Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.
True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.
What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future... Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror
@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶
Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.
I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.
Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom
I agree with Thom... Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew! And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!! And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤
Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now
Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente
“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤ Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.
Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.
Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.
People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real
I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.
They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.
Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining. Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song
@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.
Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.
i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!
Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.
I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.
Radiohead siempre será mi banda favorita, sin embargo ya no los escucho con tanta frecuencia. Volver a sus canciones cada cierto tiempo es como volver a enamorarse, aunque suene exagerado.
that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.
I was taking notice of Optimistic from Kid A and now on the same twenty minute bus trip I see this (I did search a Thom Yorke thing to get here) and thought "a little bit of Radiohead's music is literally Opti, Thom... Thom tell him about... ah he can't hear me he's in a RU-vid Short".
For alot of people I feel sad music can enlighten the mood when your sad but when you're happy it's not the mood anymore doesn't mean it's bad now, it could be your exit but If you're a overthinker sad songs may re enter you into a sad mood when your fine it just depends on the person.
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.
Radiohead songs are deeply optimistic. Yes there are songs like Creep and Paranoid Android. But there's also True Love Waits and Reckoner and How To Disappear Completely. Their songs are more hopeful than sad. They are right around that point when bad things are in the past and good feelings are in the horizon.
Radiohead thrives On Emotion the way that Nirvana utilized loud quiet loud. Every Radiohead progression contains some sort of conflicting minor chord, funny usually leads to a satisfying resolution
It's so weird that ever since discovering Pablo Honey I have not ever thought their music to be sad. Creep made me smile from the start. Old songs like Fake Plastic Trees fill me with peace. I get a feeling that I don't have to be anything else than just who I am. When Bends came out, I was in the military at 20 years old. I also was a metalhead. I hated every single day there, it's mandatory where I live. I tried to listen to metal songs, which had always made me feel brighter and better, but they lost their power during my service and it was really depressing. I also got dumped while I was there. Then I saw the High & Dry music video one day on the mess hall - it was like the sun would have illuminated my heart. That was really ironic considering what the song is all about. After I got out, it was Radiohead and Suede for me and life could not have been sweeter.
