Robbie Williams on why he hates the lyrics to ‘Millennium’: “I could have done better there”
nme.comRobbie Williams has admitted that he hates his hit single ‘Millennium’.The song features on his 1998 album ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’ and interpolates the theme from the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.It was also the pop star’s first single to top the UK singles chart.
But in an interview with Colin Paterson on BBC Breakfast earlier this week, he heavily criticised the song.Paterson shared: “I interviewed Robbie Williams for @bbcbreakfast about his Golden Globe nominated chimpanzee biopic Better Man, which is spending its second week in the UK Box Office Top 10.
He was very funny on his dislike of his own song ‘Millennium’.”A post shared by Colin Paterson (@colinpaterson_bbc)Reflecting on the hit single, Williams said: “I just don’t like the lyric in that song.
I wrote that crap.”Quoting the lyrics, he continued “‘We’ve got stars directing our fate’, have we? ‘And we’re praying it’s not too late‘, are they? ‘Cause we know we’re falling from grace,’ are we? ‘Millennium’ is just like welded onto the end there.
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