| ] It is no longer possible to have an original opinion on] Radiohead.
 ]
 ] You've absorbed the deified albums, quarreled over the
 ] rock critic pontifications, frowned at the guarded,
 ] combative interviews. Thom Yorke's ugly-stick-beaten mug
 ] has peered at you from the pages of every magazine known
 ] to man; his every word and every note has ignited its own
 ] individual Internet flame war. Mass media has bombarded
 ] us with Radiohead critique, rendering us unable to
 ] generate an unfiltered opinion of our own.
 ]
 ] When you listen to Radiohead, you're no longer actually
 ] listening to Radiohead -- you're listening to everyone's
 ] opinion about Radiohead. It's impossible to separate what
 ] you hear from what you've read. You are betrayed by what
 ] you know, and you know way too much.
 ]
 ] Thus, in order to solicit an honest, undiluted opinion
 ] about Radiohead, you'd have to find the proverbial People
 ] Living Under Rocks. As People Living Under Rocks are
 ] unavailable, let's use fifth graders.
 ]
 ] Specifically, Mitsi Kato's fifth-grade class at Roosevelt
 ] Elementary in San Leandro.
 Music Radiohead Rorschach, An innocent fifth grader's picture is worth a thousand-word critical analysis.,By Rob Harvilla |