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Robin Thicke - 'Magic'

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Fraser McAlpine | 09:12 UK time, Thursday, 23 October 2008

Robin ThickeSometimes life is too amazing for words, y'know? Jamiroquai got into endless amounts of trouble with music critics, for being so heavily influenced by Stevie Wonder that he might as well have had corn-rows and massive shades, but no-one cared. They just kept buying his crazy records and enjoying his choice of headgear.

Now here's Robin Thicke, and he seems to be doing the exact same thing with Jamiroquai. It's like a photocopy of a printout of a scan of an original photo, and you know what? It doesn't matter at all. This type of thing happens all the time in music and anyway, funky disco music is fantastic.

But it does allow me to make a joke about Hatman (whose alter-ego is millionaire playboy Jay Kay) and his new sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder.

What? I never said I was mature...

Then there are the lyrics. I won't linger on the music because all you really need to know is that he's Kid Jamiroquai. But the lyrics are amazing. This is not due to their extensive literary qualities, or clever imagery. It's mainly because Robin does make some extraordinary claims about the things that he can do.

For example:

"I can make the pain disappear
I can erase the past
All I got is concrete all around me wooo...
But I can see the countryside
It can be raining and I can make the sun shine
I can fly
I can bend metal with my mind"

To which the only sane response is "no you can't, no you can't, no you can't, actually that's physically impossible, no you can't..." until the song has finished. Apparently, lying is sexy. Who knew?

What we should do is put this song in a room with 'I'm Every Woman' and let them battle it out. They can have a brag-off, and we can all go and get on with our lives.

Who's with me?

Three starsDownload: Out now
CD Released: October 27th

(Fraser McAlpine)

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