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Q MagazineHis straitjacket is an entrenched reliance on "lighters aloft" ballads, or, ironically, Oasis-derived anthems. [Dec 2002, p.113]
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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.
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It doesn't help that the best song here, "Feel," sounds like a bad Richard Ashcroft B-side; the worst is a seven-minute mariachi stomp about traveling to Las Vegas with a monkey, called "Me and My Monkey."
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Backed by stale songs, formulaic arrangements, and mediocre songwriting, Williams is forced to rely on his volcanic personality to bring this album across -- and despite a few strong performances, he sinks into lame self-parody time and time again.
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Probably the weakest Robbie Williams album to date.
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An unholy brew of overreaching ambition and soul-destroying complacency.
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Like Eminem, Williams is desperate to give his own spin on tabloid coverage and determined to prove himself as human as the rest of us, but incapable of letting us forget he's a star. Except Eminem is the voice of a generation while Robbie Williams is just the voice of Robbie Williams, and while Eminem has Dre, Robbie has a ramshackle posse of musicians roped in to create this album's (wait for it) 'spontaneous' live sound.
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BlenderBeing shallow and immature is both his strength and his weakness. [Apr 2003, p.131]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 67
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Mixed: 4 out of 67
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Negative: 11 out of 67
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May 19, 2012
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najiaNov 7, 2006its amazing
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KillaBenJan 9, 2006