ROBBIE WILLIAMS - SOMETHIN' STUPID

SOMETHIN’ STUPID

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

SONGWRITER: C. CARSON PARKS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SWING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING

LABEL: CHRYSALIS

GENRE: SWING

YEAR: 2001

 

         Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter and entertainer. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, but achieved greater commercial success with his solo career, beginning in 1996. Williams has released seven UK number one singles and eleven out of his twelve studio albums have reached number one in the UK. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the United Kingdom–four albums in the top 60–and in 2006 he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day.

       Williams has received a record eighteen Brit Awards—winning Best British Male Artist four times, two awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music and the 2017 Brits Icon for his "lasting impact on British culture", eight German ECHO Awards, and three MTV European Music Awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted the "Greatest Artist of the 1990s". According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Williams has been certified for 19.9 million albums and 7.8 million singles in the UK as a solo artist. Five of his albums have topped the Australian albums chart. He is also one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold 75 million records worldwide. Williams also topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart. His three concerts at Knebworth in 2003 drew over 375,000 people, the UK's biggest music event to that point. In 2014, he was awarded the freedom of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour.

        Swing When You're Winning is a swing cover album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, and his fourth studio album overall. It was released in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2001 and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

          The album's title is a play on Williams' previous album Sing When You're Winning. In 2013, Williams returned to swing for his tenth studio album Swings Both Ways. Unlike Swing When You're Winning, however, the sequel is nearly evenly divided between covers and original songs penned by Williams and Guy Chambers.

I know I'll stand in line,

until you think you have the time

to spend an evening with me

 

And if we go some place to dance

I know that there's a chance

you won't be leaving with me

 

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place

and have a drink or two

And then I go and spoil it all

by saying something stupid

like :"I love you"

 

I can see it in your eyes

you still dispise the same old lies

you heard the night before

 

And though it's just a line to you

for me it's true

it never seemed so right before

 

I practice everyday

to find some clever lines to say

to make the meaning come true

 

But then I think I'll wait

until the evening gets late

and I'm alone with you

 

The time is right

your perfume fills my head

the stars get red

and oh, the night's so blue

 

And then I go and spoil it all

by saying something stupid

like: "I love you"

 

The time is right

Your perfume fills my head

The stars get red

and oh, the night's so blue

 

And then I go and spoil it all

by saying something stupid

like: "I love you"

"I love you" (3x)