radiohead finally gave up.

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after years of saying that releasing this song would signal the end of their career against the society of the spectacle they oh so tried to be against while fully being integrated in it, i think after, among other things, basicly insulting the entire global palestinian population as "retarded" for asking them to consider their human rights, and saying that playing "fitter happier" and "electioneering" again would be a stupid idea, even in today's political climate (altho shoving "creep" down our throats once again in every new gig they do is somehow relevant), they realized that they lost all illusion of being a "rebellious", "anti-capitalist", "progressive" band, in the eyes of both their "conscious" consumer audience, and their own self-image. and so they can finally release this song, in all its bad, generic, inbred "rejected oasis demo" glory, without any worry about being "authentic" and "against the rock mythology." they already were, are, and always will be part of it. the only difference now is that they embrace the spectacle, and the mythos of ok computer being an "anti-spectacular" album is finally broken, and revealed to be just the same spectacle it was sold as being against. after all, isnt this how the spectacle always worked?

the psudo-thermin u hear in the chorus is just their version of a flatline beep of their career heading into an apocalypse not even kid a could have predicted. ""the admirable people who personify the system are well known for not being what they seem; they attain greatness by stooping below the reality of the most insignificant individual life, and everyone knows it."