Domingo 5 Mar 2006, 0h:07

alright, so i just got through watching several Radiohead music videos, and i thought about what each of them really meant. here's a lovely list of thoughts for you

Paranoid Android:

i read in Rolling Stone that this song was written about "the dullest fucking people on earth. this really prevails during the video, as people go through their lives, as weird as they are, and continue to be stuck in their own little boring world, as if nothing is even happening around them. i especially like the gratuitous animated nudity throughout the entire video, and how none of the characters even gave a second thought to this. look at the world around you, and how interesting and different it really is.

Street Spirit:

this video and song i'm still a little clueless. i'm guessing by the title it has something to do with pointless celebration, or something like that. i really have no idea.

No Surprises:

i think this one's fairly simple to see, especially after seeing the video. in the lyrics are a message of uncertainty and doubt, swallowed by depressing topics, taken very lightly. This is a song with a satirical view of blind optimism, but a nice inspirational message and hopeful backbone. the video depicts a shot of Thom Yorke's head being drowned in a giant fishbowl-esque helmet contraption. the water line slowly raises from the bottom to the top of the helmet, but eventually the water recedes and he goes on again as if nothing happened before. inspirational.

Just:

one of my favorite videos and songs of radiohead, this song is fairly cryptic and complex. this was not on accident, because i'm sure the point of this video was to leave people wondering. while a man is walking down the street, he suddenly stops dead in his tracks and falls to the ground. another man trips over this man's body and questions why he is lying on the ground, but the man will not tell him. finally, after a crowd of about 50 people have surrounded this man, he tells the crowd why he is lying on the ground. the camera pans the crowd, only to show that all of these people are also lying on the ground, also. an obvious conclusion that one could draw is that the more people know, the more there is to fear, or something of that nature (a.k.a. ignorance is bliss). this is what i believe this video is about, but another theory one could draw is that what you don't know can't hurt you, and people should go through their lives normally, and not in fear.

that's all i got to watch tonight, but leave some comments about alternative theories. thanks!