I’ve been informed that people outside UK generally don’t know or care (not caring is the correct response BTW.).
Still seems bizarre to me.
“Outside the UK” may not be correct. “Outside Western Europe” maybe or “younger people outside the UK”. Around the release of Swings Both Ways was the last time I noticed his presence in the media here in Germany, that would be 10-15 years ago.
Syrian here.
Nope.
Well, you’ve had a lot on in the last 30 years…
Not that good with faces or pop singers, but pretty sure it’s Robbie Williams.
Since lemmy-verse user base skews heavily towards the western world, I think the real gap is not going to be UK vs Not UK, but US vs Rest of the World. And since there was a popular movie and a Netflix documentary about him, even Americans are probably more aware of who he is.
I’ve seen Better Man and did not recognize OPs pic as Robbie Williams.
Am American and while I recognize the name I wasn’t into his music and forgot his fsce.
Smuggy McSmugface?
He’s quite a nice guy, actually!
Vaguely familiar
Robby Williams?
Yes. I believe it is a singer. Don’t remember the name though. Williams or something. Was famous in 90s.
American here. I have no idea who this is.
Canada. No
Yeah, it’s Matt Damon and Patton Oswald’s fusion dance result.
Huh? I thought it was the baby from the hokey 90s show Dinosaurs, all grown up??
I was thinking alt universe Rami Malek
Aussie here, Australians love Robbie.
Plus he did that song with Kylie, so if anyone didn’t know him before then they certainly knew him afterwards.
No. Or as Brits say, no’r.
Didn’t recognize the image, not at all.
I’ve heard of the name Robbie Williams… And I’m pretty sure he’s a musician. That’s as much as I’ve got.
Can’t say if I’ve ever heard his music.
To be fair, a year ago I could have said the exact same thing about Taylor Swift. But you know, now I’ve heard “shake it off”, so I can recognize 1 song. I still wouldn’t recognize her face.
You would have heard his music a lot, probably a lot more than Taylor Swift’s because it is actually used in movies and advertising. Taylor will make the end credits where Robie’s song is the plot of the movie.
If you say so
real “not like other girls” energy you got :/ get well soon
Finland here, I recognize him. I like his music too. Seen him at the Pori Jazz Festival a couple years ago.
Jazz?
Yeah, I believe he had soome kind of jazz/swing phase later in his career
He is the funny monkey man, nothing else is noteworthy about him though
