Robbie Williams has revealed he thinks that releasing his 2006 single ‘Rudebox’ is the “largest remorse” of his profession.
The track sparked each confusion and derision when it was launched, seeing Williams depart from his traditional pop-rock type for a weird hip-hop sound. Its lyrics had been additionally notably noteworthy, with the eyebrow-raising chorus “Do the rudebox/Shake your rudebox”, references to Adidas Superstars, DJ Semtex and TK Maxx, and different traces comparable to “Up yer jacksy, cut up your kecks/Pocket stuffed with Durex, physique stuffed with Mandrex/Are we gonna have intercourse?”
Now, Williams has mirrored on his embarrassment at releasing the track, which was the title observe from his seventh solo album, forward of a brand new four-part Netflix documentary. The sequence is ready to discover the highs and lows he has skilled all through each his profession and private life.
“My largest remorse is placing that out as the primary single,” he mentioned. “If I’d have put it out third and defined correctly [that] it’s daft – I do know! I’m not attempting to be a grime artist. I do know it’s daft.
“In the documentary, the largest cringe level for me is explaining to an viewers who’re about to hearken to ‘Rudebox’ for the primary time that that is gonna be the largest single since ‘Angels’. Then I had one other considered it, that it’s my second most essential single as a result of ‘Angels’ gave me the profession and ‘Rudebox’ heralded the tip of my imperial part. So in a manner I used to be proper, however not in the best way I wished to be.”
Williams additionally spoke about his time relationship Spice Girls’ Geri Halliwell. “I simply discovered her firm very, very simple,” he defined. “[But] it was a really complicated relationship, as a result of she’s a woman and I’m a boy, we’re superb associates attempting to kind out the wreckage of the previous.”
He additionally mentioned his historical past of self-harm and despair, which might be explored within the documentary.
“Thank God psychological well being is being talked about otherwise. I learn one thing that triggered me, any person speaking about ‘celeb washing’ of psychological diseases,” he defined in an interview with The Mirror. “And celebs making psychological well being points horny.”
He continued, explaining that there was “nothing horny” about his suicide try, and including that individuals “have to be cautious about what we are saying and the way we are saying it.”
