Sexed Up by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 22

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)

• C
  I

Part 2 (0:01)

• Em – F – G – C (×2)
  iii – IV – V – I

Part 3 (0:14)

• F – Am – Em – C
  IV – vi – iii – I

Part 4 (0:26)

• F – Am – G – F
  IV – vi – V – IV

Part 5 (0:39)

• G – E – Am – Dm
  V – III – vi – ii

Part 6 (0:51)

• G – C – Em – F – G – C
  V – I – iii – IV – V – I

Part 7 (1:04)

• Em – F – G – C – E – F – Fm
  iii – IV – V – I – III – IV – iv

Part 8 (1:16)

• C – Em – F – G – C – Em – F
  I – iii – IV – V – I – iii – IV

Part 9 (1:29)

• G – C – F – Am – Em
  V – I – IV – vi – iii

Part 10 (1:41)

• C – F – Am – G
  I – IV – vi – V

Part 11 (1:54)

• F – G – E – Am
  IV – V – III – vi

Part 12 (2:06)

• Dm – G – C – Em – F
  ii – V – I – iii – IV

Part 13 (2:19)

• G – C – Em – F – G – C – E – F
  V – I – iii – IV – V – I – III – IV

Part 14 (2:31)

• Fm – C – F – G – Em
  iv – I – IV – V – iii

Part 15 (2:43)

• Am – F – G – Em – Am – B♭ – F
  vi – IV – V – iii – vi – bVII – IV

Part 16 (2:56)

• Fm – C – Em – F – G – C
  iv – I – iii – IV – V – I

Part 17 (3:08)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:01).

Part 18 (3:21)

Same chords as Part 7 (1:04).

Part 19 (3:33)

• C – Gm (×2)
  I – v

Part 20 (3:46)

Same chords as Part 19 (3:33).

Part 21 (3:58)

Same chords as Part 19 (3:33).

Part 22 (4:11)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.

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.