For some reason all this 'if it's Radiohead, it must be political' really bothers me. It just shows what good a job the press did in stereotyping Radiohead's music for whatever reason.
I've tried to think of the songs in In Rainbows outside the context of the entire album, and it's definitely possible to get any kind of interpretation from most of them, but what's the point? Why force things into the songs that we are not meant to hear?
Granted, Thom has said that once the songs are released, they're not really his, and it's up to us to interpret them. But he also urged people to be more open minded about this album. He actually made comments about the stereotyping of his songs when he did interviews when The Eraser first came out. First of all, remember it's just music, regardless of how powerful music is in some of our lives. Second, sometimes what we feel when we listen to a song is more important than what the lyrics are saying. Language is far more limiting than music.
For some reason all this 'if it's Radiohead, it must be political' really bothers me. It just shows what good a job the press did in stereotyping Radiohead's music for whatever reason.
I've tried to think of the songs in In Rainbows outside the context of the entire album, and it's definitely possible to get any kind of interpretation from most of them, but what's the point? Why force things into the songs that we are not meant to hear?
Granted, Thom has said that once the songs are released, they're not really his, and it's up to us to interpret them. But he also urged people to be more open minded about this album. He actually made comments about the stereotyping of his songs when he did interviews when The Eraser first came out. First of all, remember it's just music, regardless of how powerful music is in some of our lives. Second, sometimes what we feel when we listen to a song is more important than what the lyrics are saying. Language is far more limiting than music.