Supreme (song)

"Supreme" is a song recorded by English singer Robbie Williams for his third studio album Sing When You're Winning. It was released as the third single from the album on 11 December 2000, by Chrysalis Records. Commercially, the single reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, topped the charts in Hungary and Poland, and peaked within the top 10 in six additional European countries and New Zealand.

"Supreme"
Single by Robbie Williams
from the album Sing When You're Winning
Released11 December 2000
Recorded2000
GenrePop rock
Length4:15
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Guy Chambers
Robbie Williams singles chronology
"Kids"
(2000)		 "Supreme"
(2000)		 "United"
(2000)
Music video
"Supreme" on YouTube

Composition

The bridge of the song contains an interpolation of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". The string instrument part is a François de Roubaix-composed piece from the José Giovanni-directed film Dernier domicile connu starring Lino Ventura and Marlène Jobert.

The song was re-recorded in a swing tone, and titled "Swing Supreme" for his 2013 album Swings Both Ways.

Chart performance

The song became another success for Williams, making the top ten in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, and several other countries. Williams also recorded a French version of the song that was released in France, peaking at number 12 and spending 34 weeks on the French chart, being certified Gold by the SNEP.[1]

Music video

The "Supreme" video, titled "Gentlemen racers" as seen in its opening credits, is a tribute to British Formula One driver Jackie Stewart. Williams portrays the fictitious character Bob Williams, a rival driver competing for the 1970s F1 World Championship. Williams eventually crashes his car, makes a surprise recovery, and ultimately loses the title when he gets diarrhea before a race and is unable to line up on the starting grid due to getting locked into his caravan when the manager thought there was no one in the caravan. An epilogue reveals that Bob Williams went on to become a celebrated blues guitarist while Jackie Stewart won the championship.

The video includes stock footage of Stewart with Williams digitally inserted in many scenes, creating the near-perfect illusion of a neck-and-neck pursuit of the championship title. The video makes extensive use of the split-screen technique as it is often seen in movies from the 1960s and 70s (for instance in the 1970 feature racing movie Le Mans), and the scenes with Robbie Williams were given a yellowed, grainy image texture in the digital editing process to match the faded look of the original 35mm celluloid footage with Jackie Stewart. As yet another movie cliché, fake newspaper headlines are shown intermittently to help narrate the story.

Track listings

Charts and certifications

Samples and cover versions

The McFly song "I Need a Woman" from 2010's Above the Noise album samples the riff from "Supreme". The Turkish band Dolapdere Big Gang recorded a version for their 2010 album Art-Ist. Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester made a cover in their 2001 album Superhits.

The song is the title theme for the Polish TV drama series Londyńczycy (Polish for The Londoners) aired on TVP 1 since late 2008.

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