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From Dialogue to Impersonation

 

How to capture the brilliance of Thom Yorke on a Webpage...

 

 

...without trivializing his work into exposition.

 

Thom Yorke's band, radiohead, has always made music to convey various messages of alienation and loneliness, in a way that you can identify with even without having the knowledge of the motivations of Thom Yorke to write those lyrics. Radiohead to me may be a drastically different experience than someone else's radiohead, which is why music, like fight club, can convey meaning without a full explanation of the song.

 

If a song can arouse emotion, than it is affecting you, something is "stinging" you that evokes past memories or experiences. That song for me is "How to Disappear Completely" off the Kid A album:

 

"In a little while

I'll be gone

The moment's already passed

Yeah it's gone

And I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here

I'm not here

 

Strobe lights and blown speakers

Fireworks and hurricanes

I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here

I'm not here"

I'm not here. This isn't happening.

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