Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times

By Daphne A Brooks

 

Clockwise from top left: Nina Simone, Thom Yorke, Roman GianArthur, Alice Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Arlo Parks and Lianne La Havas. Composite: Guardian Design; Hayley Madden/Redferns; David Redfern; Frederick M Brown/Getty Images; Echoes/Redferns; Jim Dyson/Getty Images; Anthony Harvey/REX/Shutterstock; Suki Dhanda/The Observer

 

Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world

 

Ask anyone who is the Blackest white rock band to emerge over the past 30 years, and my hunch is that few would say Radiohead.

 

The hypnotically wonky Oxfordshire quintet are lauded for intricate, challenging music that is now far from their grunge-era breakthrough.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/02/why-radiohead-are-the-blackest-white-band-of-our-times

hmmm.  capitalize Black, but not white?

 

that's racist.

Guardian ????. Write absolute bull on a daily basis and beg for money from its online readers.  The obsession with identity this last decade is driving me nuts . 

On 10/2/2020 at 1:57 PM, ChouDoufu said:

hmmm.  capitalize Black, but not white?

 

that's racist.

You want some cheese to go with that whine?

5 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

You want some cheese to go with that whine?

 

are you saying racial discrimination is NOT racist?

 

#whitefeelzmattertoooooo

and the whitest black band of all time

 

 

5 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

 

are you saying racial discrimination is NOT racist?

 

#whitefeelzmattertoooooo

No, I’m not! I’m saying you’re making a fuzz over nothing! 

5 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

You want some cheese to go with that whine?

But he's right.

13 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

No, I’m not! I’m saying you’re making a fuzz over nothing! 

Its not nothing. Black shouldn't always have a capital B. So much for equality.

16 hours ago, H1w4yR1da said:

Its not nothing. Black shouldn't always have a capital B. So much for equality.

Who says it always has a capital B? It could be something as simple as a typo by the guy who wrote the article. Wouldn’t be a first! But he gets bent up of shape because how dare the guy to capitalize the word blacks, but not the word whites. It’s like two toddlers getting soft ice cream and the other one‘s is a centimeter taller and now the other one has to make a massive fuss over it! 
 

The guy comes across like a racist and makes a fuss over nothing! 

2 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

Who says it always has a capital B? It could be something as simple as a typo by the guy who wrote the article. Wouldn’t be a first! But he gets bent up of shape because how dare the guy to capitalize the word blacks, but not the word whites. It’s like two toddlers getting soft ice cream and the other one‘s is a centimeter taller and now the other one has to make a massive fuss over it! 
 

The guy comes across like a racist and makes a fuss over nothing! 

Did you read the article?  It’s not a typo.  Nor is the fact that the only time “white” is mentioned it is done so in a lower case...like in this condescending quote about a song (that people have endlessly argued over the meaning for eons where the band actually just picked phrases out of a hat randomly for the lyrics)

 

”Kid A’s biggest pop chorus, on Idioteque – “Here I’m allowed everything all of the time” – is a sarcastic condemnation of (white) privilege that has brought us to the edge of a climate crisis, but it’s a sentiment that may not chime with Black people, who aren’t allowed very much any of the time.”

 

But it’s really not surprising considering the author of this garbage article...

 

 

 

Edited October 4, 20205 yr by Airalee

I would offer that KC and the Sunshine Band fits the bill better than the Radioheads 

its funny

 

16 minutes ago, Dan O said:

I would offer that KC and the Sunshine Band fits the bill better than the Radioheads 

Nah...KC would probably be considered to be the biggest cultural appropriator and colonizer in the history of music.  Just look at him in this picture with his original band basking in the glory of his white privilege.
 

 

 

10 hours ago, Airalee said:

Did you read the article?  It’s not a typo.  Nor is the fact that the only time “white” is mentioned it is done so in a lower case...like in this condescending quote about a song (that people have endlessly argued over the meaning for eons where the band actually just picked phrases out of a hat randomly for the lyrics)

 

”Kid A’s biggest pop chorus, on Idioteque – “Here I’m allowed everything all of the time” – is a sarcastic condemnation of (white) privilege that has brought us to the edge of a climate crisis, but it’s a sentiment that may not chime with Black people, who aren’t allowed very much any of the time.”

 

But it’s really not surprising considering the author of this garbage article...

 

 

 

Again, fuss over nothing! 

2 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

Again, fuss over nothing! 

I’m not fussing....I’m mocking all the SJW garbage du-jour.