I've always felt that OK Computer isn't so much solely about technology, more jsut about feeling alienated from society. Technology plays a major part in that, of course, but it's not everything. Airbag is about cars, really, and how we can't trust them. Paranoid Andriod is about "the dullest people on earth" - the people at the top, who tell us what to do. Subterannean Homesick Alien is about how wierd out habits would seem to a stranger to society. Exit Music is about two lovers misunderstood and rejected by the world. Let Down jsut really embodies the whole feeling of detachment from the world that pervades the whole album. Karma Police I've never quite been sure about to be quite honest. Fitter Happier says that the things we aspire to in life is really just being "a pig in a cage on antibiotics". Electioneering is about how politicians have to manipulate people in order to succeed, it's not just a question of policy. Climbing Up The Walls is really about a psychopath, I don't quite see how it fits in with the album. No Suprises could be about suicide, or rretirement, but really it's just about being sick of the fucked up values of our society - it's a last stand against the world. Lucky is similar in theme to Airbag, only this time with a plane, and it has more of an air of tragedy. Surrounded by corpses and carnage, but by a miracle you've survived, and you celebrate it. The Tourist Jonny wrote inspired by when he was sitting in a reallly beatiful square somewhere in France, and all these tourists were being rushed around trying to see everything in ten minutes, and never really appreciating any of it. So, again, it's about how are values are wrong, and we're not really seeing beauty in itself.
There. You asked for an interpretation of Let Down, and you got an interpretation (albiet brief) of the whole album. Enjoy. :D
I've always felt that OK Computer isn't so much solely about technology, more jsut about feeling alienated from society. Technology plays a major part in that, of course, but it's not everything. Airbag is about cars, really, and how we can't trust them. Paranoid Andriod is about "the dullest people on earth" - the people at the top, who tell us what to do. Subterannean Homesick Alien is about how wierd out habits would seem to a stranger to society. Exit Music is about two lovers misunderstood and rejected by the world. Let Down jsut really embodies the whole feeling of detachment from the world that pervades the whole album. Karma Police I've never quite been sure about to be quite honest. Fitter Happier says that the things we aspire to in life is really just being "a pig in a cage on antibiotics". Electioneering is about how politicians have to manipulate people in order to succeed, it's not just a question of policy. Climbing Up The Walls is really about a psychopath, I don't quite see how it fits in with the album. No Suprises could be about suicide, or rretirement, but really it's just about being sick of the fucked up values of our society - it's a last stand against the world. Lucky is similar in theme to Airbag, only this time with a plane, and it has more of an air of tragedy. Surrounded by corpses and carnage, but by a miracle you've survived, and you celebrate it. The Tourist Jonny wrote inspired by when he was sitting in a reallly beatiful square somewhere in France, and all these tourists were being rushed around trying to see everything in ten minutes, and never really appreciating any of it. So, again, it's about how are values are wrong, and we're not really seeing beauty in itself.
There. You asked for an interpretation of Let Down, and you got an interpretation (albiet brief) of the whole album. Enjoy. :D