Pretty Face (song)

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"Pretty Face"
Single by Robbie Williams
from the album Britpop
ReleasedOctober 2025
Recorded2024–2025
Genre
Length3:47
Label Columbia
Songwriters
  • Robbie Williams
  • Karl Brazil
  • Owen Parker
  • Tom Longworth
  • David Paul Taylor
Producers
  • Karl Brazil
  • Owen Parker
  • Tom Longworth
Robbie Williams singles chronology
"Human"
(2025)		"Pretty Face"
(2025)

"Pretty Face" is a song by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. Released in October 2025, it became the fourth single from his thirteenth studio album Britpop (2026). [1]

Contents

Background and composition

Musically, "Pretty Face" blends jangling guitars, a mid-tempo Britpop rhythm and a chorus built for live performance. Reviewers noted echoes of Oasis, Blur and the broader 1990s Manchester scene, while observing that the track avoids pastiche by pairing its retro arrangement with Williams’s contemporary vocal tone. [2]

Music video

The music video for "Pretty Face" was released in early November 2025 and recreates the look and atmosphere of The Word , the Channel 4 late-night programme that aired from 1990 to 1995. The show was known for its chaotic energy and early UK television appearances by acts including Nirvana and Oasis. [3]

Directed by Charlie Lightening, the video reconstructs the programme's studio layout, handheld camera movement and tightly packed standing audience. To achieve a convincing 1990s look, the team added analogue distortion, tape wobble, colour bleed and on-screen captions mimicking a VHS recording. The opening caption — "LIVE ON THE WORD" — mirrors the style used in the original programme. Williams appears with bleached-blond hair and a red tracksuit, visually recalling his mid-1990s era. On his official website he described the clip as “a step back into the world where I first imagined myself as a solo artist [4]

Live performances

"Pretty Face" was performed on The Graham Norton Show in October 2025, where Williams appeared as guest and musical performer. [5]

Williams included "Pretty Face" in his Long 90's Tour, a run of small-venue shows spotlighting the influences behind Britpop and revisiting material associated with his mid-1990s sound. [6]

Commercial performance

"Pretty Face" performed strongly on sales-based rankings. On 23 October 2025, the track debuted at number 14 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart and number 17 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. [7]

Track listing

Digital single
  1. "Pretty Face" – 3:47 [8]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2025)Peak
position
UK Singles Downloads (OCC)14
UK Singles Sales (OCC)17

References

  1. ↑ "Pretty Face | Tracks | Robbie Williams Database". www.rwdb.info. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  2. ↑ "Robbie Williams pays homage to 90s TV show The Word with his new video for 'Pretty Face' - Dork". 2025-11-06. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  3. ↑ Dork – Robbie Williams homage to The Word
  4. ↑ Taysom, Joe (2025-11-06). "Robbie Williams revives 'The Word' for his new music video". faroutmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  5. ↑ "Watch Robbie perform and chat on The Graham Norton Show". Robbie Williams. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  6. ↑ Dork – tour context
  7. ↑ "PRETTY FACE". Official Charts. 2025-10-23. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  8. ↑ Apple Music. Pretty Face – Single.
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