Concept: Robbie, it's what's for dinner. This is one of my favorite songs and I was looking forward to seeing the video for the first time. However, as those MTV bastards would have it, I would never get a chance to see it. Now I must admit, I'm not an avid MTV viewer. Oh no, I prefer not to waste my time watching ass shaking Ricky Martin videos. No, thank you! I do ,however, make a few exceptions and watch it, for instance like when Robbie Williams premieres his videos. Now, I was too busy with school to even hear about a premiere, but one day I got a call from my friend and she asked me if I had seen the new Robbie Williams video. Well, I almost crapped my pants. "Excuse me," I said. "Yeah," she said, "he rips off his skin. He's disturbed." Hmmmm. After that I watched MTV whenever I got the chance hoping I'd see the video. A whole freaking month of MTV, BUT DID SEE I?!? NO. So I had to install Quick fucking Time on my computer to do this review. I hope you people are grateful ...
I believe the first words out of my mouth after seeing this video were, "What the fuck?" Now it's been a good 10 years since I've actually been inside a skating rink, but damn have things changed! Back when I use to go skating, the only things to eat at the snack-bar were onion rings and soft pretzels. Now, we had a DJ, but under no circumstance did we ever, and I mean ever, have a male stripper. We did, though, have a big wide screen thingy where they played the newest Paula Abdul videos...I know, we were such privileged children. My younger sister goes skating every other Saturday and I thought I'd ask her about this whole stripper thing because, you know, men taking off their clothes is a good thing. However, when I asked my sister, she just look at me with a, "have you been sniffing white-out again?!?" look on her face. Apparently we don't have male strippers at our skating rinks here in Delaware and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the same goes for the rest of America. So, I've concluded it must be a European thing.
Now, I love strippers as much as the next sex fiend, but I just wasn't feeling the whole rip my skin off and have you eat it thing. I'm sure there was some kind of deep hidden meaning behind the concept, and God knows those skanks needed a meal or two, but eww, I just couldn't get past the yum, yum, dinner time thing. For some strange reason cannibals really scare me. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I look like what's for dinner...?
Eventhough the video was extremely strange and I'm not smart enough to look at it artistically, I still enjoyed certain parts. I mean Robbie stripping was rather nice. Well, except that blurry spot he has on his crotch. What is that? It doesn't look healthy, he should have that checked out. Oh, and I liked the part where the one girl skating trips and falls, now that was funny! Oh, that never happened? Well, smarty pants, my point is, the video wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be. Sure flesh eating roller skanks are scary but it's all about having a sense of humour and about not taking things so seriously. Robbie, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't eat you even if you are famous.
Deep Thought- It would have been funnier if they could have gotten Anthony Hopkins to be one of the skating cannibals. Oh Clarice...