Our Love

About

Our Love was written by Robbie Williams and Stephen Duffy. It appeared in 2006 as a B-side to “Sin Sin Sin,” the final single from Intensive Care. Like many of the era’s outtakes, it reflects the pair’s interest in creating layered, reflective pop songs that blurred the line between irony and sincerity.

The song is built around an insistent rhythm and repeating chorus hook, with Williams’s vocal alternating between invitation and challenge. The lyric’s refrain, “Our love is better than their love,” suggests a mix of self-belief and defiance, a theme consistent with Williams’s fascination at the time with fame, belonging and the allure of temptation. Its ambiguous tone leaves room for multiple readings: a love song, a commentary on tribal loyalty, or an ironic take on celebrity exclusivity.

Musically, Our Love combines electronic textures with driving percussion, hinting at the experimental tendencies that would later surface more strongly on Rudebox. Williams’s performance balances confidence with tension, giving the track an undercurrent of unease beneath its pop surface.

Though never performed live, Our Love offers a glimpse of the edgier direction Williams was exploring as the Intensive Care period came to a close, bridging the melodic craft of that album with the sharper, club-influenced sound of his next work.