Welcome to the Panic Manual, where one post about hip hop star du jour Taio Cruz leads to one about reality show band N-Dubz which ultimately leads to a post about the king of UK pop – Robbie Williams. Are we an indie blog or an English teen beat? You decide.
This post came because I saw the previous post’s song title and thought it was a cover of the Robbie Williams song of the same name. Then I thought about how weird it was that his song had such a dynamic group of backup singers. At the time of the songs release, Robbie Williams could do no wrong – Angels was the hottest song around, his new album I’ve Been Expecting You was getting great reviews and selling extremely well and he was dating one of the blonde girls from All Saints (the one who never ever sang, even on the song Never Ever *groan*) Part of me thinks this will inspire a whatever happen to All Saints post, which will somehow lead back to Oasis.
The song No Regrets featured guest vocals by two Neils – Neil Hannon of overly-Brit pop band The Divine Comedy and Neil Tennant of synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. How does that even happen? I don’t even know. Anyways, the use of Tennant’s posh/soft voice and Hannon’s almost baritone delivery added a nice touch to this pop song, which sadly spirals out of control at the end. Either way, check it out.
