I think the song is representative of an attitude rather than an idea. The guy lying down is an anchor, who drags other people down to his level. He's egomaniacal, narcissistic and will do anything to create drama and attention for himself and believes his words have the power to overwhelm people.
He says "A couple of years from now, Radiohead is going to make a freakin' techno record and not pick their guitars back up again for almost a decade."
Reminds me of Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus wants to know what the seer knows and the seer doesn't want to tell him. When the seer tells Oedipus the truth he can't take it, just like the people in the video.
He just figured out what it's all about, why Nietzsche ended up drooling in an armchair. I've been lying here for six months now, the phone unplugged, when I can no longer afford to pay the rent I'll just lie down on the street, at that point they'll probably ask me what's wrong, diagnose me with mental disorder then drug or shock me back to work.
No tendrás mi compasión Colgando del piso 15 Has cambiado la cerradura tres veces El aún llega tambaleándose a través de la puerta Un día te tendré Y te enseñare como llegar al mismísimo infierno
Te lo haces a ti mismo, tu lo haces Y eso es lo que realmente duele Lo que te haces a ti mismo Solo tu y nadie más Te lo haces a ti mismo Te lo haces a ti mismo…
Te lo haces a ti mismo, tu lo haces Y eso es lo que realmente duele Lo que te haces a ti mismo Solo tu y nadie más Te lo haces a ti mismo Te lo haces a ti mismo
No puedes quitarte el hedor Ha estado pegado por todas partes durante días Llegó como un cometa Te absorbió pero no a tus amigos Un día te tendrá Y te enseñará como ser una vaca sagrada
i hate it when pretentious indie freaks say he says e=mc squared ... thats bollocks. why would saying that cause such a reaction? they just say that because of their limited physics knowledge and because they're bloody pretentious. well anyway. good band
i hate it when pretentious indie freaks say he says e=mc squared ... WHY WOULD HE CARE ABOUT THAT!?!?!? they just say that because of their limited physics knowledge and because they're bloody pretentious. well anyway. good band
I think this music video tells the story of one man who just realized the cruelty of human nature to one's self and others, and this realization manifest itself through paralyzing guilt. The worst things we as people do, we do to ourselves and each other. We are not likely to change though, as "One day I'll get to you, and teach you how to get to purest hell." we constantly cripple ourselves and others, without any awareness of it.
i know what he said. he said "i actually don't have reason, i'm a character in a music video and so are you. everything we know is meant to tell a story, along with the music. the story is about how we as human beings seek answers to all questions. even the ones we can't possibly answer. so we waste our lives, and the question become the answer."
I believe it just represents how people seek out answers, and when they find them they wish they hadn't. Hence "You do it to yourself". The irony is that the video makes people wonder what the guy says, in spite of it being apparently a terrible thing. Ignorance is bliss i guess.
@tommart123 i think ignorance is bliss.. but if you know that we shud live with facts everyday, we can also be blissful without not knowing watever we can, by just living with those facts and not thinking that they shud depress you.. thery're just facts of life, science, that we can opt to know or not but it doesn't really stop us from being happy humans.. ll we think of is hurt nowadays..
@tommart123 oh crap you werent supposed to make that realization, you were SUPPOSED TO STAY IGNORANT!! (everyone who reads comment falls to the ground)
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wow that was fucking stupid! What happened to the 70's when you listened to music for a good time not to listen to music to get some greater meaning out of life that does get really fucking boring dude. If you havent noticed you're all a bunch of retards musics to calm you down and give you the power of an outlet of expression not to make you build shit upp and get more angry fuck tht shit.
"What happened to the 70's when you listened to music for a good time not to listen to music to get some greater meaning out of life..."
The 70s that gave us most of the early Pink Floyd albums? Really? Oh yea uma guma and Rush 2112 there's some good time party music there. Sounds like you missed the better half of that decade. Go listen to crunk if you want good time music.
you guys are beating yourselves up - that's what it's about. the fact that you're arguing about something that doesn't matter. you're doing it to yourselves. The reactions to this video are amazing and exactly what they wanted to get out of it. the truely hilarious part about it is - you guys still don't get it and you're still doing it to yourselves. People are so gullible and stupid - waiting for some great mystery. It's not happening kids.
I Know the answer, but i don't know what he's saying, but exactly this is the answer.
everyone has his own thoughts about what he's saying.
If there is a ending, there wouldn't be so much room for own ideas. it's like a book with a missing page, it's only something special, because no one knows what's on the page.
I am going to spread the message everywhere now that I am 95% it is correct.
He is Einstein, he says e=mc squared. I saw this posted somewhere and my lipreading friend also confirmed it upon his first viewing of the video. Einstein has always regretted his discovering e=mc^2 as it lead to the development of the devastating atom bomb.
All that condensed into a song... Radiohead is genius!!! This song is so beast
Onlytilthen: "The man on the street is Jesus. In fact, the man who trips over him even says, "Jesus, are you okay?"
Radiohead, watching from above and unseeable from the street, represents God. What do you think? "
If not God, then angels, or perhaps just dead souls in heaven. You may be right, though. I'm not a lip-reader, though, the best I could see was "I've seen the white plane."
@sobeita I never would have thought of it that way. Even if the artist did intend for that to be interpreted from it, I'm still impressed. If they did, really good work sobeita.
i think this video is about when people dont mind there business and get sucked in to other peoples problems or secrets...but thats just my interpretation...it all comes back to one thing...a opinion
the man who laid down had pestered someone else about doing the same thing and it caused him to be this way.. maybe all of the people who laid down will now be pestered by others..
but i honestly don't think that there's a real set-out meaning behind it.. they want you to think for yourself, very good video
If there's nothing they particularly thought about when coming up with this (i.e. different possible meanings etc.), then there's hardly anything to "think for yourself" either.
If you listen to the lyrics and actually watch the video you'd understand it. Its talking about "Doing it to yourself" and the man is telling them over and over again that he doesn't want to tell them. But they keep insisting it and eventually they end up like him, because they did it to themselves.
Everybody is ove complicating this ,the meaning is very simple. It doesn't matter what he said because there is no set of words in the english dictionary that will make us do the. The meaning of the video is the " You do it to yourself" part". The crowd around the guy brought the depression ( or whatever makes them lie down) to themeselves by not minding their own business. It's that simple. It's not the guys fault.
I think that in itself represents how certain lead singers are usually these type of people, and only from divulging in a manner similar to the guy does at the end can they gain acceptance. But in doing so, it can merely creates a new trend instead of inspiring individuality. In that way whilst originally being sarcastic about the main character, it starts to apply to general society, and how they'll perpetuate the cycle where theyre led by disturbed personalities
And basically the person involved is said to "do it themselves" just by attracting this sort of attention. Because they are closed up and unwilling to reveal this information. Essentially I think this video flips the usual end result and ends with the person persecuted being able to tell society exactly why they are the way they are, making complete sense, and society being sheep accepting it for themselves.
It's a very sarcastic song though man. And just because it's impossible to tell what he said it doesn't make it have any less meaning, or mean it's not worth trying to know.
I think it's sarcastic. There are people out there that symbolically lie on the sidewalk. They have their own reasons for lying on the sidewalk and although there may be negative effects visible (like blocking the path) they have their own reasons for lying on the sidewalk. Society thinks it purely detrimental/is frustrated at not knowing why, and basically acts how the crowd acted towards the guy.
I dont want to sound pretentious in writing this but Tom Yorke has mentioned in interview that hes suffered from clinical depression. I too have previously been diagnosed with clinical depression and in that state of hate, bitterness and pessimism that depression brings i always imagined that if people saw things the way i did they would drop down where they were standing. I think what the video is conveying this inexpressible feeling of utterly diabilitating depression. excuse the grammar.
If they saw things the way depressed people do, they WOULD drop where they stand...I think SOME humans get depressed because they naturally view things from a perspective that reveals this world in a more accurate light than most would suppose.
nobody knows what the video says.... cant you see that everyone is saying "what did he said?, did he said this? that?"? but its obiusly that its all made for U people to see the video again n again
no, that's what idiots do. it's purposefully ironic that people still want to find out what the guy said, even though it made all the people around him lie still on the ground.
there's nothing to figure out! he purposefully made it impossible to lipread, because he didn't even say words. he could have said blah blah blah for all it's worth, not even radiohead know or care what he said.
I'm a massive radiohead fan, and I agree with this guy. It's an unsolvable riddle. There's nothing more to know. Kurt Cobain said that his songs, despite how much they influence people, had no meaning, and that the only meaning that one could take from a song of his was your own opinion.
Artists do it all the time. There is no right or wrong answer to this video, but its made everyone think, thus, the video has succeeded in its aims!
Hey, I'm not making any particular claim about this video (I don't know enough about it), but in general:
wanting to make people think + not having put any thought into it yourself = making up random worthless stuff so people start scratching their head... over nothing.
If that's your image of the "meaning of art" to you, then hey, fine.
Then I wouldn't throw around with statements like "intention of ALL art" - not everyone agrees what constitutes "art", and for some, creating a complex work with lots of THOUGHT and mastery put into it is art...
while some cheap movie with lots of unresolved mysteries and no particularly brilliant thought behind it (just to make people discuss on forums) is not.
You are putting words in my mouth. I never said "all art is randomness put together" did I?
I said: "Practically all art is made to make people think."
All though doing it in a different WAY, this video has made people think. I haven't said anything particularly outlandish and certainly haven't said anything incorrect. Stop being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
Of your response and the comment I was responding to, that is.
Hey, I don't argue it's interesting to study who some random stuff (without intended meaning, i.e. no particular reason for the creators to have made the things the way they are = random) can still produce reasonable discussions and interpretations, but does the creator deserve undisputed credit for that? Nope.
It seems to me that you don't like the fact an almost effortless method has resulted in plenty of people pondering the videos meaning.
I agree it might be cheap but the results of this effortless video are the same as many other videos or artworks that may or may not have taken vast amounts of thought and mastery.
If your target audience starts talking about your piece regardless of the methods, you've succeeded in my opinion.
Again, I still don't know how it was the case with this particular video, but again - if an "artist" throws out some random picture with no particularly elaborated thought behind it, and people start talking, you'll need to ask yourself WHAT they are... talking about.
They're trying to figure out the meaning of the video, right? Well, if there IS no meaning, and all the elements dicussed are chosen randomly and thoughtlessly - please tell me how that's supposed to be a compliment for the ...
.creators, when the people they "got to talk about" are basically talking over nothing?
I mean, hey, if "getting people to talk" is the supreme goal of making art or entertainment, then walking naked on the street is also gonna "make people talk". Will their talking be related to, or revolve around the "intellectual complexity" of my "product", still?
An artist at...I forget the university, filmed two friends have sex this week. Read it in the metro.
This university graduates stunt got him coverage in national newspapers. It was a meaningless, cheap piece of "art" but the amount of publicity and discussion he generated was his precise aim.
Don't shoot the messenger, if you don't agree with it take it up with an artist. But I'm stating fact, its what artists do. They're either trying to put across a message or prompt a reaction
'look, it's radiohead up at that window! let's freak 'em out by laying on the ground!'
fsdfsdfdsfdsfable 1 week ago
bad quality
Heron001ful 3 months ago
I do not understand the last part could someone please explain?
elpapadeloshijos 5 months ago
I think the song is representative of an attitude rather than an idea. The guy lying down is an anchor, who drags other people down to his level. He's egomaniacal, narcissistic and will do anything to create drama and attention for himself and believes his words have the power to overwhelm people.
Frejia 5 months ago
@Frejia If that was the case, why did he have to be forced into telling them?
SeanHMc 1 month ago
curiosity kills...
kyoshintama 5 months ago
he said: I opened a Facebook profile :)
MrSandinista1000 5 months ago
ignorance is bliss and people are shit
unclesamfatg 6 months ago
do not disturb the public dialogue
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He says "A couple of years from now, Radiohead is going to make a freakin' techno record and not pick their guitars back up again for almost a decade."
DrynSarcastic360 6 months ago
He was indignated as in Madrid, May 15...
Andresanz 6 months ago
This video seems to have the same theme (more or less) as Fitter, Happier.............especially at the end.
lurch321 8 months ago
He said lay down or Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black are doing a duo
manlikeswitcher 8 months ago 3
So he was planking, right?
platypusboy 8 months ago 6
You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts.
<3
LostLolli1 9 months ago 2
@LostLolli1 story of my life so far
ENTERMYDEATHMASK 6 months ago
I love how we've all fell into the trap of this video and constantly ask what he's saying, the irony...
McKieOfficial 9 months ago
He said Rebecca Black is coming out with an album...
GCMPJLRMYLIFE 10 months ago 4
Reminds me of Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus wants to know what the seer knows and the seer doesn't want to tell him. When the seer tells Oedipus the truth he can't take it, just like the people in the video.
TheFuzzyBlanket 10 months ago
just like my favourite monty python sketch! the funniest joke in the world.
nerdyharry 11 months ago 2
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maryjaneghost 1 year ago
He said: "Up there, in this building, is Radiohead playing Just"
Darkprospekt 1 year ago 13
Life has no meaning, but said in really convincing words that I can't imagine. That's a sufficient reason to lie on the ground and stop living.
TryAgainProductions 1 year ago
An amazing song.
TheMokikanac 1 year ago
WHAT DID HE SAYYYY WAAAHHHH!!!! THIS IS FRUSTRATING!!!! >.< TELL MEEE ATLEAST GUESS :P
funforeverlidz 1 year ago
@funforeverlidz He said "just" in 24 diferent languages
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dingetje 1 year ago
I think its everybody expect too damn much... way too damn much
if only we could enjoy eachother company
and our own company
just give me sum good music to fix this shit we call existance .. and fk vevo!
zensunraw 1 year ago
Should have the main theme for The Matrix.
Vosloff 1 year ago
FUCK VEVOOOOOO!!!!!
hahaha
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So what's the big deal ??
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He just figured out what it's all about, why Nietzsche ended up drooling in an armchair. I've been lying here for six months now, the phone unplugged, when I can no longer afford to pay the rent I'll just lie down on the street, at that point they'll probably ask me what's wrong, diagnose me with mental disorder then drug or shock me back to work.
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No tendrás mi compasión Colgando del piso 15 Has cambiado la cerradura tres veces El aún llega tambaleándose a través de la puerta Un día te tendré Y te enseñare como llegar al mismísimo infierno
Te lo haces a ti mismo, tu lo haces Y eso es lo que realmente duele Lo que te haces a ti mismo Solo tu y nadie más Te lo haces a ti mismo Te lo haces a ti mismo…
Draculinuis 1 year ago
Te lo haces a ti mismo, tu lo haces Y eso es lo que realmente duele Lo que te haces a ti mismo Solo tu y nadie más Te lo haces a ti mismo Te lo haces a ti mismo
Draculinuis 1 year ago
No puedes quitarte el hedor Ha estado pegado por todas partes durante días Llegó como un cometa Te absorbió pero no a tus amigos Un día te tendrá Y te enseñará como ser una vaca sagrada
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octatonic
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anybody know to read the lips? xD i want to know wath he say XD
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tomheryai 1 year ago
i hate it when pretentious indie freaks say he says e=mc squared ... thats bollocks. why would saying that cause such a reaction? they just say that because of their limited physics knowledge and because they're bloody pretentious. well anyway. good band
liam69love 1 year ago
@liam69love i bet youre brittish. sorry i know that has nothing to do wuith annything. but idk, u sound hott
MIKlovesthepies911 1 year ago
@MIKlovesthepies911 pff hahaha xD yeah... thanks....
liam69love 1 year ago
i hate it when pretentious indie freaks say he says e=mc squared ... WHY WOULD HE CARE ABOUT THAT!?!?!? they just say that because of their limited physics knowledge and because they're bloody pretentious. well anyway. good band
liam69love 1 year ago
Darn, I thought this would have sound all the way through like it did at the start I was like 'I'm finally gonna know what he says'
qpwo6 1 year ago
Everyone's wearing a suit! No stoners or hippies or off-duty baristas. Creepy.
No wonder they can't cheer up Will Ferrell.
HebaruSan 1 year ago
love how there was a serious comment and funny comment in the highest rated comments!! :D haha
<3 the bends
xXxDaNgErMouSE93xXx 1 year ago 3
he told them the sence of life.. this is the reason we cannot find it out or we'll just be all lying and waiting for the death ..
YuLiLuh 1 year ago
I do like the way you cant read the subtitles in this vid!
099749 1 year ago
This is one a kick ass song. All of Radioheads music is timeless. Ok Computer has not aged as far as the sound goes.
PearlJammer07 1 year ago 2
He said "in 5 years, Radiohead will release Kid A"
MIKEDURSTEWITZ 1 year ago 5
die hard 90's radiohead junkie!
Drugstorecowgirlca 1 year ago
i can read lips!
he said "when u listen to the ground, u can hear a bunch of radiohead songs!"
FranzyXL 1 year ago
thom yokre is a fucking genius <3333333
maicygirlie 1 year ago
I can't understand Radiohead.
And I like that.
JBiscaia33 1 year ago 7
he said Irak had no weapons of mass destruction
mozvip 1 year ago 32
@mozvip Iraq
sandj777 1 year ago
@mozvip funny comment, learn to spell dipshit.
fletchboneflash 1 year ago
@mozvip No he didn't. He said Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
Almost thought you were American when I read this, lol.
SeanHMc 1 month ago
ITS JUST SO FUCKING PERFECT !!
Adrenaline222 1 year ago
Great video!But i have no recollection of MTV ever playing this in the mid 90's.I would have remembered it.
johnbrown53160 1 year ago
I think this music video tells the story of one man who just realized the cruelty of human nature to one's self and others, and this realization manifest itself through paralyzing guilt. The worst things we as people do, we do to ourselves and each other. We are not likely to change though, as "One day I'll get to you, and teach you how to get to purest hell." we constantly cripple ourselves and others, without any awareness of it.
Jozeppi1 1 year ago
It's not Vevo! This feels like that part in Children of Men where everyone hears the baby cries, instilling hope in mankind.
brandonatau 1 year ago
radiohead!!!
julianadashk 1 year ago
just.. awesome song
KarmaPoliceman158 1 year ago
i know what he said. he said "i actually don't have reason, i'm a character in a music video and so are you. everything we know is meant to tell a story, along with the music. the story is about how we as human beings seek answers to all questions. even the ones we can't possibly answer. so we waste our lives, and the question become the answer."
bigbookofnothing 1 year ago 5
i dont get it, why was he lying on the pavement?
sdhjtge 2 years ago
I believe it just represents how people seek out answers, and when they find them they wish they hadn't. Hence "You do it to yourself". The irony is that the video makes people wonder what the guy says, in spite of it being apparently a terrible thing. Ignorance is bliss i guess.
tommart123 2 years ago 74
@tommart123 ... Comparto tu teoría a pleno
adriancordoba1 1 year ago
@tommart123 i think ignorance is bliss.. but if you know that we shud live with facts everyday, we can also be blissful without not knowing watever we can, by just living with those facts and not thinking that they shud depress you.. thery're just facts of life, science, that we can opt to know or not but it doesn't really stop us from being happy humans.. ll we think of is hurt nowadays..
enzoposadas 1 year ago
@tommart123
Actually its about getting head screwed by the people in charge, and destroying yourself fighting against it!
099749 1 year ago
@tommart123 good idea mate :D least pretentios answer to this video. very clever ;)
liam69love 1 year ago
@tommart123 Copied word for word for facebook! Exactly what I was thinking but you nailed it!
carloslfc1892 1 year ago
@tommart123 Someone once told me ignorance wasn't bliss, how wrong they were!!!
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MsWhitestripes100 10 months ago
@tommart123 yeah whatever dude
MsWhitestripes100 10 months ago
@MsWhitestripes100 whatever to you sir.
tommart123 10 months ago
@tommart123 oh crap you werent supposed to make that realization, you were SUPPOSED TO STAY IGNORANT!! (everyone who reads comment falls to the ground)
jacketnipple 7 months ago
@tommart123
Boss tune lid, boss tune!!!!
bobbybobby19801980 6 months ago
what are they saying !?
cruzlui 2 years ago
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wow that was fucking stupid! What happened to the 70's when you listened to music for a good time not to listen to music to get some greater meaning out of life that does get really fucking boring dude. If you havent noticed you're all a bunch of retards musics to calm you down and give you the power of an outlet of expression not to make you build shit upp and get more angry fuck tht shit.
90zosoman09 2 years ago
"What happened to the 70's when you listened to music for a good time not to listen to music to get some greater meaning out of life..."
The 70s that gave us most of the early Pink Floyd albums? Really? Oh yea uma guma and Rush 2112 there's some good time party music there. Sounds like you missed the better half of that decade. Go listen to crunk if you want good time music.
sinistar99 2 years ago
Ya fuck music that calms you and has a meaning! I agree music shouldn't evolve it should all be the same as it was in the 70's.
tommyboy297 2 years ago
you guys are beating yourselves up - that's what it's about. the fact that you're arguing about something that doesn't matter. you're doing it to yourselves. The reactions to this video are amazing and exactly what they wanted to get out of it. the truely hilarious part about it is - you guys still don't get it and you're still doing it to yourselves. People are so gullible and stupid - waiting for some great mystery. It's not happening kids.
PoeticallyIlliterate 2 years ago 5
@PoeticallyIlliterate That's what i think too! amazing!!!
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PoeticallyIlliterate 2 years ago
It doesn't mean anything in itself - like life, you have to give it meaning yourself - existential angst, baby!
kettlezone 2 years ago 4
I Know the answer, but i don't know what he's saying, but exactly this is the answer.
everyone has his own thoughts about what he's saying.
If there is a ending, there wouldn't be so much room for own ideas. it's like a book with a missing page, it's only something special, because no one knows what's on the page.
think about it !!!
theoneandonlyhut 2 years ago
I am going to spread the message everywhere now that I am 95% it is correct.
He is Einstein, he says e=mc squared. I saw this posted somewhere and my lipreading friend also confirmed it upon his first viewing of the video. Einstein has always regretted his discovering e=mc^2 as it lead to the development of the devastating atom bomb.
All that condensed into a song... Radiohead is genius!!! This song is so beast
mortred009 2 years ago
Raidohead videos are always tough
MrLesWhite 2 years ago
"I've seen the white plane"?
sobeita 2 years ago
Well...Weird video. And maybe a little scary, but it's geniously. **
Gastly333 2 years ago
hot
orgyfanx 2 years ago
Here is my interpretation:
The man on the street is Jesus. In fact, the man who trips over him even says, "Jesus, are you okay?"
Radiohead, watching from above and unseeable from the street, represents God. What do you think?
onlytilthen 2 years ago
Onlytilthen: "The man on the street is Jesus. In fact, the man who trips over him even says, "Jesus, are you okay?"
Radiohead, watching from above and unseeable from the street, represents God. What do you think? "
If not God, then angels, or perhaps just dead souls in heaven. You may be right, though. I'm not a lip-reader, though, the best I could see was "I've seen the white plane."
sobeita 2 years ago
@sobeita I never would have thought of it that way. Even if the artist did intend for that to be interpreted from it, I'm still impressed. If they did, really good work sobeita.
Jozeppi1 1 year ago
What's he telling them? Wait....forget it. I don't wanna know.
Boqiro 2 years ago
He tells everone the meaning of life and states how our lives are insignificant and the rat race we live in is pointless.
ten4roger 2 years ago
TLDR - pointless, boring conversations contribute to nothing.
Video-related comment, I enjoyed this song.
smpowis 2 years ago
hi? test?
twooffour 2 years ago
great vid really deep
knechtele 2 years ago
You need to fix your video, the sound cuts off about a minute from the end.
Trafficman 2 years ago
yeahh, Weird but i like it xD
pachocomlen 2 years ago
lol who just trips over something like that
Rorylovesberries 2 years ago 3
Weird.. But hot too
lauriginale95 2 years ago 2
I think he said, we belong to The Matrix...
tronker76 2 years ago 8
He doesn't like what society has become. But it's a dramatic way of saying it. But that's Radiohead for you. Still beautiful.
archangelsweetie 2 years ago 5
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Back when Radiohead was awesome. God Bless the GUITAR driven Radiohead years. Sod the rest, post OK Computer. Amen.
123torrent 2 years ago
Why is he lying there?
ballyheane4 2 years ago
^^; im not sure you got the point of the vid, lol..
naamhier 2 years ago
wats the name of the other band which has a smiler intro
brrskater243 2 years ago
i think it shows mans curiosity and at the end of the day curiosity kills the cat, and when we find the answer its not wat we expect
simples
abcdefgpissoff 2 years ago 5
simon says lay on the concrete
abcdefgpissoff 2 years ago 28
@abcdefgpissoff
Cant agree that's what they want as much apathy as possible: Sure Radiohead didn't write this song to assist, if anything its a protest song!
Just- like 'darkside of the moon' by pink floyd....
"And if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'llsee you on the dark side of the moon!"
099749 1 year ago
go for his wallet...bet he's get up then
Luxfare666 2 years ago 2
probably he's lying down due to severe ball ache
RizzoTheRat121 2 years ago
i think this video is about when people dont mind there business and get sucked in to other peoples problems or secrets...but thats just my interpretation...it all comes back to one thing...a opinion
MaTtmAn11276 2 years ago
but is that what the song is about too
andyxkaragiozi 2 years ago
he starts singing soulja boy and he kills them the same way soulja boy killed hip hop.
brownteal21 2 years ago
maybe it's like a cycle:
the man who laid down had pestered someone else about doing the same thing and it caused him to be this way.. maybe all of the people who laid down will now be pestered by others..
but i honestly don't think that there's a real set-out meaning behind it.. they want you to think for yourself, very good video
Gadzooker 2 years ago
i think they dont want people to be forced to give account about everything they do.
and the people getting mad are "doing it to themself"
Yavesguitar 2 years ago 5
If there's nothing they particularly thought about when coming up with this (i.e. different possible meanings etc.), then there's hardly anything to "think for yourself" either.
twooffour 2 years ago
whoever produces this video is a fucking genius....
sugizo88 2 years ago 5
If you listen to the lyrics and actually watch the video you'd understand it. Its talking about "Doing it to yourself" and the man is telling them over and over again that he doesn't want to tell them. But they keep insisting it and eventually they end up like him, because they did it to themselves.
Simple d(O_o)b
Vulcande 2 years ago 5
he says 'up is the new down' hence the album on their latest cd up is the new down... he said it in an interview.
Myersh 2 years ago
maybe he says : just
monaghanpunk 2 years ago
he says "i'll tell you all why i'm laying down here if you all lay down for 1 minute"
benettim 2 years ago 3
So he says in the end..... " I saved 15% on my car insurance by switching over to Geico"
Or maybe he's jesus...
scytheslash 2 years ago 6
yeah, all he says is "i'll tell you why i'm lying here."
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There shit the only two good songs are just and video killed the radio star
XxMwahxXJade4russ 3 years ago
video killed the radio star was the buggles not radiohead
aeroplane95 2 years ago 2
you literally should never listen to music again.
but don't worry, that means you can still listen to Disney bands.
maaingan 2 years ago 4
i dont understand that video!
its confuse..
i want to know why he was lying?? haha!
ValeListingWay 3 years ago
that's the point of the song and the video. you do it to yourself. plus now you wanna know just like the people in the video did.
2dtesseract 3 years ago 2
It's easy. Its a city of racists who found out that 10 years from then, the USA would have a black president! :)
Hehe, i jest but looking at the video is kind of funny when you look at it like that.
BVargas78 3 years ago
down is the new up
clairescott87 3 years ago
you do it to yourself, u do, and thats what really hurts!
sarkin1981 3 years ago 2
i know what the guy said...., but icant tell you because im lying on the paviment on this moment.
firstjedi 3 years ago 7
Everybody is ove complicating this ,the meaning is very simple. It doesn't matter what he said because there is no set of words in the english dictionary that will make us do the. The meaning of the video is the " You do it to yourself" part". The crowd around the guy brought the depression ( or whatever makes them lie down) to themeselves by not minding their own business. It's that simple. It's not the guys fault.
akgj 3 years ago
the first time i watched this video i was dying to know why he was lying on the ground lol
ohhrichie 3 years ago
I thought the Policeman had just beaten him up for being a black haired bastard.....
toiletduck23 3 years ago
Anyone know how to get that clean guitar sound at 3:00?
Theblob516 3 years ago
dont use any effects. hence the clean sound.
Anarchrist01 3 years ago
I wasn't asking effects-wise. I meant more about the setup
Theblob516 3 years ago
I think that in itself represents how certain lead singers are usually these type of people, and only from divulging in a manner similar to the guy does at the end can they gain acceptance. But in doing so, it can merely creates a new trend instead of inspiring individuality. In that way whilst originally being sarcastic about the main character, it starts to apply to general society, and how they'll perpetuate the cycle where theyre led by disturbed personalities
XArcane 3 years ago
And basically the person involved is said to "do it themselves" just by attracting this sort of attention. Because they are closed up and unwilling to reveal this information. Essentially I think this video flips the usual end result and ends with the person persecuted being able to tell society exactly why they are the way they are, making complete sense, and society being sheep accepting it for themselves.
XArcane 3 years ago
don't bend the lyrics to support your theory...
it's 'you do it to yourself'
petef15 3 years ago
It's a very sarcastic song though man. And just because it's impossible to tell what he said it doesn't make it have any less meaning, or mean it's not worth trying to know.
XArcane 3 years ago
I think it's sarcastic. There are people out there that symbolically lie on the sidewalk. They have their own reasons for lying on the sidewalk and although there may be negative effects visible (like blocking the path) they have their own reasons for lying on the sidewalk. Society thinks it purely detrimental/is frustrated at not knowing why, and basically acts how the crowd acted towards the guy.
XArcane 3 years ago
I dont want to sound pretentious in writing this but Tom Yorke has mentioned in interview that hes suffered from clinical depression. I too have previously been diagnosed with clinical depression and in that state of hate, bitterness and pessimism that depression brings i always imagined that if people saw things the way i did they would drop down where they were standing. I think what the video is conveying this inexpressible feeling of utterly diabilitating depression. excuse the grammar.
Anarchrist01 3 years ago
If they saw things the way depressed people do, they WOULD drop where they stand...I think SOME humans get depressed because they naturally view things from a perspective that reveals this world in a more accurate light than most would suppose.
dmobxxx 3 years ago
I'd have to agree. even people who have a long-term battle with depression cant help but curl up at stare at the void.
impcirca1988 3 years ago
I get it... spot on!
051500 2 years ago
please tell me i cant figured it out!!!
Dragongirl4040 3 years ago
nobody knows what the video says.... cant you see that everyone is saying "what did he said?, did he said this? that?"? but its obiusly that its all made for U people to see the video again n again
Serpicometalero1 3 years ago
I think you missed the point.
impcirca1988 3 years ago
no, that's what idiots do. it's purposefully ironic that people still want to find out what the guy said, even though it made all the people around him lie still on the ground.
petef15 3 years ago
not going to lie, I got "i drink a red banana"
SleepyMaurice 3 years ago 5
at exactly 4:10 i think he says "...way im lying" im guessing. this time, im not off. maybe a little but not alot O_<
LosIlluminados 3 years ago
"you do it to yourself" is my guess. seems pretty straight forward no?
LosIlluminados 3 years ago
but what i dont get, why can't people who know how to leap read figure it out? :)
AshleyKathy 3 years ago
there's nothing to figure out! he purposefully made it impossible to lipread, because he didn't even say words. he could have said blah blah blah for all it's worth, not even radiohead know or care what he said.
petef15 3 years ago
I'm a massive radiohead fan, and I agree with this guy. It's an unsolvable riddle. There's nothing more to know. Kurt Cobain said that his songs, despite how much they influence people, had no meaning, and that the only meaning that one could take from a song of his was your own opinion.
Artists do it all the time. There is no right or wrong answer to this video, but its made everyone think, thus, the video has succeeded in its aims!
drummerdickens 3 years ago 6
If you just make up random stuff and people start discussing it, I'm afraid you haven't really "succeeded" at anything.
twooffour 2 years ago
...unless your intention was to make people think.
Which is practically the intention of ALL art...I would like to discuss what you mean but I genuinely think you're very wrong.
drummerdickens 2 years ago
Hey, I'm not making any particular claim about this video (I don't know enough about it), but in general:
wanting to make people think + not having put any thought into it yourself = making up random worthless stuff so people start scratching their head... over nothing.
If that's your image of the "meaning of art" to you, then hey, fine.
twooffour 2 years ago
Then I wouldn't throw around with statements like "intention of ALL art" - not everyone agrees what constitutes "art", and for some, creating a complex work with lots of THOUGHT and mastery put into it is art...
while some cheap movie with lots of unresolved mysteries and no particularly brilliant thought behind it (just to make people discuss on forums) is not.
twooffour 2 years ago
You are putting words in my mouth. I never said "all art is randomness put together" did I?
I said: "Practically all art is made to make people think."
All though doing it in a different WAY, this video has made people think. I haven't said anything particularly outlandish and certainly haven't said anything incorrect. Stop being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
drummerdickens 2 years ago
Me:
"IF(!!!) you just make up random stuff and people start discussing it, I'm afraid you haven't really "succeeded" at anything."
You:
"...unless your intention was to make people think.
Which is practically the intention of ALL art"
If you can't follow the basic logical implication of your response in that context, then please stop responding.
I also never said you said that "ALL art is randomness", so I guess stop with the strawmen yourself.
twooffour 2 years ago
Of your response and the comment I was responding to, that is.
Hey, I don't argue it's interesting to study who some random stuff (without intended meaning, i.e. no particular reason for the creators to have made the things the way they are = random) can still produce reasonable discussions and interpretations, but does the creator deserve undisputed credit for that? Nope.
Again, nothing particularly about this video.
twooffour 2 years ago
It seems to me that you don't like the fact an almost effortless method has resulted in plenty of people pondering the videos meaning.
I agree it might be cheap but the results of this effortless video are the same as many other videos or artworks that may or may not have taken vast amounts of thought and mastery.
If your target audience starts talking about your piece regardless of the methods, you've succeeded in my opinion.
drummerdickens 2 years ago
Again, I still don't know how it was the case with this particular video, but again - if an "artist" throws out some random picture with no particularly elaborated thought behind it, and people start talking, you'll need to ask yourself WHAT they are... talking about.
They're trying to figure out the meaning of the video, right? Well, if there IS no meaning, and all the elements dicussed are chosen randomly and thoughtlessly - please tell me how that's supposed to be a compliment for the ...
twooffour 2 years ago
.creators, when the people they "got to talk about" are basically talking over nothing?
I mean, hey, if "getting people to talk" is the supreme goal of making art or entertainment, then walking naked on the street is also gonna "make people talk". Will their talking be related to, or revolve around the "intellectual complexity" of my "product", still?
twooffour 2 years ago
An artist at...I forget the university, filmed two friends have sex this week. Read it in the metro.
This university graduates stunt got him coverage in national newspapers. It was a meaningless, cheap piece of "art" but the amount of publicity and discussion he generated was his precise aim.
Don't shoot the messenger, if you don't agree with it take it up with an artist. But I'm stating fact, its what artists do. They're either trying to put across a message or prompt a reaction
drummerdickens 2 years ago