I thought it was about a stalker but someone told me it wasn't.
2007-11-06 07:41:24 · 11 answers · asked by Your Name 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
It's just about a guy that was in love with someone that he can't have because she's perfection to him and he's a "creep". He does follow her around, not in a stalker, just to get her attention, but he never finds the courage to talk to her.
EDIT: Found this from greenplastic.com
"Written while he (Thom Yorke) was at Exeter, he says, it tells the tale of a drunken student who tries to get attention of a woman he's attracted to; in the end, he lacks the self-confidence to pull it off."
2007-11-06 07:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by meep meep 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the album version, lead singer Thom Yorke sings, "You're so f--king special." For radio, he recut it as, "You're so very special." Yorke regrets changing the line for the radio version, saying it disturbed the "sentiment of the song."
According to him, the song lost its anger as a result.
Yorke says this is about being in love with someone, but not feeling good enough. He describes the feeling as, "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
Yorke wrote this in 1987 while he was a student at Exeter University in England. He first recorded it acoustic.
This was written before the band formed. Yorke gave his demo version to Colin Greenwood, who joined him and helped put the band together.
This wasn't released in the US until Radiohead's debut album in 1993. The band finished college and signed their record deal in 1991.
Yorke based this on a song called "The Air That I Breathe," which was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood in 1972. After "Creep" was released, Radiohead agreed to share the songwriting royalties, so this is credited to Yorke, Hammond and Hazlewood.
This did well in the US, but not in their native England. When they released their third album, O.K. Computer, it was huge in England but not in the US.
When this was first released in England in 1992, it flopped. It did well when it was re-released a year later, after Radiohead grew a fan base.
The first country this charted in was Israel.
The video was recorded at a club in Oxford called The Zodiac. (thanks, Ned - Oxford, England)
2007-11-06 15:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.
I think it is about a guy with terrible self esteem that feels like he doesn't belong on this planet. Nobody understands him. He doesn't fit in anywhere.
2007-11-06 15:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on which version you hear...there's a snarly one, that just sounds sarcastic, mocking someone who thinks they're better, then the sad one, which sounds like that's how he feels.
2007-11-06 15:47:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A guy with so many issues he can't handle the issues of his lover.
2007-11-06 15:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Your Uncle Dodge! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
extraordinary insecurity and self-loathing
sad sad song
2007-11-06 15:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by Midnight Lilly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
simply put
unpopular meets popular
2007-11-06 15:48:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
about someone who is unhappy and feels that he is not enought for the one he loves.
2007-11-06 16:27:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A GUY THAT FEELS HE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIS SIGNIFICANT OTHER...
2007-11-06 15:42:30 · answer #9 · answered by TLEE 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...???
2007-11-06 15:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by Super Wicked Flippin Sweet! 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋