Come Undone (4:25)

Come Undone is a song by British pop singer Robbie Williams, it was released as the second single from his album Escapology in the spring of 2003. The song is written by Robbie Williams, Ashley Hamilton (son of George Hamilton), Boots Ottestad and D. Pierre. It was slightly re-mixed for single release along with newly-recorded vocals as the album version was a bit more rough-sounding in its production.

The music video was banned in most countries for being too sexually explicit. It features a hungover Robbie waking up in the morning after a large house party, as he walks around the house flashbacks of the events of the night before are shown. As the song reaches its climax, we see shots of Williams participating in three-way sex with two women (who are in fact porn stars), these shots are interspersed with graphic and unsettling images of snakes, rodents and maggots, mostly crawling on beautiful women. In the final shots, the two women have become men in drag, perhaps a subtle reference to the media’s infatuation with Williams’ sexuality.

“Come Undone” became a top ten hit around the world, due to its controversial video, it was heavily censored by MTV Networks Europe for depicting a debauched (but fully-clothed) Williams having three-way sex with two women.