

 

Key lyric: "And all over Britain, we wait for permission to form another queue."

 

 

9. STARSTRUCK

Since recording this track, Williams has admitted to being a huge fan of Big Brother, but that doesn't stop him taking a pop at "today's fame epidemic" through the medium of catchy mid-paced pop, underpinned by a gently throbbing bassline.

 

In the chorus, both the arrangement and Williams's vocal come over all George Michael - in a good way. The song, which is reminiscent of Rudebox's standout track Lovelight, could well be a single.

 

Key lyric: "Ready steady go, everybody famous, everyone you know, why'd it take you ages?"

 

 

10. DIFFICULT FOR WEIRDOS

 

 

Williams is a self-confessed Pet Shop Boys fanatic

A song about not fitting in, Difficult For Weirdos is another track on which Williams' influences can clearly be heard. Its initial synth strings are eerily reminiscent of Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence.

 

Not for the first time in his career, Williams does a Neil Tennant impression while a vocoder effect adds to the robotic feel of the track. The French horn-led orchestral breakdown is Trevor Horn's finest moment on the album and harks back to his work on Tennant and Chris Lowe's Left To My Own Devices.

 

This time, the producer's magic dust makes Difficult For Weirdos sound, in parts, like a Pet Shop Boys A-side.

 

Key lyric: "Psycho-evolution your pollution, makes it difficult for weirdos, just another humanoid reaction to the voices in this town."

 

 

11. SUPERBLIND

Superblind, co-written by Williams's tour bassist Fil Eisler, begins with a programmed drum beat, strummy acoustic guitar and some laidback electronic piano before a "proper" drum fill signals the arrival of the melodic chorus.

 

The crashing guitars and descending string lines are reminiscent of the likes of Millennium and the instrumental break on Angels. Unlike the other tracks on the album, however, Williams fails to reign in his much-maligned propensity for sounding self obsessed.

 

Key lyric: "I can't help thinking about me, put a thought in for me, I'm the genius behind me, maybe I shouldn't have said it. Here's to the next century, what will they think when they think about me?"

 

 

12. WON'T DO THAT TO YOU

Williams says this brass-led feelgood song with its Motown-style chorus is his "very first love song". Presumably written about his current girlfriend Ayda Field, it is bursting with vitality - and the energetic repetition of the title in the chorus has radio play written all over it.

 

It's the happiest-sounding Williams song since 2003's number one single Something Beautiful which, coincidentally, is sonically similar to Won't Do That To You. Lyrics such as "I don't mind when the boys look at you, if I were them I'd be doing it too" are even forgivable in the context of throwaway pop that really works.

 

Key lyric: "I won't do that to you, won't do that to yo-u, do that to you, I wouldn't do that to you."

 

 

13. MORNING SUN (REPRISE)

Proceedings are brought to a close by a brief restatement of the opening track. In summary, Reality Killed The Video Star begins with some of Williams's strongest songs for years, falters halfway through before reigniting with a handful of standout tracks, including Starstruck and Won't Do That To You.

 

Nada I think there us'definately ' something there for you in that album....sounds great :)