Posted by dr venkman:
kid rock? didnt he buy an entire trailer park with all the money he made? Someone should get him radiohead tickets and I guarentee he'll have a better orgasm than with pam anderson.

the fith paragraph is the only only one so far that even MENTIONS the point of the article, and it proves nothing. it says that there is an "ever-growing legion of Radiohead detractors that are voicing their opinion in the media", yet the article only goes to quote one source, an article 2 years old from the new york times. and the quote that they took doesn't prove anything about a legion of detractors. all it mentions is that funny article where 10-year-olds drew pictures based on the music. if the legion of detractors are all in 5th grade, radiohead haven't got anything to worry about.

paragraph seven is about how one person's reason for getting tired of radiohead was because of overexposure of the sound radiohead invented, due to a bunch of copycat bands. first, i've never heard anybody else cite their reason for disliking a band was because that band had too many imitators. second, how is that radiohead's fault? that's not even backlash against radiohead, it's backlash against bands that imitate radiohead and the record labels that fund it!

paragraph 8 is about how kid rock doesn't like radiohead. 'nuff said. paragraphs 9 and 10 are about people that support radiohead, and are the only paragraphs that hold any weight. 

paragraph 11 has a topic statement that says "As time passes and Radiohead sinks evermore into their own musical cocoon, the divisiveness grows." the remainder of the paragraph has nothing to do with either radiohead sinking into a musical coccoon or about growing divisiveness regarding the band. all it talks about is that radiohead are making a new album. wow, really!? i had NO IDEA since nobody has reported about that!

the last two paragraphs are about how some idiots wish radiohead would make more guitar music. now, this is the age old debate, and my personal (and correct) opinion is that radiohead are so much better making what they make now, and that much of their guitar stuff is crap. but i have to say, quoting someone who believes otherwise means nothing. for every bends fan there's a kid a fan, so how does the opinion hold any weight? it's always been this way, the fanbase has always been split, and it's not like there are NEW detractors, just the same people who stopped liking them sometime around 1999. it doesn't help prove the point of this attention-defecit article whatsoever.

The author repeatedly contradicts himself (for instance, saying that Radiohead refuses to fit into the mainstream - and then, paragraphs later, describing how overexposed they are and listing some of their numerous accolades) and makes huge factual inaccuracies (it's ludicrous, for instance, to claim that radio and television are unwililng to play Radiohead's music: MTV played numerous videos for The Bends, OKC, Kid A and Amnesiac - and I would guess HTTT also, although I stopped watching MTV by then. I remember Radiohead video marathons on MTV. I remember DC101 - the biggest rock station in Washington, DC playing the entirety of Kid A. I remember the huge amount of media hype that surrounds every Radiohead release. I remember the blanket coverage they get from every major newspaper. The guys are popular, and it's kind of ridiculous to assert that they aren't.)

Anarchy Rules, Ok. Radiohead Rule, OK Computer.

Radiohead dont sit and make up music from nowhere, it was always going to be this way, its different with other bands like oasis who just think lets make an album and they make some crap but if you stopped them at that point and leaded there thoughts elsewhere they would think up a different album, and the album they were going to make in the first place would have faded away into nothing never to be thought of.

I didnt want to make this so complicated (even though it is quite straight forward) but its hard to explain, and dont go looking to radiohead to confirm any of this unless you know them personally because they talk crap in interviews, which i understand but i think theyve took it far too far.