These days, most of music videos are really, really bad: trivial and overly sexualized, they only serve to prolong the agony of music televisions, relics of a bygone era. Even if you put them on willingly on Youtube, you probably only care about the music anyway. But there's this one guy who still them esthetically pleasing, smart and entertaining. Also, it really seems like he has so much fun making them!
This one's probably my favourite: William's a guardian angel, acompanying a young girl who either can't see him or does not pay any attention to him. He's getting hurt to protect her time and time again as she's walking and texting. Finally, he gets so enraged punching pidgeons that he catches on fire! Tha video's absurd, and so is part of the lyrics ("Father tricked the system by moving bricks to Brixton and learning how to fix them" is just a lovely alliteration). Also, it has Kaya Scodelario starring in it. Need I say more?
Let's go back in time to early 2000's, when Robbie Williams decided it would be great to play a race driver in the '60 who would be called Bob Williams (yeah, the man's little to no shame). Mixing racing scenes and newspaper frontpages and a really haunting chorus (come on, imagine what it must have been like to hear "This new century is bringing me down" in 2001).
The last one is an amazing result of a reunion between Robbie and his former Take That pal, Gary Barlow. From the very beginning you can see the inspiration with Brokeback Mountain: two tough guys wearing denim? Check. Allusive gazes and homosexual tension? Check. Even the bar were they perform their final vocal duo has a confederate flag, so without doubt they wanted you to think about southern USA, a place not so friendly towards two men in love with each other.
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