Released: 14th Nov 2005
2 Versions of this CD were released:
CD1 - Switch it On and Switch It On (Freeform Reform).
CD2 - Switch It On, I Love you More Than You`ll Ever Know and Switch it on (Freeform Reform)
2 Versions of this CD were released:
CD1 - Switch it On and Switch It On (Freeform Reform).
CD2 - Switch It On, I Love you More Than You`ll Ever Know and Switch it on (Freeform Reform)
Amazon UK
Switch It On – [Will’s] exhilarating 1st single to be taken his eagerly awaited 3rd album Keep On.
MusicOHM - Source
Switch It On, the first single from Will Young's third album Keep On, displays a wry sense of humour, cultural context and an eye for the rules of pop-making. What's more, it's easily the raunchiest music the sometime Pop Idol and about-to-be silver screen actor has unleashed.
Will says the song's rhythm is straight outta Bo Diddley, and be that as it may, but could its similarity to George Michael's Faith be more than a passing coincidence now that the designer stubbled ex-Wham! star has retired from the limelight? One gay icon following another? He gets away with it too, because the music otherwise sounds like nothing Michael's.
And what about that video? Taking Top Gun's homoerotic overtones just that little bit further out of the closet, Will stars in his own mini-movie, delightfully named Hot Gun. In it he gets to play a Tom Cruise-type USAF fighter pilot, show off his buff bod and strut about playing slo-mo volleyball on a beach as dog tags rattle and sweat glistens. "Mr Fabulous don't impress me," he growls. Utterly hilarious.
If George Michael insists on retirement, at least we have someone with a talent and humour to match him. And Will doesn't sport dreadful facial hair either.
Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
Switch It On ... implies Young is willing to chance his arm artistically. It has a walloping Bo Diddley hambone rhythm, distorted vocals, frantic harmonica and no tune whatsoever: if nothing else, it's a brave choice as a single.
UKMix - Source
With a video mimicking 80s flick "Top Gun" and a song resembling a weird combination of George Michael's "Faith" and Jessica Simpson's infamous Nancy Sinatra cover, the original Pop Idol returns. I applaud him for being brave enough not to launch his new album with a ballad as the first single ("Leave Right Now" was the lead on his last album "Friday's Child"), but I don't know. It's a grower I'd say. Still, it'll do well, I've no doubt of that.
Alex MacGregor
Switch It On – [Will’s] exhilarating 1st single to be taken his eagerly awaited 3rd album Keep On.
MusicOHM - Source
Switch It On, the first single from Will Young's third album Keep On, displays a wry sense of humour, cultural context and an eye for the rules of pop-making. What's more, it's easily the raunchiest music the sometime Pop Idol and about-to-be silver screen actor has unleashed.
Will says the song's rhythm is straight outta Bo Diddley, and be that as it may, but could its similarity to George Michael's Faith be more than a passing coincidence now that the designer stubbled ex-Wham! star has retired from the limelight? One gay icon following another? He gets away with it too, because the music otherwise sounds like nothing Michael's.
And what about that video? Taking Top Gun's homoerotic overtones just that little bit further out of the closet, Will stars in his own mini-movie, delightfully named Hot Gun. In it he gets to play a Tom Cruise-type USAF fighter pilot, show off his buff bod and strut about playing slo-mo volleyball on a beach as dog tags rattle and sweat glistens. "Mr Fabulous don't impress me," he growls. Utterly hilarious.
If George Michael insists on retirement, at least we have someone with a talent and humour to match him. And Will doesn't sport dreadful facial hair either.
Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
Switch It On ... implies Young is willing to chance his arm artistically. It has a walloping Bo Diddley hambone rhythm, distorted vocals, frantic harmonica and no tune whatsoever: if nothing else, it's a brave choice as a single.
UKMix - Source
With a video mimicking 80s flick "Top Gun" and a song resembling a weird combination of George Michael's "Faith" and Jessica Simpson's infamous Nancy Sinatra cover, the original Pop Idol returns. I applaud him for being brave enough not to launch his new album with a ballad as the first single ("Leave Right Now" was the lead on his last album "Friday's Child"), but I don't know. It's a grower I'd say. Still, it'll do well, I've no doubt of that.
Alex MacGregor