I think that this song is about the lies we tell ourselves, in relation with the things we want to do or who we want to be (our Big Ideas for our life, that won't happen). Also about our abilty to decieve ourselves from the ture person that we are (we paint ourselves white, even though we are not pure) and our ability to blind ourselves from our present situations, refusing to see, or hear in this case, (we fill up with noise). "But there'll be something missing", even though we lie to ourselves and convince ourselves about these things we want to achieve, there will always be something missing. This song is extremely pessimistic, going even further in it's analysis of the meaningless efforts we make to get the things we want in the next verse. "Now that you find it, it's gone, now that you feel it you don't", for me this verse is about a very common aspect of our human nature, first we convince ourselves that we need something, or someone, to be happy, to feel fulfilled, but when we get this someone, this feeling, or this thing, we find out that that wasn't the problem, that it didn't make us any happier. Now that we got it, it's gone, it doesn't matter, and now that we feel it, we don't. That which we thought we needed, was really a waste of time, and this make's us feel lost, it takes us off our rails. Lost and even nude, vulnerable and confused, as the title implies it. I'm a little lost with the meaning of the last line, "You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking", I understand that this line could leave the song open for sexual interpretations, but in my opinion it has nothing to do with it. Maybe it is directed to us as listeners to the song? Because really the easy interpretation for this song is about some sexual adventure, so it confronts us and our subconscious need to relate all thing to sex! I really have no idea... but in my opinion this song is about human desire for things and the frustration when we finally get them and find out we don't care for them at all.... it's very pessimistic and crude but at the same time indeniably true!
i completely agree with you. i'll go so far as to say that the allusions to finding or feeling "it" may even be unrequited. that is, he is so pessimistic that i don't think it even matters if he really finds or feels it because he knows with certainty that it's not going to happen. as for the "you'll go to hell..." part, i think it might be a stretch, but i feel like he is telling himself that he will put himself through hell for thinking things other than these big ideas not happening. perhaps...
i completely agree with you. i'll go so far as to say that the allusions to finding or feeling "it" may even be unrequited. that is, he is so pessimistic that i don't think it even matters if he really finds or feels it because he knows with certainty that it's not going to happen. as for the "you'll go to hell..." part, i think it might be a stretch, but i feel like he is telling himself that he will put himself through hell for thinking things other than these big ideas not happening. perhaps there is a shred of him that still wants to believe that it could happen, and so he is warning himself that thinking that way will be hellish in the end.
I was so excited reading your interpretation, nn1000. My interpretation is similar. The only thing that initially made me think this song was sexual was the "you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking."
I was so excited reading your interpretation, nn1000. My interpretation is similar. The only thing that initially made me think this song was sexual was the "you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking."
I like to think that it's about the dangers and inevitable disappointment of being unjustifiably optimistic.
"don't get any big ideas, they're not going to happen" to me, meant that many of us humans view their future and goals they aim to achieve too idealistically sometimes.
"You paint yourself white and fill up with noise" I thought was about not really absorbing reality...
I like to think that it's about the dangers and inevitable disappointment of being unjustifiably optimistic.
"don't get any big ideas, they're not going to happen" to me, meant that many of us humans view their future and goals they aim to achieve too idealistically sometimes.
"You paint yourself white and fill up with noise" I thought was about not really absorbing reality which is also the "something missing", and staying sheltered with your idealizations.
eventually when you achieve the goals you had set out for, you non-superficially/deep-down, realize that you're disappointed! Your expectations weren't met. "now that you've found it, it's gone"
I think going off the rails could mean that the character has momentarily left the comfort/ease of his idealizations. Which I think in the context of the song title "Nude" is totally relatable to being exposed, removing your reflective facade, and not lying to yourself.
Overall, my impression makes this seem like a totally pessimistic/depressing song, but I also like the harshness and reality of it. I think the moral of staying real is important, but would be better taken with a grain of salt. I totally believe there's power in being optimistic (bordering on unjustifiably/wildly optimistic) to really reach your full potential. There may be some benefits to lying to yourself (like telling yourself you can definitely do something!), when you're not totally forgetting reality
and i was lost with the last line too. but now I think the dirty mind is those desires "that wish we though we needed" that leads to nothing. You end up wishing for something you don't want and you'll go to hell for that (you're gonna suffer since there's nothing you really want or nothing you really get)
and i was lost with the last line too. but now I think the dirty mind is those desires "that wish we though we needed" that leads to nothing. You end up wishing for something you don't want and you'll go to hell for that (you're gonna suffer since there's nothing you really want or nothing you really get)
I agree with a the first part of your analysis… I disagree that the song is pessimistic and i have an idea about the line you don't understand " You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking!". The song is referring to working towards, goals, dreams, and aspirations that our not our own, they are given to us by culture, and out specific societal values, in the best interest of the state (not the collective whole, or the universe). My by creating an us versus them mentality we are not being true to the true values...
I agree with a the first part of your analysis… I disagree that the song is pessimistic and i have an idea about the line you don't understand " You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking!". The song is referring to working towards, goals, dreams, and aspirations that our not our own, they are given to us by culture, and out specific societal values, in the best interest of the state (not the collective whole, or the universe). My by creating an us versus them mentality we are not being true to the true values that our within us. The truth is there is something deep inside of us or some of us that knows the right path and the pressures of society make us stray from that and pass it of as "normal". The song is optimistic in that is showing us there our others who feel the same as you. The line "You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking" could mean that you are going to suffer, we are all going to suffer, from not following that inner voice, and being influenced by societal expectations. The song is saying to believe in yourself and each other as a collective whole. Stop doubting yourself or you are going to suffer and no matter how hard you work to reach your goals, if you don't do it the right way you will never escape the emptiness. The song could be about embracing vulnerability. There is vulnerability because there is something that makes us uncomfortable and we must be able to face it. If we refuse to face that part of us. The part that knows but ignores, we will never reach our true potential.
@nn1000 Yeah the title "Nude" could refer to our identities, our true selves, our selves without any needs, or our lack of ability to attain that "something missing", which is probably as simple as love, or compassion, or other things which give meaning to our lives.
@nn1000 Yeah the title "Nude" could refer to our identities, our true selves, our selves without any needs, or our lack of ability to attain that "something missing", which is probably as simple as love, or compassion, or other things which give meaning to our lives.
@nn1000 While this was posted oh 8 years ago, I think you are 90% on the dot. While it is about our wants and not necessarily needs, it also describes our self worth and how we maybe don't necessarily allow ourselves to do these great things. It can be seen as a pessimistic song, sure, I think it's very optimistic, maybe it's right in between but closer to optimistic. The line "you'll go to hell for your dirty mind" to me says: stop beating yourself up and do it! But I may be an ultra optimist and want to see...
@nn1000 While this was posted oh 8 years ago, I think you are 90% on the dot. While it is about our wants and not necessarily needs, it also describes our self worth and how we maybe don't necessarily allow ourselves to do these great things. It can be seen as a pessimistic song, sure, I think it's very optimistic, maybe it's right in between but closer to optimistic. The line "you'll go to hell for your dirty mind" to me says: stop beating yourself up and do it! But I may be an ultra optimist and want to see this song as positive as possible. Sung so beautifully.
@nn1000 I'm Argentinean radiohead´s fan. So, my native language is Spanish (sorry for my precarious English, . I appreciate the contribution of comments in this web site cause they make me feel the songs closer to my “spirit” (speaking in yorke´tongue, ).
About the last line of this song: certain philosophers think that the human being is a fallible being, so, every thought (of this fallible being) will be probably a mistake. A really pessimistic position. The good thing is that it is our unique condition on hearth and that someone can express it so beautifully, and we listen it before...
@nn1000 I'm Argentinean radiohead´s fan. So, my native language is Spanish (sorry for my precarious English, . I appreciate the contribution of comments in this web site cause they make me feel the songs closer to my “spirit” (speaking in yorke´tongue, ).
About the last line of this song: certain philosophers think that the human being is a fallible being, so, every thought (of this fallible being) will be probably a mistake. A really pessimistic position. The good thing is that it is our unique condition on hearth and that someone can express it so beautifully, and we listen it before bed. Thank for your comments.
So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You'll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind
Is thinking
So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You'll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind
Is thinking
Your dirty mind is thinking about your desires that you think will fulfill you but when you fail over and over to become the best version of yourself, you’ll start to believe your failures are all you really are. To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause. That is hell.
Your dirty mind is thinking about your desires that you think will fulfill you but when you fail over and over to become the best version of yourself, you’ll start to believe your failures are all you really are. To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause. That is hell.
Maybe if you didn’t have any big ideas, you wouldn’t have anything to compare yourself to when you fail. Maybe hell would...
Maybe if you didn’t have any big ideas, you wouldn’t have anything to compare yourself to when you fail. Maybe hell would cease to exist.
I think that this song is about the lies we tell ourselves, in relation with the things we want to do or who we want to be (our Big Ideas for our life, that won't happen). Also about our abilty to decieve ourselves from the ture person that we are (we paint ourselves white, even though we are not pure) and our ability to blind ourselves from our present situations, refusing to see, or hear in this case, (we fill up with noise). "But there'll be something missing", even though we lie to ourselves and convince ourselves about these things we want to achieve, there will always be something missing. This song is extremely pessimistic, going even further in it's analysis of the meaningless efforts we make to get the things we want in the next verse. "Now that you find it, it's gone, now that you feel it you don't", for me this verse is about a very common aspect of our human nature, first we convince ourselves that we need something, or someone, to be happy, to feel fulfilled, but when we get this someone, this feeling, or this thing, we find out that that wasn't the problem, that it didn't make us any happier. Now that we got it, it's gone, it doesn't matter, and now that we feel it, we don't. That which we thought we needed, was really a waste of time, and this make's us feel lost, it takes us off our rails. Lost and even nude, vulnerable and confused, as the title implies it. I'm a little lost with the meaning of the last line, "You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking", I understand that this line could leave the song open for sexual interpretations, but in my opinion it has nothing to do with it. Maybe it is directed to us as listeners to the song? Because really the easy interpretation for this song is about some sexual adventure, so it confronts us and our subconscious need to relate all thing to sex! I really have no idea... but in my opinion this song is about human desire for things and the frustration when we finally get them and find out we don't care for them at all.... it's very pessimistic and crude but at the same time indeniably true!
i completely agree with you. i'll go so far as to say that the allusions to finding or feeling "it" may even be unrequited. that is, he is so pessimistic that i don't think it even matters if he really finds or feels it because he knows with certainty that it's not going to happen. as for the "you'll go to hell..." part, i think it might be a stretch, but i feel like he is telling himself that he will put himself through hell for thinking things other than these big ideas not happening. perhaps...
i completely agree with you. i'll go so far as to say that the allusions to finding or feeling "it" may even be unrequited. that is, he is so pessimistic that i don't think it even matters if he really finds or feels it because he knows with certainty that it's not going to happen. as for the "you'll go to hell..." part, i think it might be a stretch, but i feel like he is telling himself that he will put himself through hell for thinking things other than these big ideas not happening. perhaps there is a shred of him that still wants to believe that it could happen, and so he is warning himself that thinking that way will be hellish in the end.
I was so excited reading your interpretation, nn1000. My interpretation is similar. The only thing that initially made me think this song was sexual was the "you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking."
I was so excited reading your interpretation, nn1000. My interpretation is similar. The only thing that initially made me think this song was sexual was the "you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking."
I like to think that it's about the dangers and inevitable disappointment of being unjustifiably optimistic. "don't get any big ideas, they're not going to happen" to me, meant that many of us humans view their future and goals they aim to achieve too idealistically sometimes. "You paint yourself white and fill up with noise" I thought was about not really absorbing reality...
I like to think that it's about the dangers and inevitable disappointment of being unjustifiably optimistic. "don't get any big ideas, they're not going to happen" to me, meant that many of us humans view their future and goals they aim to achieve too idealistically sometimes. "You paint yourself white and fill up with noise" I thought was about not really absorbing reality which is also the "something missing", and staying sheltered with your idealizations.
eventually when you achieve the goals you had set out for, you non-superficially/deep-down, realize that you're disappointed! Your expectations weren't met. "now that you've found it, it's gone"
I think going off the rails could mean that the character has momentarily left the comfort/ease of his idealizations. Which I think in the context of the song title "Nude" is totally relatable to being exposed, removing your reflective facade, and not lying to yourself.
Overall, my impression makes this seem like a totally pessimistic/depressing song, but I also like the harshness and reality of it. I think the moral of staying real is important, but would be better taken with a grain of salt. I totally believe there's power in being optimistic (bordering on unjustifiably/wildly optimistic) to really reach your full potential. There may be some benefits to lying to yourself (like telling yourself you can definitely do something!), when you're not totally forgetting reality
I interpreted the song more or less like you.
I interpreted the song more or less like you.
and i was lost with the last line too. but now I think the dirty mind is those desires "that wish we though we needed" that leads to nothing. You end up wishing for something you don't want and you'll go to hell for that (you're gonna suffer since there's nothing you really want or nothing you really get)
and i was lost with the last line too. but now I think the dirty mind is those desires "that wish we though we needed" that leads to nothing. You end up wishing for something you don't want and you'll go to hell for that (you're gonna suffer since there's nothing you really want or nothing you really get)
yeah pessimistic
yeah pessimistic
that's my way of seeing it
that's my way of seeing it
I agree with a the first part of your analysis… I disagree that the song is pessimistic and i have an idea about the line you don't understand " You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking!". The song is referring to working towards, goals, dreams, and aspirations that our not our own, they are given to us by culture, and out specific societal values, in the best interest of the state (not the collective whole, or the universe). My by creating an us versus them mentality we are not being true to the true values...
I agree with a the first part of your analysis… I disagree that the song is pessimistic and i have an idea about the line you don't understand " You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking!". The song is referring to working towards, goals, dreams, and aspirations that our not our own, they are given to us by culture, and out specific societal values, in the best interest of the state (not the collective whole, or the universe). My by creating an us versus them mentality we are not being true to the true values that our within us. The truth is there is something deep inside of us or some of us that knows the right path and the pressures of society make us stray from that and pass it of as "normal". The song is optimistic in that is showing us there our others who feel the same as you. The line "You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking" could mean that you are going to suffer, we are all going to suffer, from not following that inner voice, and being influenced by societal expectations. The song is saying to believe in yourself and each other as a collective whole. Stop doubting yourself or you are going to suffer and no matter how hard you work to reach your goals, if you don't do it the right way you will never escape the emptiness. The song could be about embracing vulnerability. There is vulnerability because there is something that makes us uncomfortable and we must be able to face it. If we refuse to face that part of us. The part that knows but ignores, we will never reach our true potential.
@nn1000 Yeah the title "Nude" could refer to our identities, our true selves, our selves without any needs, or our lack of ability to attain that "something missing", which is probably as simple as love, or compassion, or other things which give meaning to our lives.
@nn1000 Yeah the title "Nude" could refer to our identities, our true selves, our selves without any needs, or our lack of ability to attain that "something missing", which is probably as simple as love, or compassion, or other things which give meaning to our lives.
@nn1000 While this was posted oh 8 years ago, I think you are 90% on the dot. While it is about our wants and not necessarily needs, it also describes our self worth and how we maybe don't necessarily allow ourselves to do these great things. It can be seen as a pessimistic song, sure, I think it's very optimistic, maybe it's right in between but closer to optimistic. The line "you'll go to hell for your dirty mind" to me says: stop beating yourself up and do it! But I may be an ultra optimist and want to see...
@nn1000 While this was posted oh 8 years ago, I think you are 90% on the dot. While it is about our wants and not necessarily needs, it also describes our self worth and how we maybe don't necessarily allow ourselves to do these great things. It can be seen as a pessimistic song, sure, I think it's very optimistic, maybe it's right in between but closer to optimistic. The line "you'll go to hell for your dirty mind" to me says: stop beating yourself up and do it! But I may be an ultra optimist and want to see this song as positive as possible. Sung so beautifully.
@nn1000 I'm Argentinean radiohead´s fan. So, my native language is Spanish (sorry for my precarious English, . I appreciate the contribution of comments in this web site cause they make me feel the songs closer to my “spirit” (speaking in yorke´tongue, ). About the last line of this song: certain philosophers think that the human being is a fallible being, so, every thought (of this fallible being) will be probably a mistake. A really pessimistic position. The good thing is that it is our unique condition on hearth and that someone can express it so beautifully, and we listen it before...
@nn1000 I'm Argentinean radiohead´s fan. So, my native language is Spanish (sorry for my precarious English, . I appreciate the contribution of comments in this web site cause they make me feel the songs closer to my “spirit” (speaking in yorke´tongue, ). About the last line of this song: certain philosophers think that the human being is a fallible being, so, every thought (of this fallible being) will be probably a mistake. A really pessimistic position. The good thing is that it is our unique condition on hearth and that someone can express it so beautifully, and we listen it before bed. Thank for your comments.
@nn1000 Totally man. FUCKNG GENIUS! This interpretation made me understand this song much better, and honestly, it gave me chills.
@nn1000 Totally man. FUCKNG GENIUS! This interpretation made me understand this song much better, and honestly, it gave me chills.
@nn1000 the last line.
@nn1000 the last line.
So don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen You'll go to Hell For what your dirty mind Is thinking
So don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen You'll go to Hell For what your dirty mind Is thinking
Your dirty mind is thinking about your desires that you think will fulfill you but when you fail over and over to become the best version of yourself, you’ll start to believe your failures are all you really are. To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause. That is hell.
Your dirty mind is thinking about your desires that you think will fulfill you but when you fail over and over to become the best version of yourself, you’ll start to believe your failures are all you really are. To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause. That is hell.
Maybe if you didn’t have any big ideas, you wouldn’t have anything to compare yourself to when you fail. Maybe hell would...
Maybe if you didn’t have any big ideas, you wouldn’t have anything to compare yourself to when you fail. Maybe hell would cease to exist.