anonymous Apr 7th 2010 !⃝Dude "I might be wrong" but I'm pretty sure this song came out in... lets see the year 2000... This was when we were all worried about y2k... I believe the song itself being called "the national anthem" is the bands attempt at the modern way of thinking. The trumpets being played all over the place in the beginning sounds a lot like when stringed musicians warm up to the ACTUAL national anthem. This is RADIOHEAD'S "national anthem"
its about who we are as a society
and what we are all dealing with
he keeps saying "its holding on"
because for some reason, with all the mass hysteria and crazy shit that was going on around then.... Somehow everything was still holding on.... The whole album has an elemental feel of where they were as a band... or where thom was... but I believe the band is the true mind...
when you look at it from an artists perspective with what radiohead does with their sounds in combining with their lyrical content and harmonies... They've mastered what true artistry is.
true art is any type of expression of showing how you see your environment. and radiohead just got big as soon as I started actually following music, therefor they remaain my favorite band. because they never tried to outsmart you, but its so good that some people love it so much they look for a meaning that's deeper than how it is.... This is when artists sit back and laugh and why most of the time we don't reveal what our enterpretation is because that would spoil it for everyone else.... why not let everyone else just run with their imaginations and believe whatever they want to
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