Creep is about Thom being obsessed with a beautiful woman at Exeter… he was too intimidated to talk to her and wrote Creep instead… she attended one of his concerts and he was mortified😉
Oh Exeter… Oh the memories… 18yo me traveling abroad alone for first time… Listening precisely to this band among others… 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 The time I felt girly & pretty without the feeling of fraud for the first time. I wasn’t a teen anymore, I was a young woman now, on my own out in a foreign world… For a Brazilian girl, from modest means… Wow… memories… 🥰🥰🥰
“I want you to notice, when I’m not around” That line always gets me. When you said he can sing, he really really can, and he can draw those emotions out of you. I hope you guys keep digging into their stuff bc it’s great. I’d recommend Fake Plastic Trees and The Bends to start off with.
This is the quintessential anthem for anyone who feels like they don't "fit in." It's about that feeling of not being accepted for who you are. Not being comfortable in your own skin because of how the rest of the world thinks you should be...
@@joshuaguerra2651 Yes, and there are also stories about them ripping it off.Whatever the case may be.All that truly matters is how you relate to it or any other song.Music is all in ear of the beholder
Yeah, a study in insecurity. Nobody, except sociopaths, thinks they live up to their own egos completely. Excellent analysis. Great tune as well. Love the crescendos on the chorus.
"Creep" was their surprise hit when they were just starting out. They have some great songs on their next album, but I think the next Radiohead song you should play is "Paranoid Android", which shows the band really becoming the amazing weirdos they were meant to be.
@@ericlayton8888 dude, the Jools Holland performance of PA even caused my dad (50+ back then)to stop washing the damn cocoa cups and stand watching in awe with a teatowel on his shoulder. Especially the choral part. Don't think I ever saw him looking as gobsmacked!😅
It kills me that they basically disowned this song. I mean whatever beautiful musical statements they've made since, and there have been many, this song is an absolute arrow to the heart of all of us who've had unrequieted love. Not many people get to express that feeling to the masses in such a beautiful way. It's an anthem to the estranged, whether you like it or not Thom. Thank your for it regardless.
They just got tired of it because it got overplayed. But some distance and time doing other music eventually got them comfortable with playing it again as long as it didn't overshadow their other works.
Lex is a genuine ten; she's got looks and personality. Brad is a six. At best. Brad must have BDE. Like Porfirio Rubirosa levels of BDE. That's the only explanation for the sustainability of their relationship. :)
The song is about his anxiety at being near someone beautiful. The calm section is his interaction with her. But the heavy rock guitar solo is the turmoil of his anxiety (Big up to Johnny Greenwood - Lead guitar).
Brad, I like it when you hyper-analyze lyrics. That's what you are and nobody should tell you not to. It's not like it's a bad. I definitely analyze lyrics. I also headbang like Lex, and I love when she does that. The two things are not mutually exclusive, so I do both, but whatever each of you like to naturally do, do it. It's your channel, not ours. :)
exactly! I get it, because I'm definitely a combination of the two and I can relate to both of them just like you said. I love how genuine these two are.
“What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here” These 2 lines always pretty much summed up my entire life 😂 could not love this song more. Classic. Part of the soundtrack of my generation, and my youth…and sometimes my adulthood 🤣
I think it sounds like a young man that likes a certain girl, but he has self esteem issues. He is fantasizing about being, in his eyes, more perfect so he doesn't get rejected by this girl he likes. I don't think it's all that complicated. He's going through typical teenage angst.
Please stop calling this teenage angst, depression and feelings of anxiety and insecurity can be felt in people of any age, not feeling adequate or good enough for a potential romantic partner is also not an exclusively teenage emotion
feeling creepy and weird isnt restricted to teens....im big and kinda off looking, but nice kind of a live and let live type....and if im walking down the road or whatever, if a girl starts walking ahead of me, i stop and pretend to check my phone.....if i keep walking behind her, her head goes down, and she starts walking faster....so i stop, check my phone and head across the street sometimes......i know she didnt mean to make me feel like a wierdo, shes alone and half my size, naturally she got scared....i dont like scaring people.....sorry
To take it past 19, he has elevated her value and simultaneously in comparison lowered his own. So to lighten the comment section mood a bit, by a show of hands(j/k), who has seen that knockout (to you) person out in public, and you didn’t even bother to say hello because they were just too (fill in the blank)? 😄 ✋🏾
The second verse about having control, a perfect body, etc.. It’s about him judging himself harshly, so he thinks the world does too.. So he stays home, alone, in control..
I didnt care for that version at all. I dont know what it is, but ive noticed a lot in TV shows, they do this thing where they take a good song, and just get a girl and a piano to cover it slowed right down, and its really annoying. I mean come on, make an original song or make it your own ( not slowed down with a piano, because thats getting old real fast, make it really original ) stop just picking good old songs and putting a slow piano solo to it. Im all for covers, but not just by slowing it down with a piano trying to hit you in the feels. Just hits me in the annoyed.
@@myopicseer Really? Just because I didn't like, I must have no musical inclination? Not everyone likes the same type of music. You know that right? I don't have to like it to have taste. I'm sure there's some music I like that you wouldn't. But that neither gives me the right, or inclination to rag on you about it. Says more about you than my taste from that comment. No I didn't like it, big deal, I don't have to like it, and it says absolutely nothing about me except I don't like that cover. Judge me all you like, but you know Jack shit about me, but I know that you are quick to judge someone on what they may or may not like. That's pretty sad.
@@AgunziLFC It goes beyond taste. If art is merely judged by 'taste' then there is no such thing as great art., or great artists. If tapping a simple steady beat on a rock with a stick is something you say is great, and I say no, compared to Bach's complex compositions, that is idiocy, and you reply with, "Well, that's just your opinion. It comes down to taste.", then what sort of deranged, confused world have you decided to live in?
Radiohead are one of the best bands of our generation. PLEASE react to more of their stuff. So much amazing stuff to dive into. I'd suggest Fake Plastic Trees.
It's a song about being in love and how this can actually be a painful anxious experience that preys on our neuroses and insecurities. She's so amazing and I don't measure up. She can't truly like me, because its just me. Everyone who see's us together can see how far beneath her I am - they must be laughing. Maybe I'll just sabotage it now to save myself the pain I'll feel later.
This song is the anthem for the outcast. It's the closest thing I've ever heard to putting what if feels like not to fit in into words. I WAS that kid. This song has always been special to me.
I am not a massive Radiohead fan, but this means so much to me; it was released just before I went to to university (college) and it totally expressed how I felt about that time.
Johnny Greenwood is my favorite guitarist of all time….even in the later stuff where his guitar is on the floor and he’s playing with wires….absolutely visionary IMO. And Thom York packs a terrifying amount of emotion into his voice. Check out Knives Out for a more “robust” vibe.
@@WookieWarriorz Glad someone understands me.. I've always felt that Radiohead and Tool are an extension or continuation of Floyd.. But both sides of the coin.
Never ever would I have thought I would find myself addicted to a reaction channel, but I can't get enough of y'all checking out the music from my youth. Ya'll may be my favorite people on RU-vid, for real. THanks for what you do.
Totally the same. Reaction videos. Who cares. I don't want to see people sat watching videos. I've seen loads of them. And then I see these guys, and I can't stop watching. Very likeable guys. Love it. Genuine guys. Keep it up. 👍👍👍👍👍
Muse are amazing!!!! Listen to: Uprising, Plug in Baby, Knights of Cydonia, Hysteria, TIme is Running Out, Madness, They did an awesome cover of Nina Simone's "feeling good" AND SO MUCH MORE!!!! Oh and their live concerts are even better than their studio videos. Whenever possible should watch live!
The song is about having low self-esteem and an inferiority complex about how one perceives oneself. The band's singer, Thom Yorke, met a beautiful girl, but didn't have the guts to talk to her. So, he wrote "Creep", and the girl ended up coming to one of their shows. Thom has a slight physical condition (lazy eye) and a delicate frame, and maybe these are the things that made him feel "less than" at the time. One of my best friends since school has a small, runt-like build (5'4" and about 125 lbs.), but he was able to move beyond any hang-ups about his physical stature by projecting confidence. He is also gender nonconforming, so he's been rocking the eyeliner, nail polish, and a goth aesthetic in his clothing, for the 30+ years I have known him. He found out that there are women out there who are way into that, so he has never had trouble with the ladies. In addition, he's a good artist, so he sells his artwork at art shows to supplement the income from his day job. So, he has made his uniqueness really work for him.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019. An amazing band! I have been a fan from the start. The best catalog of music to react to. My favorite albums are in Rainbows, Ok Computer , and Moon Shaped Pool.
@@vigothecarpathian5501 High and Dry, Street Spirit Fade Out, Fake Plastic Trees, Killer Cars and Blackstar. For sure the Bends is one of their best. Even B-sides of Thinking about You (Pablo Honey) . Ok Computer was their breakout album for sure, but the material preceeding was just as brilliant. But John Valverde is right also, we experience all things subjectivley \m/
I loved this song from the very first time I ever heard it ... and evidently lots of people felt the same way, since it became an anthem for an entire generation.
Radiohead is one of the great bands, but they're catalogue is all over the place if you didn't evolve with them over the years. You'll definitely like a lot of their early work, and their 3rd album OK Computer is truly one of the best of all time. One of my personal favs is "Let Down", so check that out.
Great album, so many class songs. My favourite tracks are probably No Surprises, Lucky and Exit Music (from a film) but it is like attempting to pick my favourite child.
He's denoting his lack of greatness or perfection and how he feels he doesn't fit in anywhere, to the point that he feels like a loser compared to the person or people he's explaining it to.
Fun fact..In a twist of irony, The Hollies successfully sued Radiohead for plagiarising "The air that I breathe" with this song.... Radiohead then went on to produce some of the most unique, diverse and creative musical art.
Anyone could have heard this song before, and wouldn't have known there was an original. It's been covered by just about every pop artist out there. If you ever watch America's got talent. The singers there will also do this song a lot. It's a classic I guess you could say. That resonates with a lot of people.
The “Original” is “Air that I breathe” by The Hollies, which Creep totally and utterly rips off, to the extent that the Hollies song writers are credited as co-writers (after a court case).
@@SvenTviking Sure bud but they actually aren't credited. You do realize that creep literally is based on a true story and it's something Thom Yorke did himself right??
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I went out and bought this cd after I heard this song on the radio, an amazing album, one of my favorites. I hope you do more, they have so much music.
This brings me back... Gorgeous song about alienation (imo). I remember when Radiohead disowned this song, but I think that was because they didn't want to be labelled by the song's success; "that they were much more than Creep" IIRC was a qoute from Yorke... I remember thinking that was pretty arrogant of them. Obviously, I was completely and utterly wrong. Radiohead was/is one of the greatest band of the last 25 years...
no no no Brad. You do well with trying to understand songs. But thats what makes you and Lex work so well together. She's grooving to the musical melody while you are thinking about the words.
The problem you run into is a lot of songs have no meaning, they are open to interpretation. Those piss people off, I dont know why, its just rhyming with sounds, why does the meaning have to matter? Weird
A complete, unabashed ripoff of the Hollies The Air That I Breathe, which was a much better song IMO. They should have disowned it because after the record company sued, they lost all their royalties and had to give the writing credit to Albert Hammond who wrote the original.
I have to get ready to go out, but I HAD to wait and see Lex's face when the chunky guitar kicked in. 🤣😂 BRAD, just be you, man. If you wanna analyze the shit out the songs, that's how you enjoy them.
Interpreting some of these songs on one listen can be difficult... You guys are doing a good job.... The song is about the feeling of not being worthy of someone you want to be with...
Girls out of his league, wants to be better for her. He's seems to be with her bcause he's said what am I doing here. Like eating with rich inlaws proper. He's a average guy, nothing special and he grew up in a bad neighborhood. This happened to me. Now We are special Because of God.
Oh dang! You guys need to check out Haley Reinhart's version with Post Modern Jukebox! It's one of the rare occasions that a cover outpaces the original for a classic like this.
Haley is beyond amazing, and Post Modern Jukebox is so good at doing covers in different styles. I love the original, but the cover is just as good for me.
I think the song perspective is how less attractive guys, with the same romantic hopes and dreams as everyone, feel when they are classified as "creep" or "weirdo" by women. He sees this woman he's attracted too, but he won't even try. Because he already knows, from all the past experiences he had with women, how she is gonna react to a guy like him, he knows in her eyes he's "just a creep". He wishes he was special, but he knows he's not, and nothing he can do about it, after all he's an unattractive guy.
Every single album Radiohead has ever released is entirely different than the last. They’re one of the greatest bands to ever exist and each member, individually, are one of the best musicians to ever walk the Earth. I listen to their album ‘In Rainbows’ and ‘OK Computer’ from start to finish at least once every week.
When I was in high school, I was kinda like the "creep". So I could highly relate. I don't have a perfect body, I'm thin, short, and nerdy. I didn't and couldn't wear fashionable clothes, and I was very socially awkward. There were a few girls back then I was enamored with. They all seemed out of my league, and they typically dated the guys playing sports, were handsome, pretty much the opposite of what I was. So like the song, you kind of work yourself into a fantasy in your head, but you know it won't play out like you hope it would. So it was a issue with wanting to be with someone you probably don't have a chance with, and how it just rots you to your core. I didn't have a very high self-esteem as well, so asking someone out was really, really tough. I guess it is like pulling out a Jenga block from the very bottom of the stack with very shaky hands level of self-risk. So it all becomes a self-eating cycle of want, self-denial, self-loathing, desire, loneliness, and depression that makes you miserable. Even the act of asking or testing the waters to see if there was a mutual interest took more out of me than I deemed worth the risk. It is just a miserable, and self-destructive place to be because you are not only denying yourself the chance, even if it is slim, but you are denying happiness, peace of mind, and you're not building mental and emotional strength. Confidence was key, but I had nothing to be confident about. Being a teenager was all kinds of hell for me. I graduated high school, got older, hopefully matured, and pretty much threw off that phase of my life off my shoulders. So by and large, I'm over it, but every now and then I think back to that time, and this song in particular reminds me. It doesn't remind me of the girls in particular, it's been a while so I forgot their names, but it reminds me of what I missed by not shooting my shot, by obsessing, and wasting all that time being miserable by my own making.
@@endonyxoneaudio8644 Being self aware has been something I've always tried to practice. I know where I am weak, I know where I am strong, I know how much ego to revel in, and I know how much humility I should have. It's not always perfect, but I try to know me better and better as the days go by.
When it comes to music, I'm like Lex. But, when it comes to everything else, I am like Brad. I appreciate you both for who you are, not who others want you to be.
Basically the song is about anxiety. The song also represents the average man today in a world where they are ignored by most women who are seeking the impossible 1% instead of seeing the good men around them.
Love the way Radiohead takes it to the edge of crazy, loud emotion....and then drosp it back down to a quiet soulful sad place. Dramatic for a reason. Unrequited love, that isn't even expressed. Sad. [love Lex's take] The lyric is actually kinda ironic. His weirdness is not creepy. Lex is saying you don't need to have others acceptance. Be yourself (unless you are REALLY a creep) lol
My son and his friends loved to play this on Rock Band, (or one of those type games). They had two singers and they’d really get into it 🤣🤣 I miss those days when they were young.
@@anthonymanuge6237 yeah, I know (can see why you commented though) I couldn't name a single track off Pablo Honey other than Creep. The Bends is peak RH is all I was getting at.
So many people feel inadequate or the special people are in a league of their own. It’s surprising how many of the Beautiful people are feeling the same way when I was still playing many I thought were out of my league ended up moving on me I think because I try hard to be honest and real !
Great breakdown Lex! You have a super open mind to all kinds of music and I can’t wait to see where you guys take your channel! I’d love to see you both tackle some old school country (Alan Jackson, George Strait, etc)
