I've tried to like your music, Robbie Williams. Really, I have. It's just that any affection for the songs that didn't bray on my nerves like a cheese grater was always fleeting. "Rock DJ" was good for about three drunken listens while shimmying at the club in 2000. "Feel," maybe two. I chalk it up to the neurotic lyrics and the self-conscious/arrogant demeanor.So, at any rate, along comes Robbie's new single "Bodies" (boasting production credits from no less than three heavyweights—Trevor Horn, Guy Chambers and Mark Ronson). Below is a 30-ish second clip of the video. I'd have posted the full song clip, but, well, you pretty much get the idea from this:
Sorry, but Robbie really hasn't had a truly great song since Take That's "Everything Changes." Or "Could It Be Magic," the one where Gary Barlow wrote that producer Ian Levine tried to pass another, more soulful singer off as Williams for half the song.
Now that was a good jam.