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April 17, 2007
Pre-Retrohump: Radiohead
This is a special edition of Retrohump (Tuesday) celebrating Radiohead's victory in our Album Insanity tournament. Your regularly scheduled Retrohump, helmed by the estimable Jeff Klingman, will drop tomorrow.
No Surprises
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia, but believe this:
The single featured a simple video which consists entirely of a close-up shot of Thom Yorke's head inside a plastic bubble which slowly fills up with water until he is completely submerged. He spends 57 seconds completely submerged with his breath held before the water is released and he resumes singing. The documentary Meeting People Is Easy showed that Thom only held his breath for a fraction of the time, done by speeding up the track Thom is miming to as his face becomes totally submerged and that the footage was edited to make it look like he was under for longer. Additionally, reflected on the bubble the lyrics scroll up and lights blink on and off. Both the video and the documentary were directed by Grant Gee.
Karma Police
Director Jonathan Glazer was not happy with the end result.
BONUS
Street Spirit (from The Bends)
Posted by Keith O'Brien at April 17, 2007 10:26 AM
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