From No Logo to Rag & Bone… Thom giving up on his principles?

On the recently released DVD of a german concert Thom introduced “Paranoid Android” by saying… and I qoute…
“This is for people who wear Gucci and Pranada and don’t see anything wrong with that at all…”
I thought he was degrading those fashionista snobs. Guess I was wrong.

“Kicking, screaming, gucci, rag and bones wearing little piggy!”

II B.S., excellent choice.

If ever album is a reaction to the previous album I’d hate to imagine what the next one is gonna sound like…..

It’s pretty funny how people treat anything that has anything to do with fashion as the devils work. Why don’t you quiet down.

Why put down THIS kind of fashion? Because it is completly vane and elitist.
Thats why.

Hey. Youe Mom! Why don’t you fuck off and go try on your Parada Pant Suit. You fag.

Oh Scott you seem to always have something Negative to say about the band guess I’m just sick of your opinions.

Oh and Atwaht do you really have to go to the “fag” comment? I thought it was Oasis fans that were the “fag” haters.

Go cry in the dark and dream of “Pablo Honey” little girls.

becouse this is funn and he’s not a vegan, Jesus Christ PEOPLE!

If I get old
I will not give in
But if I do
Remind me of this

Remind me that
Once I was free
Once I was cool
Once I was me

Get a grip people. Unless you knit and crochet your own clothes, everything you wear is designed by somebody.

Well I guess we should knock him out and smash up his brains now. Right Hedges? lol

For some reason many Radiohead fans take lyrics like “Gucci little piggy” at face value, like a code to live by. You trust that narrator? Thom laughs, you see.

no, but he found his own paranoid reaction to her- and to what that woman symbolized for him- equally scary as the experience, and that is why PA exists as it does. Most of us are familiar with Palahniuk and/or the Fight Club movie. PA’s their Tyler Durden song. It’s the moment when the world’s craziness drives the narrator crazy. It’s a satire of a character for feeling he’s above all that bullshit, and lashing out, just as much or more as it’s an attack on the bullshit itself. You could equally call it their Cobain song, or their early 90s Thom Yorke song, or whatever. Of course we, and the songwriter, identify with the character. But, if you think that’s all, you fail to understand Thom’s songwriting. It’s not the kind of joke that is actually funny, but more the kind that would be funny, if it wasn’t so deadly serious. The narrator’s a self-styled prophet +terrorist. The point in Thom’s lyrics there, is clearly not that we should all agree with every word. Cathartic, yes, constructive, no. Ok, it’s a far cry from realizing that being like PA’s narrator is useless, to beginning to be able to justify a fashion show where Thom re-enacts the plot of No Logo on favourites from his mostly uncommercial iPod playlists, but “kicking squealing Gucci little piggy” = fuck all to do with it, anyway. If there is a problem here, it’s not that Thom, who’s always liked fashion, still seems to like it. It would be the way he’s using others’ music here (in a way he has said did his own head when his music was used as a product seller) but then again he may have checked with the artists and they were happy to have their stuff get this attention. But can you get it through your head: Thm hs alws lkd fshn. Mb Thms frnds r sffrng n da fncl crss n sma dem r rtsts r dsignrs 4 rag n bone? mb!

You were wrong so you drowned, bitch.

you blog is so good