A while ago, without their music becoming any less good, per se, I stopped liking Radiohead.
I stopped liking them because they are the Seriousest Band.
They are seriouser than U2 (they would never score a musical about Spider-Man).
They are seriouser than Arcade Fire (they would never actually show up at the Grammies).
I have literally never had any emotion that was serious enough that I could relate to any Radiohead song, I think.
I don’t think I would want to, seems like it would be terrible.
But does the fact that their new video consists entirely of Thom Yorke doing silly dances while wearing a Joshua Tree–era Edge costume make them more or less serious?
I think it actually makes them more serious. I think they’ve reached the transcendent level of seriousness where no matter what happens, they can only continue to become more serious.
Wait, no, I take it back: this makes them seem way less serious.
