Artist..........: Robbie Williams
Album...........: Reality Killed The Video Star
Genre...........: Pop
Label...........: Chrysalis Records
Catnr...........: 5099968775223
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 08-02-2010
Street.Date.....: 09-11-2009
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://musique.fnac.com/a2759182/
Size............: 71.92MB
Song.Title :
01. Morning Sun 4:07
02. Bodies 4:03
03. You Know Me 4:21
04. Blasphemy 4:19
05. Do You Mind 4:06
06. Last Days Of Disco 4:50
07. Somewhere 1:02
08. Deceptacon 5:01
09. Starstruck 5:21
10. Difficult For Weirdos 4:29
11. Superblind 4:46
12. Won't Do That 3:38
13. Morning Sun Reprise 1:24
Runtime: 51:27 min
Release.Info :
Robbie Williams' Rudebox was one of the most enjoyable records of his career,
but it wasn't a commercial success. Its follow-up, Reality Killed the Video
Star, attempts to right the ship, and as such, it becomes everything its
predecessor was not. Recorded with a single producer, the estimable Trevor Horn,
but encompassing songs and sessions with a variety of writing partners (Guy
Chambers and Soul Mekanik, among others), the songs sound rushed and the
performances lackluster. Given an MOR blockbuster production by Horn, and with
arrangements by his longtime co-writer Anne Dudley, Reality Killed the Video
Star certainly has the sound it needs to succeed with Williams' aging audience
and clean up on BBC Radio 2. Granted, Robbie Williams is an excellent ballads
singer, well-suited for this grandiose backing, but unfortunately the lyrics
don't stand up to the pressure. "Blasphemy" has the worst offenders, beginning
with "What's so great about the great depression?/Was it a blast for you? 'Cause
it's blasphemy." One song later, Williams declares "This is a song full of
metaphors," then fills it with a chorus beyond mindless: "Do, ooh ooh, ooh, ooh
ya mind/If I, I-I, I, I, I-I-I touch you?" At least the album is front-loaded
with quality, beginning with "Morning Sun," the best and most deeply felt song
on the album. Apparently written after the death of Michael Jackson, it begins
with a classic example of the taken-two-ways lyric: "How do you rate the morning
sun." Second is "Bodies," the first song to be released from the album, and it's
the last glimpse of clear quality and inventiveness on the entire album. Reality
Killed the Video Star may not be a denouement for Robbie Williams; it's not
decidedly worse than 2002's Escapology, it's just bad in a different way.
Whereas Escapology found Robbie disappearing into his own neuroses, this one is
a hopeless mélange of satire and sincerity where, from song to song, neither can
immediately be distinguished.
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