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ROBIN THICKE'S GOT 'SOMETHING ELSE' FOR YOU: Soulster set to release new disc.
His third album, titled “Something Else,” hits storees in September complemented by a promotional tour beginning in August.
Described as a “further expansion’ of his breakthrough disc, “The Evolution of Robin Thicke,” the disc is laden with classic soul rhythms.
The first single from his latest project, called “Magic” has already garnered strength at urban radio with its track's reminisence of Curtis Mayfield.
“It was just the inspiration of the great music of Philly and Motown and the ‘70s and Gamble and Huff,” said the platinum-selling artists of the track, as he claimed to have no particular creative process.
However, if Thicke did claim a process, it certainly started long ago.
Thicke is the son of “Growing Pains” sitcom dad Alan Thicke, who in his own right was a musical artist and theme weaver. The elder Thicke is responsible for composing the themes of several game shows and his most memorable offerings are the TV theme songs for “Different Strokes” and “The Facts of Life.” But while these tunes have a certain musical longevity in pop culture, Robin Thicke’s pursuit of music was anything but pop.
“I’ve always naturally, organically been connected to soul music,” Thicke told EUR’s Lee Bailey. “When I was 7 or 8 years old, it started with popular soul music like Michael Jackson and Prince. Then I got into Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and then I started listening to gospel music like Commissioned, John P. Kee and the Clarke Sisters and then I got into rap music and hip hop, Mary J. Blige and Jodeci. And then I got into the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield.”
At this point, Thicke explained, he cannot just pinpoint a single influence.
“It feels like when you’re making music you don’t know where it’s coming from anymore. It’s just sort of embedded in your soul,” he said. And continued that that’s the reason, he finds, that he has been able to cross his blue-eyed soul into the ranks of contemporary soul masters.
“I think that music is the cornerstone of crossing boundaries. It’s always been a part of healing and opening up doors,’ he said.
From those thoughts and his very early attraction to soul music, Robin Thicke began his pursuit of a music career at age 16. Amusingly, to Thicke, there are a number of music fans who consider him an overnight success.
“Well, it’s been a long night,” he said.
In 2000, you might recall a shoulder-length haired gent zipping through traffic in a music video for a track that pieced in samples of Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven.” The song was called “When I Get You Alone.” The artist was Robin Thicke, who at the time simply went by his surname, Thicke. The song got some US play, but did well in Europe.
Thicke began doing work for other artists, penning a number of hits for artists such as Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Mya, Brandy, Marc Anthony, and Usher’s “Confessions” CD – a collaboration for which Thicke earned his first Grammy.
“As time goes on you realize how much everything happens for a reason,” he said of his delayed entrance as a successful artist. “I think too much success too early would have hindered me. So it was good for me.”
But then came “The Evolution” and it’s first single, “Wanna Love U Girl,” which led to a string of follow-up soul hits that the singer has become quite known for. Now, fans are becoming familiar with the first single from his forthcoming disc, “Magic,” which Thicke admittedly said has some political undertone.
“I happened to have written that song when good things were happening to me and I was realizing how much greatness we all have in us and how sometimes the world tries to beat it out of us,” he said. “Sometimes you’re expressing your vulnerabilities and sometimes you’re expressing your positive nature and that’s what that is. Some of us are searching for something bigger internally. I think my music tends to connect with a lot of those people that are searching for something else.”
He mentioned the singles “Magic” and “Dreamworld” when speaking on how his music carries a bit of ambition for a better day – a key phrase for another success story. (Click HEREto HEARMagic")
“I think this music is about what [Barack] Obama represents – hope and change with a little idealism mixed in. The album is called ‘Something Else’ it represents what we’re going through as a country and a world. It’s time for change; it’s time for hope. It’s time for Barack Obama.”
It appears to be time for “Something Else,” too.
To hear more from Robin Thicke and the new disc, hit up his website at www.robinthicke.com.
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