Author: Robbie Williams

Features:

• WILLIAMS ROBBIE
• R&P INTERNATIONAL
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 19-11-2002

Details: Product Description Out of print in the US! Follow-up to the UK superstar's 2001 album, Swing When You're Winning. 12 of the 15 tracks (including hidden track) were co-written with longtime collaborator Guy Chambers, who also co-produced. This was the last time that Williams and Chambers would work together, bringing an end to one of the most prolific and successful songwriting teams of the last decade. Escapology features some of their strongest songs including 'Feel', one of Robbie's best singles. Williams would soon begin collaborating with former '80s musical icon Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy. Chrysalis. 2002. Amazon.ca Escapology finds Robbie Williams on the run from the nasty clothes that plagued him in London. Williams wrote these songs during an extensive eighteen-month sabbatical in Los Angeles following a stint in rehab, and the British pop icon appears to have soaked up more than rays in sunny southern California; the result is two rather brittle paeans to the City of Angles and a bloated stadium anthem that could only have been inspired by the city's vainglorious rock past. The frenetic "Song 3" is an ambiguous love song to the place, while "Hot Fudge" is a mean-spirited slice of clichéd funk in which the singer declares over and over that "I'm moving to LA" Williams reaches firm ground only when he returns to what he does best--those cheeky little slices of pop rock that have propelled him to the top of the British charts. "Monsoon" is one of those ironic gems; it's an autobiographical look inside the fishbowl of fame, with Williams confessing, "I'm here to make money and get laid / Yeah but I'm a star but I'll fade." He picks up that theme again on "Handsome Man," a perfect update of Mick Jagger's "Memo from Turner." Fey and witty, Williams boasts "I'm the one who put the Brit in celebrity." He's at his best when he allows his massive personality to run riot over a song, delivering his braggadocio with a sly, knowing wink. --Jaan Uhelszki

UPC: 766489528823

EAN: 0724354399428

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: Used