Robbie Williams - Reality Killed the Video Star
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Artist: Robbie WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); German (Published)
Published: 2009-11-06
CD Release Date: 2009-11-17
Music Label: EMI
Soundtracks:
- 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
Free Music Notes for Reality Killed the Video Star
Free Music Review: The ego has landed again!
Hit: 5 Stars
Robbie Williams, by far Great Britain's biggest pop sensation ever, makes a return to the music scene after a 3-year hiatus with Reality Killed the Video Star. Inspired by the famous 80's song "Video Killed the Radio Star", Reality is an all-round excellent pop album, not Robbie's best of the best, but way better than the forgettable Intensive Care and the weird Rudebox (however, I did enjoy the title track off the latter). The last album I reviewed for Robbie was 2002's Escapology. That album recieved a hands-down 5 star rating. I must say I'm pleased and excited to have Robbie back doing what he does best, and this album brings back the energy, and a little more, that were on his albums from the 1997-2002 era. Some reviewers were keen on labeling Reality as Robbie's most mature album, I don't see how I can disagree with that.
The album includes some outstanding tracks that will easily find their way onto the next Greatest Hits compilation: the first single Bodies, where it seems that Robbie is denouncing Christianity, "Jesus didn't die for you....what are you on?", but delivers a hard-punch pop/dance song with a mindblowing chorus; the most 80's sounding song that's been released by any artist post-1990 Last Days of Disco; the Pet Shop Boys influenced electronic dance kicker Difficult for Weirdos (the 3 songs I've mentioned so far fall under the electronic dance category where Robbie continues where Rudebox ended, but with better results), the irresistable doo-wop ballad and current single You Know Me, which finds Robbie re-discovering the charm that made people love him in the first place; the experimental and fascinating Deceptacon; the deceptively brilliant Blasphemy, which features some of the best lyrics on the album; the rock edged party starter Do You Mind?; the mellow glam rock/George Michael inspired Starstruck, an alluring song about the public's obsession with celebrities; and the album opening, Michael Jackson tribute number Morning Sun, which sounds semi-epical with the string orchestration. Other tracks that may sound ambitious but in my opinion fall short include the Take That sounding pop/rock ballad Won't Do That, a song written for his girlfriend Ayda Field, and the short and unnecessary Somewhere. There's also the bonus track, another electronic dance number titled Arizona, which sounds cool but isn't the best album closer. However, incontrast with one of the lyrics in Blasphemy, "No singles, just fillers", Reality Killed the Video Star is obviously an album with too many potential singles and too little fillers. The ego has landed again!
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Track picks:
Morning Sun
Bodies
You Know Me
Blasphemy
Do You Mind?
Last Days of Disco
Deceptacon
Starstruck
Difficult for Weirdos
Reality Killed the Video Star Poster
Williams spoke about what he expects from the album: '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 fu*king brilliant. I want it to be the record that, if people think of Robbie Williams, they go, Yeah, Reality Killed The Video Star.' He also talked about his collaboration with producer Trevor Horn: 'He s added something to the record that I haven t had on previous records his genius'.In the wake of Michael Jackson's death on 25 June 2009, Williams is reported to have written and recorded a last minute tribute song to Jackson that will be released on the album. The song was co-written by James Bond lyricist Don Black.
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