One year ago Pharrell Williams asked Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Interscope, ?What are you doing with Robin Thicke?? A few months later, Robin was recording his first single?Wanna Love You Girl? with Pharrell in Miami, as a newly signed artist on Pharrell?s label, Star Trak Records. This explosive, smash single immediately attracted the attention of radio and club DJs across the country.
The Evolution of Robin Thicke is the second solo album from the critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning songwriter, producer. The album is a timeless work of art. With a voice of purity, passion and soulfulness, Robin brings to life the stories and emotions of the last two years of his life. Admittedly, those two years have been a tumultuous ride of ups and downs. The Evolution of Robin Thicke is filled with incandescent magic. It is an album that tells the tales of love, loss, temptation, redemption and finding hope when all the odds are against you.
?My greatest desire with this album was to write songs that were completely honest and sing them with the emotion I was feeling when I wrote them, so that whoever listens to my music is brought as close to my experiences and life as possible.? With this intention, Robin created songs such as, ?Lost without You? (the second single). An instant classic, this song is about Robin?s insecurities and his need to be desired and loved. With sweeping vocals over rhythmic Spanish guitar, this song takes you away and makes you sing along. On the psychedelic, ?High School Man? is where Robin infuses rock and hip-hop and poetically admits ?I?m a hater? as he hates on those with more success than him realizing, ironically, he just wants what they have.
Finishing off The Evolution of Robin Thicke is the hopeful and encouraging ?Thank You.? On this gospel inspired, piano ballad Robin sings, ?maybe I?m the one who never gets up ?till he falls,? making the discovery that he has to be thankful for everything that comes into his life?the tears, the joy, the failures and the successes. Always carrying a heavy heart, Robin taught himself to play piano at the age of twelve so he could have an outlet to express himself. By the age of fourteen, he could play anything he heard on the radio. At sixteen, with no formal training, Robin began professionally writing and producing music for recording artists like Brandy and Brian McKnight. Over the years he has amassed dozens of gold and platinum records with artists including Usher, Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson and Christina Aguilera. Reflective, redemptive, passionate and etched with a soulfulness that is undeniable, The Evolution of Robin Thicke is an imaginative and heart-felt album that you cannot help but be moved by, bob your head to and smile throughout.
