Cursed by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• Bm – A – E – G – A – Bm – A – E
  i – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – i – bVII – IV

Part 2 (0:16)

• G – A – Bm – A – E – G – A – Bm – A
  bVI – bVII – i – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – i – bVII

Part 3 (0:31)

• E – Bm – A – E – G – A – D
  IV – i – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – bIII

Part 4 (0:48)

• Bm – G – Em
  i – bVI – iv

Part 5 (1:05)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 6 (1:22)

• G – A – Bm – A – E – G – A – D – Bm
  bVI – bVII – i – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – bIII – i

Part 7 (1:37)

• G – Em – D – F♯m
  bVI – iv – bIII – v

Part 8 (1:54)

• C – G – Bm – A
  bII – bVI – i – bVII

Part 9 (2:12)

• E – G – A – Bm – A – E – G – A – D
  IV – bVI – bVII – i – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – bIII

Part 10 (2:27)

• Bm – G – Em – D
  i – bVI – iv – bIII

Part 11 (2:45)

Same chords as Part 10 (2:27).

Part 12 (3:02)

• F♯m – C – G – Bm
  v – bII – bVI – i

Part 13 (3:20)

• A – E – G – A – Bm (×2)
  bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – i

Part 14 (3:35)

• A – E – G – A – D – Bm – G – Em
  bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – bIII – i – bVI – iv

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, B major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Escapology, 2002), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Escapology, 2002), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.