Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Friday: Julia Michaels has purchased, or hired, a chainsaw
  • New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The Briefing

"What's a better way of describing Robbie Williams than 'Robbie Williams'?"

  • November 8, 2010
  • Popjustice

This is something seen a lot recently by sub­scribers to 'Virgin Media', the better-than-Sky-but-with-rubbish-interface digital TV service thing.

The important bit is the strip along the bottom. It's not sig­ni­fic­ant because of the number of meetings and emails that were probably involved in securing this ulti­mately quite under­whelm­ing Robbie Williams November 'takeover' (we are not certain that the most inter­est­ing Robbie Williams stuff this month is anything to do with his solo career), but it's sig­ni­fic­ant because of the phrase 'The Rock DJ returns'.

We admire the con­fid­ence with which they've used the phrase 'The Rock DJ' to describe Robbie, as if it is as much a part of the language as 'The Material Girl' with regards to Madonna, or 'The Thin White Duke' for Bowie. But it is not. To the best of our knowledge it has never been used before and it will, almost certainly, never be used again. It is horrible.

Top 10 Names One Could But Never Will Give Robbie Williams
1. The Angel
2. The Not Regretter
3. The Strong Man
4. The Someone Stupid
5. The Kid With Kylie Minogue
6. The Sin Sin Sinner
7. The Body
8. The Rudebox
9. The He's Madonna
10. The Feeler

Well that wasn't very funny was it.

  • Kylie Minogue
  • Madonna
  • Robbie Williams
Previous Article
  • The Briefing

This is quite exciting — a small bit of the new Michael Jackson single

  • November 5, 2010
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Next Article
  • Songs

Oh Land — 'Sun Of A Gun'

  • November 8, 2010
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Pop as in popular
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Julia Michaels has purchased, or hired, a chainsaw
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Halsey interview: "I don't believe people who say they're themselves all the time"
  • 50 questions with Mark Ronson…
  • The full-length actual Mutya Keisha Siobhan interview
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Julia Michaels has purchased, or hired, a chainsaw
  • 2
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 3
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 4
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 5
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 6
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.