SIMON: That's culture writer Daisy Jones, who's got a piece in this month's British Vogue - "America Doesn't Need To Get Robbie Williams." JONES: He doesn't hide his Britishisms. I know a lot of U ...

Robbie doesn’t tone down his British-isms, but instead leads with them, because he can’t help it. In a 2011 interview with Vogue, he said the sentence “Slags are what I like” (try to imagine, like, ...

Americans don’t “get” Robbie Williams now, just like they didn’t in 1999, back when he signed to Capitol Records and embarked on a tour across North America.