Monday, November 5, 2007

Williams: not the actor, the singer

How the current subject is music (one of my favorites topics), and I've already writen too much about Brazilian music, nothing better, in an english blog, talk about an english singer: Robbie Williams. And please, don't make confusion with the famous actor RobbIN Williams.
RobbIE was born in England, and his first experience with the success was with the first boy band of the Pop Music: Take That. After release some albuns, the band has separated, and Robbin decided to take a solo career, which has been succed since than. He's a very funny person, and he shows his humor in his songs and his videoclips. The most interesting thing in Robbie Williams songs is the subjects. He sings about comom topics, like the girls who will always love her boyfriend, or a song for his parents, the guy which has broken-up...but beside the writing, he writes in a very sincere way. Behind of all the happy guy, Robbie reveals trought his songs he's a very lonely person, and he misses a person to share his life. He has already had some dates, but any one lasted more than six months.
On one of the most famous song of Robbie and one of my favorites, he writes about the end of a relationship in a very specific way: his last date. He write about all the pain and the why that the date has finished.

No Regrets
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_1AsN_4ec

Tell me a story
Where we all change
And we'd live our lives together
And not estranged

I didn't lose my mind it was
Mine to give away
Couldn't stay to watch me cry
You didn't have the time
So I softly slip away

No regretsthey don't work
No regrets now/ they only hurt
Sing me a love song
Drop me a line suppose it's just a point of view
But they tell me I'm doing fine

I know from the outside
We looked good for each other
Felt things were going wrong
When you didn't like my mother
I don't want to hate but that's
All you left me with
A bitter aftertaste and a fantasy of
How we all could live

No regrets/ they don't work
No regrets now/ they only hurt(we've been told you stay up late)
I know they're still talking(you're far too short to carry weight)
The demons in your head(Return the videos they're late)
If I could just stop hating you(goodbye)
I'd feel sorry for us instead

Remember the photographs (insane)
The ones where we all laugh (so lame)
We were having the time of our lives
Well thank you it was a real blast

No regrets/ they don't work
No regrets/ they only hurt
Write me a love song
Drop me a line
Suppose it's just a point of view
But they tell me I'm doing fine

Everything I wanted to be every
Time I walked away
Everytime you told me to leave
I just wanted to stay
Everytime you looked at me and
Everytime you smiled
I felt so vacant you treat me like a child
I loved the way we used to laugh
I loved the way we used to smile
Often i sit down and think of you
For a while
Then it passes me by and i think of
Someone else instead
I guess the love we once had is
Officially dead



And hear you have other links for some other great videos of Robbie Williams

Come Undone - http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4RPr1f3_Q
Rock DJ - http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-MZUozWqE
Let Love Be Your Energy - http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyGmGS17oo
Lazy Days - http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwtwTBv89o
Something Stupid (featured Nicole Kidman) - http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDL36d2_t0

3 comments:

gaspar said...

Gabriel, do you have some cd the Robbie Williams?

Pam said...

I always make confusion, but you wrote RobiN in the eighth line. hehe. He's really great. see you :)

clóvis said...

Hi Gabriel, how are you?
Well I like music very much, all type of music but when the subject is international music I have a problem, I never get memorize who is the singer and nor what is the name of the music, then when I read his post I didn't remenber nobody with the name of Robbie Willians, but when a listened "Angel", I recognize who was Robbie Willians and I can tell you I like very much the music of him.