She’s Madonna - Robbie Williams
Ya, my friends. It’s a brilliant single that unfortunately just isn’t getting any big publicity. ‘She’s Madonna’, the third single from his Rudebox debacle, is better than the tabloid press would have you believe. Over a gurgling electro backing from the Pet Shop Boys, Robbie suppresses his usual self-indulgent whining to reveal an acute fascination with the Queen of Pop - “We’re having drinks with Kate and Stella, Gwyneth’s here and she’s brought her fella” suggests someone’s a fan of the 3am girls. Anyway this is brilliant. Absolutely sodding brilliant. Stop sniggering at the back. Apparently inspired by Guy Richie’s brilliant dumping of a former girlfriend (”I love you baby, but face it, she’s Madonna”, a line that forms the chorus) this is a slab of absolute deep-fried electro gold, as camp as a row of tents, barking mad (there’s even a Japanese spoken word section!) and with a strange feeling of wide-eyed beauty pouring out of every one of Robbie William’s (allegedly) gak-incrusted pores.
Hopefully, this will inspire a public reappraisal of Robbie’s absolutely fucking ace ‘Rudebox’ album, which will lift it into the pantheon of the great unappreciated albums.