Escapology - Robbie Williams
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  • Summary: UK pop star Robbie Williams follows the success of Sing When You're Winning with this, his fifth and most adult-sounding LP.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Musically and vocally, there's few surprises but at least lyrically he's moved on from clever-ish wordplay and inane love songs, to tell tales of being generally screwed-up at the hands of the multi-million dollar pop machine.
  2. While 2000's Sing When You're Winning was a trashy masterpiece that the States ignored, Escapology sounds like a more self-conscious effort to craft a pop-rock blockbuster.
  3. His straitjacket is an entrenched reliance on "lighters aloft" ballads, or, ironically, Oasis-derived anthems. [Dec 2002, p.113]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Negative: 6 out of 30
  1. najia
    10
    its amazing
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  2. KiwiJ
    5
    If the plan was to break Williams in the States, recording his most British album to date probably wasn't such a great move. Whilst its radio friendly melodies should have proved popular, the typically sardonic and "humorous" lyrics simply don't travel very well, and would have left most American listeners non-plussed. Add to that the fact that too many tracks simply sound the same and you have a deeply average album. Expand
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  3. Dave
    2
    I'm a big fan of Robbie Williams and British pop in general, but this cd is truly painful to listen to. Very disappointing.
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