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10.08.2008 | Robin Thicke Hoped To 'Achieve Some Healing' On Something Else
For his LP Something Else, Robin Thicke found inspiration from two places: Motown records and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He hopes to capture that nostalgic flair on the album.
"I mean with a little wind in our sails after having the success on the last album, we were all excited to go in [to the studio]," he said. "We wanted to have all the equipment set up, all the percussion instruments and all the guitars and have everybody ... just like kids in a candy store."
This album, for Thicke, was about finding some peace and coming to terms with a world that he sees as unfair at times. "I really just wanted to achieve some healing, and I needed to be healed," he said. "I needed to believe in myself, and my wife — being an African-American actress and being African-American in this world — she faces a lot of challenges that I, as a white man, [don't] have to face. ... Having sympathy and understanding for what she goes through made me wanna write songs."
Thicke also wasn't afraid to mix business and pleasure when he sat down to work on the album. For one song, "Beautifully Imperfect," he sought the advice of his wife, actress Paula Patton. "I wrote it with my music partner, who plays guitar, and my wife actually threw in a few lines here and there. ... I was at the house writing the song, and I had the chorus and some of the verse, but she was struggling with her business and the opportunities in her business because of the color of her skin."
Working together was a natural fit for the couple, and with subject matter that hit so close to home, the song was born from a very organic place. "We just started talking about 'Don't we wish that that those things would go away and we could live in a different world and a different society?' and that's where that song comes from," he said.
Thicke didn't feel the need to impress anyone when he was making Something Else. Why? Because Thicke feels pressure to be good no matter what. "I've always put so much pressure on myself, nobody could ever do that to me," he said.
"I'm never happy with what I'm doing, and I can't wait to get to the next one so I can do even better — even though some people say this is my best," he added. "That's the job of an artist — to leave the past behind and bear down onto the future to try to make something even better." [source]
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10.06.2008 | Encore @ Foxboro (09.24.08)
Recorded by me! More of my vids are on Thicke-Tube. P.S. I totally got one of LB's drum sticks!
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10.06.2008 | Renel's Birthday Message from Robin
Um, where was my bday message?! Haha jk!
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10.06.2008 | My New Crush: Robin Thicke
Someone got their swirl on last night with the smoothest, coolest White boy ever to grace the cover of Vibe. No, wait. That was Eminem. The cutie I’m referring to is Robin Thicke, and too bad for Vibe; he’s a lot sexier and way more loveable than the “8 Mile” rapper. Other than being two White guys who like hip hop, their hotness radar is not alike.
Ever since the release of “Lost Without U,” and the album it came from, I’ve been hot on the R&B/retro soul singer. His love songs are sexual-healing, ego-boosting, soul-searching classics that open your heart, and make your body ache for something or someone special – for happiness.
So, it’s no surprise that I’m eagerly awaiting the release of his new album, “Something Else.” Only this time, Thicke will not only be opening my heart but also my mind.
BET.com: What can fans expect from your new work?
Thicke: My last album, I was talking about what I was going through, my life and my relationship. And this album I’m talking about what other people are going through. After seeing the world and meeting so many people, so much more than I’ve ever met in my life, I just realized how small I am in the world. There’s a lot more to talk about and learn about in this world, beyond myself.
What did you learn about people?
I learned that people are strong and beautiful and there’s strength everywhere in the nooks and crannies of the forgotten people of the world. That’s why hopefully somebody like Barack Obama will be in the White House to jog our memory about those other people that are being forgotten.
He cares. He doesn’t care about himself and his rich friends’ pockets. He cares about the people. You can see it. You can hear it. Some people say it’s just words, but if you don’t say it, you obviously don’t feel it or don’t think about it. So, you gotta say it first to even begin doing something about it. And Obama is the one saying it. That’s why Kennedy, King and those people made such a difference, because they said it.
Just when I thought I couldn’t like you any more …
(Laughs) Yes! Vote for Barack Obama, people! Go register to vote and vote for Barack Obama, and nobody else. Don’t even think about it! There is nobody else.
Paula Patton is one lucky woman.
I then began by asking him about his new single “Magic” and his magic touch.
What’s magic? What’s your magic touch?
Magic is love, but also it’s about not giving up on yourself and the possibilities of this beautiful world.
My magic touch is my music. That’s the best thing I can do. I’m pretty good in bed, but I think I’m better writing a song.
What’s Paula’s magic touch?
Her righteousness and her goodness…
You guys met when you were 14 years old.
Yeah, we just met and we were friends. It was this and it was that, the whole teenage love affair and then after she got out of college, we settled down together.
I don’t think I’ve ever dated anyone. I was a pretty fast kid.
Star Trak/Interscope blue-eyed soul man Robin Thicke will perform some chart “Magic,” with his new Something Else album looking like 150k, give or take, which would be good for #3 next week.
09.29.2008 | Robin Thicke's 'Something Else' lays on the love
Robin Thicke, Something Else
* * * (out of four) LAYING IT ON…
In R&B, it's been an unusually good year for sensitive guys and the women who love them. On the heels of Ne-Yo's The Year of the Gentleman and born-again monogamist Usher's Here I Stand comes Something Else, Thicke's love letter to his wife and unabashed homage to old-school lover men.
Marvin Gaye's impact is heard first and clearest in Thicke's delicately applied cream-and-whiskey tenor and the shivery falsetto that he reaches for on You're My Baby and dips back into throughout the album. But a whole array of Motown and Philly faves also inform tunes ranging from the disco-licious title track and thumping Magic to the glowing, horns-laced The Sweetest Love.
If Thicke doesn't offer the freshness or effortless fluidity of his influences, he's at least a savvy and resourceful student — and a great date, no doubt. — Elysa Gardner
Tue 9.30/Sat 10.4
6:00 PM
BET
106 & Park:
Robin Thicke, T.I. , Ludacris
Wed 10.1
7:00 AM
ABC
Good Morning America:
Robin Thicke
Thu 10.2
10:00 AM
TVONE
TV One on One:
Robin Thicke
Fri 10.3
8:30 AM/2:30 PM/7:30 PM
MOJO
London Live!:
Robin Thicke, Air , Klaxons , Editors
Fri 10.3
9:00 AM
SYN
Live with Regis and Kelly:
Robin Thicke
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09.28.2008 | The Source Interview
"It may have seemed like Robin Thicke came out of nowhere a couple of years ago, but the truth is he’s put in years of work. The Source spent the day with the “Lost Without You” crooner who talked about losing friends because of money drama, being on his own at 17 and all the work he had to put in to get his wife.
ROBIN THICKE: I began with Interscope Records when I was 16, off and on. I was 23 when Andre Harrell–we made my first album together called “The Beautiful World” up at Interscope. Because they spent so much money [on the project], it was critical for it to be an industry success as it was a commercial success. [And] They were having trouble trying to figure out what to do with me next on the label. So after after a long time, finally Pharrell came in and was like, “Hey, what’s up with this kid Robin Thicke? What are you doing to him?”
He’s crazy, ya know. He just asked Jimmy Iovine about me and Iovine said [to me later], “Come on in, Pharrell and I wanted to sit with you, talk to you.” So I came in. I played “Lost Without You” and for Pharrell that was it. He was like, “Forget the rest.”
MC: Uh huh. I don’t know if any of that recorded.
ROBIN THICKE: Haha! ….let me help this kid out. He’s the coolest, ya know, real calm and very intelligent.
MC: Have you heard the N.E.R.D. album?
ROBIN THICKE: Yeah, that shit is bangin’.
MC: Yeah.
ROBIN THICKE: I introduced him a few weeks ago in London.
MC: Oh, word?!
ROBIN THICKE: Yeah, yeah it was hot cause they were performing with Kenna and somebody else, and Pharrell–
MC: Another dude who sings!
ROBIN THICKE: Yeah, Pharrell, back last year, when I did my show in London, he flew out just to do a song with me. And then I was out there, introducing him and I was like, ‘This is crazy!’ Now I get to introduce Pharrell. It was pretty cool.
MC: This Star Trak [crew] is a pretty eclectic catch.
ROBIN THICKE: Yeah definitely.
MC: You, Kenna, N.E.R.D., well Pharrell, I guess.
ROBIN THICKE: Pharrell represents crossing boundaries and breaking genres. Pharrell is the first Pharrell we haven’t seen. He’s this skateboarding, fashion, producing, writing and singing–like Pharrell was the first of his kind in a way. And I think that he represents things that are original and different you know?" [read more...]
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09.28.2008 | Robin Thicke Performance & CD Signing
Robin Thicke will be having an in-store performance and CD signing at Virgin Megastore Times Square.
Robin Thicke
Performance and CD Signing
Virgin Megastore Times Square
Tuesday, October 1st @ 6:00 PM
Description: The first 500 customer’s to buy Robin Thicke’s new CD “Something Else” at the Times Square location only on Tuesday, September 30 beginning at 9 AM will receive a wristband to attend this very special event on October 1st @ 6PM. Time and space are limited so please arrive early.
Thanks to Bailey!
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09.25.2008 | Robin Thicke performs on The Hive
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09.18.2008 | TT Torrez interviews Robin Thicke iPower 921
Part 1
Part 2
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09.18.2008 | Rolling Stone Review: Something Else
"At a time when most R&B Casanovas, taking their cues from rappers, are thuggish egomaniacs — or, in the case of R. Kelly, just plain freaky — Robin Thicke offers a vanilla alternative. (No pun intended.) His largely self-produced third album picks up where his big 2007 hit "Lost Without U" left off, with Thicke cooing in an airy falsetto that holds promises of honesty, fidelity and long nights in the boudoir focused solely on Her Pleasure. The music is a lush, louche swirl of strings, congas and Fender Rhodes that flaunts its debts to Marvin Gaye ("You're My Baby"), classic disco ("Something Else") and Philly soul ("Magic"). As a utilitarian background soundtrack, it'll do nicely — lots of babies will be made to ballads like "Cry No More." But Thicke's songwriting teeters into self-parody, and his mixed metaphors — "We're just spaceships in the night/Ripping the clothes off of the past/Making a new path" — could break the mood of the randiest couples. 3 out of 5 stars." [source]
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09.15.2008 | Amazon.com Video: Dream World (Live)
OMG go watch this immediately!!
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09.15.2008 | Chat Box
Added a new chat box because we were having difficulties with the old one. Enjoy! I'm also working on the forum. Oh and my bday is in 2 more days. yay lol
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09.14.2008 | Pepsi Smash Featured Performance
"Magic"
"Sweetest Love"
"Lost Without You"
"Interview"
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09.13.2008 | Something Else Promo/House of Hype Post-VMA Celebration
Hello everyone...we had some site issues, but we're back! So expect a lot of updates to come!! (For now enjoy this pic from the latest issue of Vibe magazine
