The Christmas Present is the 12th studio album by British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, and his first studio album since 2016’s The Heavy Entertainment Show. It was released on 22 November 2019, and features guest appearances from Tyson Fury, Rod Stewart, Jamie Cullum, Helene Fischer and Bryan Adams.
Williams began recording the album in June 2019, just before the final leg of his Wynn Las Vegas residency, and concluded in Vancouver in October 2019. Williams joked that he was going to call the album Achtung Bublé, a play on words of the U2 album “Achtung Baby”, and in reference to Michael Bublé’s “monopoly” on the Christmas music market, which he said “must end now.
”Time for Change” was released as the album’s official lead single on 22 November 2019.
The album’s second single ”Can’t Stop Christmas” was released on 20 November 2020.
“Can’t Stop Christmas“
“Oh, what a miserable year
But what a time to be alive
1.Sadly some friends disappeared
It’s never been like this before
2.It feels like we’re at war
3.So I wonder who’s gonna decide
If we can do the Auld Lang Syne
4.I wish that I could do what I like
With this family of mine
We’re going out of our minds
So what are we to do
5.About your FaceTimes and your Zooms?
There’s a room inside my mind
And it’s always here for you
Nothing’s gonna stop Christmas…
No chance
6.You can’t take away our season
Like you can’t take away the wine
Santa’s on his sleigh
7.But now he’s two metres away
The people gonna need something to believe in
8.After a year of being in
We’ve got a wish list
You can’t stop Christmas time
If you’re wondering what I’d like
9.Socks and sanitiser will do fine
10.I guess you do your shopping online
The high street lights are out
11.There’s nobody about
So where will we all be
Come this time next year?
I know you’ll be with me
And I’ll be here
Nothing’s gonna take Christmas…
You can’t take away our season
Like you can’t take away the wine
Santa’s on his sleigh
But now he’s two metres away
The people gonna need something to believe in
After a year of being in
We’ve got a wish list
You can’t stop Christmas
Why, oh why are we all waiting?
12.The whole damn world anticipating
Beyond boredom past frustration
13.The planet’s locked in what if’s and maybe’s
You can’t take away our season
Like you can’t take away the wine
Let’s lie to Santa Claus
14.Tell him it’s nineteen-eighty-four
The people gonna need something to believe in
After a year of being in
We’ve all missed this
So here’s our wish list
You can’t stop Christmas time!”
15.one of his fans commented about the song: „After the year we all have had, you can’t ”Take That” away from us!!”
source: Wikipedia and AZlyrics
A dalban szereplő dőlt betűs részek utalások a 2020-as év néhány ‘újdonságára’ az emberek életében. Próbáld megtalálni, hogy az alábbi szavak és mondatok melyik dalszövegrészhez kapcsolódhatnak.
- a dystopian social science fiction novel
- lockdown
- politicians and health experts decide what people can do
- vaccination is expected
- due to pandemic lots of things are taken away from people
- victims of the pandemic
- presents and hygiene
- curfew
- home office and online education
- people working in the ‘frontline’
- people are not allowed to do many things they like
- you’re advised to do shopping online to avoid close contact with people
- social distancing
- everything is uncertain
- successful pop group Robbin Williams was member of
keys/megoldások: 1.-14; 2.-8; 3 -3; 4.-12; 5.-6; 6.-1; 7.-9; 8.-11; 9.-5; 10.-2; 11.-4; 12.-10; 13.-7; 14.-13; 15.-15
Vocabulary
to feature | szerepeltetni |
appearances | megjelenések |
final leg | vége (utazásnak) |
residency | lakhely |
to conclude | befejezni |
in reference to | valamire vonatkozóan |
to release | kiadni (lemezt, filmet) |
miserable | szánalmas/ szerencsétlen |
to disappear | eltűnni |
to wonder | tűnődni |
Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns skót költő 1788-ban írt verse egy korábbi népdal dallamára, angol nyelvű országban ismert, főként búcsúzáskor (újév első perceiben vagy temetésen) éneklik |
to go out of our minds | ‘elmegy az eszünk’, nem tudunk normálisan csinálni dolgokat, mert túl idegesek vagyunk, vagy aggódunk |
no chance | nincs rá esély |
to take away | elvenni valamit/ eltüntetni valamit |
sleigh | szánkó |
sanitiser | fertőtlenítő hatású szer |
I guess | úgy gondolom/ hiszem |
to anticipate | számítani valamire |
beyond | valamin túl/ valamin felül |
boredom | unalom |
to lock | lezárni/ bezárni |