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"Mommy, why is Robbie Williams fucking a dead mans corpse?"

 
 
Ellis
18:26 / 17.11.01
"Because he is an evil man."
 
 
Ganesh
18:29 / 17.11.01
Did you really have that conversation with your mother, Ellis?
 
 
Ganesh
11:04 / 18.11.01
I will, as a Robbie apologist, that his latest pseudo-1950s schtick is really pissing me off. Not because I'm outraged that he's 'daring' to tackle Sinatra, but because I think it's vaguely pathetic to be quite as pathetically reverential about a past era.

But then, for 'Rock DJ' I can forgive him almost anything. Eventually.
 
 
uncle retrospective
11:53 / 18.11.01
quote:Originally posted by Ellis:
"Because he is an evil man."



More because he's a cunt and must be stopped.
While I suport Robbie's "Live the Dream" stand on life, he is a twat.
 
 
Ganesh
12:13 / 18.11.01
So... he's several synonyms for female genitalia, rather than specifically "evil"?

Another tightly-constructed argument brought to you courtesy of the Music forum...
 
 
suds
12:27 / 18.11.01
i saw robbie on the telly last night and thought it was a pretty neat affair, especially when i flicked to channel 3 and saw cliff richard dancing around a seventies looking studio attempting to sing elvis hits while being surrounded by half naked dance students. robbie can't really carry the tunes as well as he should being the pop idol that he is, but it looks like he really does dig the songs of the rat pack. the ending made me quite ill tho, with the whole ego boost ridiculousness that was flaunted.
anyone else see it? or was myself, and my housemates the only ones who were geeks enough to stay in and watch robbie williams, uh, and blind date?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:58 / 18.11.01
uncle retro - stop calling robbie williams a cunt - no way will he ever be half as beautiful!
 
 
Ganesh
14:04 / 18.11.01
He's more of a bell-end, really.
 
 
The Natural Way
17:53 / 18.11.01
While I suport Robbie's "Live the Dream" stand on life, he is a twat.

Oh, that old Oasis, indie anthem, "You can have it all, but how much do you want it?" schtick really fucks me off. That's the worst thing about the Robbie phenomenon as far as I'm concerned.

Gripe:

I just find all this we love Robbie, hero of the people, thing really irritating. He's the ultimate in post-modern pop (even going so far as to reappropriate the whole Rock God constantly revamping his star image deal) and the ultimate in boring. Did anyone see that fucking awful T4 special about the making of his bank heist video? Awful, just awful. And then we had to sit through the finished product....and THIS, this shite concert... Doesn't anyone think this is the pinnacle of self-congratulatory/self indulgent bollocks? I just can't stand the way we're all supposed to sit and clap and smile and go on about "cheeky Robbie" like a bunch of monkeys.

God, can't bear it....going to find and fight him now......
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:06 / 19.11.01
The one thing that redeemed Robbie when they first started plugging him in Australia was the fact that I heard the quote floating around how, during his boyband days, he'd "work really hard all day, then go out at night and get completely cunted." Something in that appealed to me while I was at uni, really.

I kinda like him. He's a bit of a dick, but he's a little like the bloke on pub karaoke who somehow has a multi-million buck career. Which is a little enviable, really. He can't really sing (as this I'm-a-hipster,-really! thing proves) but he's remained (at least in appearances) relatively normal, while giving the impression that it's money for old rope, as far as he's concerned.

Except for the covering his face compulsively while walking around the airport thing, that is.

And Ganesh is right. Fuck you, "Rock DJ". It's the song that cures all ills and stops all ire. Bastard.

And hey - at least he's not hanging out with Jamie Oliver in one of those fucking hats...
 
 
Bear
08:14 / 19.11.01
I kinda enjoyed it to be honest but then I was more stoned than I have been in a loooong time, but when the real Frank kicked in half way through one of the songs it really showed how shit Robbie really was..

But if it turns out that he doesnt really like the music and is just using it to make him look "cool" I will hunt him down and chop of his toe...
 
 
Basil
08:46 / 19.11.01
The Arthur Askey of pop strikes agian.
 
 
rizla mission
14:20 / 19.11.01
Never thought I'd say this in relation to anything, but I'm afraid Liam Gallagher has the final word on this subject:

"you fookin' goon!"
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:29 / 19.11.01
I'm sorry, he's never going to be able to top one of his recent proclaimations about Damon Albarn: quote:"That cunt wants a wig."Fookin' genius!
 
 
Ganesh
14:44 / 19.11.01
Yunrunce: have you completely missed the Robbie backlash?
 
 
The Natural Way
17:36 / 19.11.01
No, just stuck there.

I suppose you either like his whole thing or you don't. Don't like his arse tunes, find his star persona irritating...hate the way everyone's expected to like him...

No...can't get beyond it..must try..go to....

Fuck it.

He's an arse.
 
 
Ganesh
18:01 / 19.11.01
Okay, we're moving into gender-neutral anatomy now, I guess.

I don't think y'need to be as all-or-none. Surely it's possible to like X song by a specific artist without having to subscribe utterly to his/her cult of personality?
 
 
The Natural Way
18:19 / 19.11.01
That's true, but I just find it sooo hard to separate his songs from the whole Robbie Williams phenomenon. Esp. when they're full of all that "we can make it if we try" crap (if not in terms of lyrical content then at least in terms of general football terrace - style anthem atmosphere), and his godawful cheekychappy, "I've got half of Columbia up my nose", Robbierap philosophising - that isn't really philosophising at all, because, hey, it's all so knowing and post-ironic and....AIIEEERGGHGH! NO! AIIEEEEEEERGHURGH!

See, it's all just wrong. You would understand this, if only you had eyes to see. Seriously, I couldn't care less if people like some of his tunes, but, for me, uh-uh, no way...

Maybe it has something to do with my Auntie deciding it would be really touching ("you know, just like in Four Weddings...") if Angels was playing as my Nan's coffin descended into the furnace. That was SO wrong. Definitely in the worst possible taste. Bloody woman and her withered arm.
 
 
pantone 292
18:47 / 19.11.01
at risk of flippancy after yunrunce's nan's death.....robbie's has 'fuck me' written all over him, fuckingly fuckable, mmm juicy.
reminds of the promise of hot sex i used to read into the deportment of butch dykes... [still do if they match up to Peggy Shaw]
and I seem to be irretrievably hookable by crooners! Moonglow, anyone?
 
 
Ganesh
19:13 / 19.11.01
Scary fact 1: 'Angels' is now the most popular funeral accompaniment, having beaten 'My Way' into second place.

Scary fact 2: my (same-sex) partner and I 'outed ourselves' at my sister's mixed Muslim/Church of Scotland wedding by getting up and dancing to this when hassled to "grab yourself a woman and get smooching". Those Barbeloids with long memories and strong stomachs may recall my somewhat sickly blow-by-blow account...
 
 
Ganesh
19:22 / 19.11.01
([off-topic] I wonder what a living man's corpse would look like...? [/off-topic])
 
 
Rev. Orr
22:03 / 19.11.01
quote: ([off-topic] I wonder what a living man's corpse would look like...? [/off-topic])

Keith Richards.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:27 / 20.11.01
quote:Originally posted by Orr:


Keith Richards.


I beg to differ. Iggy Pop is clearly a dead body powered by a very small series of machine-like devices. Any maybe some cogs. And stuff.

Going. to. stop. now.
 
 
Kopi
03:53 / 20.11.01
I have to side with Ganesh. Robbie Williams is drool-worthy. And Rock DJ kicks ass.

Of course, this being said by a person that has a 24X36 poster of the cheeky lad on her wall.....

Kopi
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
07:47 / 20.11.01
quote:Originally posted by yunrunce:
Bloody woman and her withered arm.
If you don't use this as the name for a band, you're doing music a disservice, yunrunce!
 
 
rizla mission
13:28 / 20.11.01
And, assuming Bloody Woman and Her Withered Arm lived up to the name, she'd be a hell of a lot better than R***** fuckin' W******!
 
  
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