In the ’90s, Robbie Williams was an absolutely huge British pop star — maybe the single biggest. First with the boy band Take That and then as a famously messy solo artist, Williams willed himself to icon status. With all that said, Williams was never really considered part of the ’90s cultural zeitgeist known as “Britpop,” no matter how often he partied with Oasis. So it’s willfully perverse that Williams chose Britpop as the title of his new album. Maybe it’s not as willfully perverse as getting a CGI chimp to play him in a big-budget biopic, but it’s still willfully perverse.
