Robbie Williams Loves Taylor Swift: ‘Who Doesn’t & Who Can’t?’
Robbie Williams is a Swiftie!
The English singer-songwriter stopped by SiriusXM Hits 1 this week to promote his recently released, CGI monkey-led musical biopic Better Man. During his conversation with host Ben Harlum, Williams opened up about his love for Taylor Swift, with whom he performed “Angels” in 2018 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
“I love Taylor Swift. Who doesn’t and who can’t?” he said. “There are levels to this stuff, and she is achieving levels that have been unreached, unmatched. When I was in my pocket of omnipresence, I couldn’t help but go, ‘Hey, the crazy’s showing itself. Hey, this is what crazy looks like. This is making me crazy.’ And people went, ‘Oh, he’s being crazy.’ ‘Yes, I am. I’m insane right now, and I’m having a nervous breakdown.’ The poise that she has and the way that she is navigating very, very unfair things leveled at her — she’s just a girl singing some songs, trying to entertain people. Obviously, with great love comes great hate too. With omnipresence, comes the crazy and she’s navigating it all so well, it would seem from the outside.”
Elsewhere, in an interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM, Williams opened up about his love for Madonna after Cohen called him out for previously “slagging” her for her age. “That’s not nice of me,” Williams said. “Here’s the thing, too, is I absolutely adore her and love her.”
He continued, “The thing is about being a 90s British person, it was wrestling and you did this thing in the press where — which made me me and made us us — but you fill a space and in the 90s and the tail end of that, you filled a space sometimes by being mean, but funny.”
However, despite at times being “unkind” to Madonna, Williams added, “I adore her, respect her, love her music, love everything about her, everything that she’s managed to do in her career. I’ve been a d—. I can be a d—.”
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