Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow together for a song on Morrissey

The former Take That companions, Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow, have joined forces again for their first musical collaboration since 2012, working together with a new song that will be part of Robbie’s next album, “Britpop”, coming out on October 10th. Williams and Barlow then return to making music together after more than a decade. The last time they had collaborated was for Robbie’s single “Candy”, who reached the summit of the British charts. Now, the two are together again for the song “Morrissey”, which as the title suggests is focused on the former Smiths frontman and is written from the point of view of a stalker that persecutes him.

Robbie Williams, who has already revealed and released the collaboration with Tony Iommi of his new album, announced Barlow’s participation on his album during a Q&A at the Groucho Club in London, and said: “It’s fantastic, because that particular song is a song made by Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow on Morrissey. The reason I am ‘careful’ of a stalker.

Chris Martin of Coldplay also contributed to the album: the frontman plays the guitar in the new single “Human”, a song that blends a futuristic sound with a very current theme, the growing fear that artificial intelligence can replace us.

Reflecting in a broader way on his creative direction, Robbie admitted that he had felt musically lost in recent years and has narrated:

“In recent times I have been a bit without direction from a musical point of view, because I didn’t know what to do. I chased the past too often, which happens. Fortunately, I remained” in the tour “for a long time, my ascent was long. But then, when the commercial radio stops passing on you, you ask yourself: ‘What was what I was doing?’ And you start looking back.