{"id":33784,"date":"2019-11-22T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2019-11-22T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:06:23","slug":"robbie-williams-releases-christmas-album-featuring-tyson-fury-but-is-he-still-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/robbie-williams-releases-christmas-album-featuring-tyson-fury-but-is-he-still-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams releases Christmas album featuring Tyson Fury: But is he still relevant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, former Take That star, Robbie Williams has released his first Christmas album featuring eight covers and twenty original songs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who’s featured?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The album \u2018The Christmas Present\u2019, collaborates with jazz pop singer and radio presenter, Jamie Cullum, in a cover of \u2018Merry Xmas Everybody\u2019, and German singer Helene Fischer in a \u2018Santa Baby\u2019 rework.<\/p>\n

Other collaborations consist of Rod Stewart on two of the tracks, one original song, \u2018Fairytales\u2019, and one deluxe album cover of \u2018It Takes Two.\u2019<\/p>\n

Professional British boxer, Tyson Fury is also featured on William\u2019s original and somewhat controversial track, \u2018Bad Sharon\u2019, where they sing the lyrics \u201cgrab that Sharon from the office, nick the champagne let’s get off it\u201d<\/em>, and a speech clip of Fury saying, \u201chere he comes I can see him. Go to bed you sleepy dossers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u2018Angels\u2019 star has also got his own father involved, otherwise known as Poppa Pete on the album in the track, \u2018It\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u2019.<\/p>\n

What’s the vibe?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As his 13th<\/sup> album release, it has a mixed feel mimicking jazz favourites such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble in Christmas classics such as \u2018Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!\u2019, and \u2018The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire).\u2019<\/p>\n

Hints of Williams past personas are found within his original songs \u2018Time for change\u2019, which sounds similar to Take That tracks and \u2018Snowflakes,\u2019 that creates a reminiscence of his solo work in the mid-00s.<\/p>\n

The track \u2018Soul Transmission,\u2019 creates an 80\u2019s Bandaid feel and upbeat original \u2018Merry Kissmas,\u2019 mirrors Bruno Mars vibes with more funky beats and falsetto.<\/p>\n

The diverse 2019 album is split into two discs. The first named \u2018Christmas past\u2019 features more Christmas classic covers while the second disc named \u2018Christmas future\u2019, holds more of his originals. There are also four deluxe tracks making a grand total of 28 songs for the album.<\/p>\n

On the cover, Williams is displayed as a Scrooge like character, who is holding his own album,\u00a0 to compliment the names for the album and featured discs, but is far from it in his songs.<\/p>\n

Could Robbie make a comeback?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Could this be the start of Rock DJ Williams transition from Christmas office party star to household Christmas name up with Mariah Carey, Wham! and Micheal Buble?<\/p>\n

Or, could Robbie Williams have passed his prime providing us with the question, is he really relevant anymore?<\/p>\n

We asked the public what they thought about the album, the relevancy and the debatable lyrical genius that goes with it.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The Robbie Williams Christmas party\u2019 live show is being held on the 16th<\/sup> of December at the SSE arena Wembley, as well as an ITV December special \u2018It\u2019s not the Robbie Williams Christmas show\u2019.<\/p>\n

The album is available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.<\/p>\n

Words and audio: Drew-Alexandra O’Keeffe<\/p>\n

Image: Amazon.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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