Has anybody else noticed that Robbie Williams has mentioned the Vietnam War in his latest opus? Am I being paranoid or is there something totally wrong about this, or is the man with an 80 million pound record deal bringing his political conscience to the masses? We're talking about a war which resulted in the deaths of 3.5 million South East Asians (a huge fact barely mentioned in any western retrospective), a war of attrition and technology against a poor rural peasant population who merely wanted the right to self determination (sound familiar?). A war of such devastation that the only justification offered by Westmoreland (head of US forces) for US brutality was 'the average asian places less value on life than the average westerner'. Does mentioning Vietnam give you some sort of artistic credibilty? Will some Q magazine hack describe this as Williams new found maturity? One things for sure, seas of labotomized zombies will sway in unison with lighters held aloft.
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- 2006-02-01 @ 08:18:59
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- 2006-02-01 @ 09:37:41
...I would have preferred it if you had just said, 'Has anyone else noticed Robbie Williams lately?'
Then I could have thought, 'no, I havent.' And that would have made me feel good. But then again, by saying that, I would have thought about him, and that would have been bad.
Curses to you for making me think about him full stop!!
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- 2006-02-01 @ 13:08:52
Sorry to put a downer on your day old chap. Was in rant mode and Nobbie Williams name checking the Vietnam war is too wrong not to be taken down.
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- 2006-02-06 @ 09:29:18
I understand completely...its almost as bad as when I saw Mariah Carey 'perform' at Live 8.
Still wake in cold sweat
In "Tripping" he quotes Ghandi and everyone things they are his lyrics and he's so profound and deep and not the quote stealing old queen he really is.