Creep is about Thom being obsessed with a beautiful woman at Exeter… he was too intimidated to talk to her and wrote Creep instead… she attended one of his concerts and he was mortified😉
Oh Exeter… Oh the memories… 18yo me traveling abroad alone for first time… Listening precisely to this band among others… 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 The time I felt girly & pretty without the feeling of fraud for the first time. I wasn’t a teen anymore, I was a young woman now, on my own out in a foreign world… For a Brazilian girl, from modest means… Wow… memories… 🥰🥰🥰
“I want you to notice, when I’m not around” That line always gets me. When you said he can sing, he really really can, and he can draw those emotions out of you. I hope you guys keep digging into their stuff bc it’s great. I’d recommend Fake Plastic Trees and The Bends to start off with.
This is the quintessential anthem for anyone who feels like they don't "fit in." It's about that feeling of not being accepted for who you are. Not being comfortable in your own skin because of how the rest of the world thinks you should be...
"Creep" was their surprise hit when they were just starting out. They have some great songs on their next album, but I think the next Radiohead song you should play is "Paranoid Android", which shows the band really becoming the amazing weirdos they were meant to be.
@@ericlayton8888 dude, the Jools Holland performance of PA even caused my dad (50+ back then)to stop washing the damn cocoa cups and stand watching in awe with a teatowel on his shoulder. Especially the choral part. Don't think I ever saw him looking as gobsmacked!😅
It kills me that they basically disowned this song. I mean whatever beautiful musical statements they've made since, and there have been many, this song is an absolute arrow to the heart of all of us who've had unrequieted love. Not many people get to express that feeling to the masses in such a beautiful way. It's an anthem to the estranged, whether you like it or not Thom. Thank your for it regardless.
They just got tired of it because it got overplayed. But some distance and time doing other music eventually got them comfortable with playing it again as long as it didn't overshadow their other works.
The second verse about having control, a perfect body, etc.. It’s about him judging himself harshly, so he thinks the world does too.. So he stays home, alone, in control..
@@joshuaguerra2651 Yes, and there are also stories about them ripping it off.Whatever the case may be.All that truly matters is how you relate to it or any other song.Music is all in ear of the beholder
Yeah, a study in insecurity. Nobody, except sociopaths, thinks they live up to their own egos completely. Excellent analysis. Great tune as well. Love the crescendos on the chorus.
The song is about his anxiety at being near someone beautiful. The calm section is his interaction with her. But the heavy rock guitar solo is the turmoil of his anxiety (Big up to Johnny Greenwood - Lead guitar).
This song is the anthem for the outcast. It's the closest thing I've ever heard to putting what if feels like not to fit in into words. I WAS that kid. This song has always been special to me.
Brad, I like it when you hyper-analyze lyrics. That's what you are and nobody should tell you not to. It's not like it's a bad. I definitely analyze lyrics. I also headbang like Lex, and I love when she does that. The two things are not mutually exclusive, so I do both, but whatever each of you like to naturally do, do it. It's your channel, not ours. :)
exactly! I get it, because I'm definitely a combination of the two and I can relate to both of them just like you said. I love how genuine these two are.
Never ever would I have thought I would find myself addicted to a reaction channel, but I can't get enough of y'all checking out the music from my youth. Ya'll may be my favorite people on TH-cam, for real. THanks for what you do.
Totally the same. Reaction videos. Who cares. I don't want to see people sat watching videos. I've seen loads of them. And then I see these guys, and I can't stop watching. Very likeable guys. Love it. Genuine guys. Keep it up. 👍👍👍👍👍
I am not a massive Radiohead fan, but this means so much to me; it was released just before I went to to university (college) and it totally expressed how I felt about that time.
I went out and bought this cd after I heard this song on the radio, an amazing album, one of my favorites. I hope you do more, they have so much music.
I loved this song from the very first time I ever heard it ... and evidently lots of people felt the same way, since it became an anthem for an entire generation.
Radiohead are one of the best bands of our generation. PLEASE react to more of their stuff. So much amazing stuff to dive into. I'd suggest Fake Plastic Trees.
It's a song about being in love and how this can actually be a painful anxious experience that preys on our neuroses and insecurities. She's so amazing and I don't measure up. She can't truly like me, because its just me. Everyone who see's us together can see how far beneath her I am - they must be laughing. Maybe I'll just sabotage it now to save myself the pain I'll feel later.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019. An amazing band! I have been a fan from the start. The best catalog of music to react to. My favorite albums are in Rainbows, Ok Computer , and Moon Shaped Pool.
@@vigothecarpathian5501 High and Dry, Street Spirit Fade Out, Fake Plastic Trees, Killer Cars and Blackstar. For sure the Bends is one of their best. Even B-sides of Thinking about You (Pablo Honey) . Ok Computer was their breakout album for sure, but the material preceeding was just as brilliant. But John Valverde is right also, we experience all things subjectivley \m/
Lex is a genuine ten; she's got looks and personality. Brad is a six. At best. Brad must have BDE. Like Porfirio Rubirosa levels of BDE. That's the only explanation for the sustainability of their relationship. :)
Johnny Greenwood is my favorite guitarist of all time….even in the later stuff where his guitar is on the floor and he’s playing with wires….absolutely visionary IMO. And Thom York packs a terrifying amount of emotion into his voice. Check out Knives Out for a more “robust” vibe.
@@WookieWarriorz Glad someone understands me.. I've always felt that Radiohead and Tool are an extension or continuation of Floyd.. But both sides of the coin.
Every single album Radiohead has ever released is entirely different than the last. They’re one of the greatest bands to ever exist and each member, individually, are one of the best musicians to ever walk the Earth. I listen to their album ‘In Rainbows’ and ‘OK Computer’ from start to finish at least once every week.
Anyone could have heard this song before, and wouldn't have known there was an original. It's been covered by just about every pop artist out there. If you ever watch America's got talent. The singers there will also do this song a lot. It's a classic I guess you could say. That resonates with a lot of people.
The “Original” is “Air that I breathe” by The Hollies, which Creep totally and utterly rips off, to the extent that the Hollies song writers are credited as co-writers (after a court case).
@@SvenTviking Sure bud but they actually aren't credited. You do realize that creep literally is based on a true story and it's something Thom Yorke did himself right??
I look forward to watching y’all’s reactions everyday! I appreciate it and I’m not even sure why but I do know that you two are an awesome team with great chemistry and great personalities. Thanks guys!
“What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here” These 2 lines always pretty much summed up my entire life 😂 could not love this song more. Classic. Part of the soundtrack of my generation, and my youth…and sometimes my adulthood 🤣
Good reaction guys. Love how you looked at it from other possible angles...music's never about just one thing, and neither are the characters in songs. You hit it.
When it comes to music, I'm like Lex. But, when it comes to everything else, I am like Brad. I appreciate you both for who you are, not who others want you to be.
Radiohead is one of the great bands, but they're catalogue is all over the place if you didn't evolve with them over the years. You'll definitely like a lot of their early work, and their 3rd album OK Computer is truly one of the best of all time. One of my personal favs is "Let Down", so check that out.
Great album, so many class songs. My favourite tracks are probably No Surprises, Lucky and Exit Music (from a film) but it is like attempting to pick my favourite child.
Muse are amazing!!!! Listen to: Uprising, Plug in Baby, Knights of Cydonia, Hysteria, TIme is Running Out, Madness, They did an awesome cover of Nina Simone's "feeling good" AND SO MUCH MORE!!!! Oh and their live concerts are even better than their studio videos. Whenever possible should watch live!
Welcome to the very start of the extensive Radiohead catalog! These guys are genius and there is so much to explore! Enjoy the complex, layered instrumentations! Check out Airbag, Paranoid Android, Lucky, Just, No Surprises, 2+2=5, Bodysnatchers, the list goes on! (obviously, I'm a big fan, and love you guys as well!)
Love the way Radiohead takes it to the edge of crazy, loud emotion....and then drosp it back down to a quiet soulful sad place. Dramatic for a reason. Unrequited love, that isn't even expressed. Sad. [love Lex's take] The lyric is actually kinda ironic. His weirdness is not creepy. Lex is saying you don't need to have others acceptance. Be yourself (unless you are REALLY a creep) lol
@@anthonymanuge6237 yeah, I know (can see why you commented though) I couldn't name a single track off Pablo Honey other than Creep. The Bends is peak RH is all I was getting at.
Great breakdown Lex! You have a super open mind to all kinds of music and I can’t wait to see where you guys take your channel! I’d love to see you both tackle some old school country (Alan Jackson, George Strait, etc)
This song connects so much, I can feel his pain in the song, knowing how that feels to not be special, to not belong. To not feel good enough for the person you want so much to see you.
Love it, bang on lex. Lots of people I know are a higher quality person when they are feeling less self conscious, less in their own head, less worried about their own shit. Same person, better at picking up on social cues, noticing what those around them could use from them, when they are having a more self content kind of day. Same kindness, and a thousand times more effective distribution of it, and energy to do it. Some call it being present more simply put, and it just isn't easy for anyone to do that all the time. May be a better term, self conscious encompasses a lot and can be a very good thing of course. Though I'm not sure any description would nail it.
I think it sounds like a young man that likes a certain girl, but he has self esteem issues. He is fantasizing about being, in his eyes, more perfect so he doesn't get rejected by this girl he likes. I don't think it's all that complicated. He's going through typical teenage angst.
Please stop calling this teenage angst, depression and feelings of anxiety and insecurity can be felt in people of any age, not feeling adequate or good enough for a potential romantic partner is also not an exclusively teenage emotion
feeling creepy and weird isnt restricted to teens....im big and kinda off looking, but nice kind of a live and let live type....and if im walking down the road or whatever, if a girl starts walking ahead of me, i stop and pretend to check my phone.....if i keep walking behind her, her head goes down, and she starts walking faster....so i stop, check my phone and head across the street sometimes......i know she didnt mean to make me feel like a wierdo, shes alone and half my size, naturally she got scared....i dont like scaring people.....sorry
To take it past 19, he has elevated her value and simultaneously in comparison lowered his own. So to lighten the comment section mood a bit, by a show of hands(j/k), who has seen that knockout (to you) person out in public, and you didn’t even bother to say hello because they were just too (fill in the blank)? 😄 ✋🏾
Wow Lex is pretty smart. I just happened upon this channel from this reaction and you two are great. I'd draw the fine line between acceptable and unacceptable creepiness way before consensual cannibalism though.
I didnt care for that version at all. I dont know what it is, but ive noticed a lot in TV shows, they do this thing where they take a good song, and just get a girl and a piano to cover it slowed right down, and its really annoying. I mean come on, make an original song or make it your own ( not slowed down with a piano, because thats getting old real fast, make it really original ) stop just picking good old songs and putting a slow piano solo to it. Im all for covers, but not just by slowing it down with a piano trying to hit you in the feels. Just hits me in the annoyed.
@@myopicseer Really? Just because I didn't like, I must have no musical inclination? Not everyone likes the same type of music. You know that right? I don't have to like it to have taste. I'm sure there's some music I like that you wouldn't. But that neither gives me the right, or inclination to rag on you about it. Says more about you than my taste from that comment. No I didn't like it, big deal, I don't have to like it, and it says absolutely nothing about me except I don't like that cover. Judge me all you like, but you know Jack shit about me, but I know that you are quick to judge someone on what they may or may not like. That's pretty sad.
@@AgunziLFC It goes beyond taste. If art is merely judged by 'taste' then there is no such thing as great art., or great artists. If tapping a simple steady beat on a rock with a stick is something you say is great, and I say no, compared to Bach's complex compositions, that is idiocy, and you reply with, "Well, that's just your opinion. It comes down to taste.", then what sort of deranged, confused world have you decided to live in?
My son and his friends loved to play this on Rock Band, (or one of those type games). They had two singers and they’d really get into it 🤣🤣 I miss those days when they were young.
This song makes it into a lot of soundtracks. A really good one is Josh Duhamel singing it to a baby while Katherine Hegel looks shocked, in the movie "Life As We Know It." Other great tracks are Eddie Vedder's Just Breathe and L. Cohen's Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodby. Also, once you get past the first five minutes, it's a really funny movie about a man, a woman, and an orphan.
I have to get ready to go out, but I HAD to wait and see Lex's face when the chunky guitar kicked in. 🤣😂 BRAD, just be you, man. If you wanna analyze the shit out the songs, that's how you enjoy them.
For what it's worth I enjoy you Brad being super analytical while Lex floats on the vibes. You two complement each other very well and is one of the reasons I've subscribed. Keep it up! 🙂👍
I’m here for the reactions second, 1st for the amazing bond you two have. You are the perfect couple we all strive to be. I’m so happy and ridiculously jealous of what you have. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤❤
When I was in high school, I was kinda like the "creep". So I could highly relate. I don't have a perfect body, I'm thin, short, and nerdy. I didn't and couldn't wear fashionable clothes, and I was very socially awkward. There were a few girls back then I was enamored with. They all seemed out of my league, and they typically dated the guys playing sports, were handsome, pretty much the opposite of what I was. So like the song, you kind of work yourself into a fantasy in your head, but you know it won't play out like you hope it would. So it was a issue with wanting to be with someone you probably don't have a chance with, and how it just rots you to your core. I didn't have a very high self-esteem as well, so asking someone out was really, really tough. I guess it is like pulling out a Jenga block from the very bottom of the stack with very shaky hands level of self-risk. So it all becomes a self-eating cycle of want, self-denial, self-loathing, desire, loneliness, and depression that makes you miserable. Even the act of asking or testing the waters to see if there was a mutual interest took more out of me than I deemed worth the risk. It is just a miserable, and self-destructive place to be because you are not only denying yourself the chance, even if it is slim, but you are denying happiness, peace of mind, and you're not building mental and emotional strength. Confidence was key, but I had nothing to be confident about. Being a teenager was all kinds of hell for me. I graduated high school, got older, hopefully matured, and pretty much threw off that phase of my life off my shoulders. So by and large, I'm over it, but every now and then I think back to that time, and this song in particular reminds me. It doesn't remind me of the girls in particular, it's been a while so I forgot their names, but it reminds me of what I missed by not shooting my shot, by obsessing, and wasting all that time being miserable by my own making.
@@endonyxoneaudio8644 Being self aware has been something I've always tried to practice. I know where I am weak, I know where I am strong, I know how much ego to revel in, and I know how much humility I should have. It's not always perfect, but I try to know me better and better as the days go by.
Interpreting some of these songs on one listen can be difficult... You guys are doing a good job.... The song is about the feeling of not being worthy of someone you want to be with...
Oh dang! You guys need to check out Haley Reinhart's version with Post Modern Jukebox! It's one of the rare occasions that a cover outpaces the original for a classic like this.
Haley is beyond amazing, and Post Modern Jukebox is so good at doing covers in different styles. I love the original, but the cover is just as good for me.
Damn I been bingeing y'all's videos for almost 2 days and they just keep coming! Not complaining, but how many videos y'all make rrveryday? Good on you two! I'm loving the content and the varied genres, most I really love
Creep is about Thom being obsessed with a beautiful woman at Exeter… he was too intimidated to talk to her and wrote Creep instead… she attended one of his concerts and he was mortified😉
Oh Exeter… Oh the memories… 18yo me traveling abroad alone for first time… Listening precisely to this band among others… 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
The time I felt girly & pretty without the feeling of fraud for the first time.
I wasn’t a teen anymore, I was a young woman now, on my own out in a foreign world… For a Brazilian girl, from modest means… Wow… memories… 🥰🥰🥰
This song is for everyone that feels like an outsider
Really?? Did they ever hook up?
@@coffeetalk924 not that I know of but he had a panic attack after someone told him she was at the concert…
@@moxiedrapo2391 that's funny. Poor guy! She's gotta be flattered by that hit!
At 46 this song still makes me cry sometimes. The 90's Rocked Low Self Esteem.
Yep. Revenge of the Self-Diagnosing Nerds.
It was all the mdma and ketamine.
@@generalapathy6446 And depression that followed a weekend of MDMA/ket/partying, when you have to go back to reality
@@kdog909 ah, the Monday to Wednesday come down.....
I second that 🥺
“I want you to notice, when I’m not around”
That line always gets me. When you said he can sing, he really really can, and he can draw those emotions out of you. I hope you guys keep digging into their stuff bc it’s great. I’d recommend Fake Plastic Trees and The Bends to start off with.
Fake Plastic Trees meant so much to me as a teenager.
@@icefacade such a beautiful song, and really shows how great his voice his
Me too-that is my favorite line of the song. So powerful, so true, so relatable
Fake plastic trees…yes! And also High and Dry 😊
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This is the quintessential anthem for anyone who feels like they don't "fit in."
It's about that feeling of not being accepted for who you are. Not being comfortable in your own skin because of how the rest of the world thinks you should be...
Follow up with Beck's Loser and go straight to therapy.
@@jmotiff can't forget Green Day's Basket case.
The Smiths - There is a light
That bass holds everything together. Radiohead is a very important band and very varied in their approach.
The Greenwood brothers!
Radiohead was insanely influential to the alternative scene. Probably even more than Nirvana, imho.
Awesome groove.
@@Jaster832 yup, and electronic, or just "Art rock" in general. Creep is about as normal as it got for them... I think they aged like wine personally.
Lex has such brilliant intuition and feeling when dissecting a song ,but you both have great chemistry .good job both of you, respect.
"Creep" was their surprise hit when they were just starting out. They have some great songs on their next album, but I think the next Radiohead song you should play is "Paranoid Android", which shows the band really becoming the amazing weirdos they were meant to be.
Yes! I was just going to suggest Paranoid Android
I’d say Jools Holland performance in particular
@@ericlayton8888 dude, the Jools Holland performance of PA even caused my dad (50+ back then)to stop washing the damn cocoa cups and stand watching in awe with a teatowel on his shoulder. Especially the choral part. Don't think I ever saw him looking as gobsmacked!😅
It kills me that they basically disowned this song. I mean whatever beautiful musical statements they've made since, and there have been many, this song is an absolute arrow to the heart of all of us who've had unrequieted love. Not many people get to express that feeling to the masses in such a beautiful way. It's an anthem to the estranged, whether you like it or not Thom. Thank your for it regardless.
Heard them play it live so not disowned that much
@@johngriffiths118 ah, it’s just a comment of a person trying to be important . nevermind
At some point, some artist become divorced from their music. It is sad, just sad. I am thinking of Morrissey especially. He betrayed his music.
They just got tired of it because it got overplayed. But some distance and time doing other music eventually got them comfortable with playing it again as long as it didn't overshadow their other works.
Beautifully put sir. Dealing with some of those emotions right now and this really resonates with me deeply at the moment. Thank you.
Be you, Brad. Ignore the critics. Overanalyze away...do your thing and we'll pop the popcorn
The second verse about having control, a perfect body, etc.. It’s about him judging himself harshly, so he thinks the world does too.. So he stays home, alone, in control..
This song is literally just about feeling like a loser. It's really that simple.
It's like we all feel sometimes. We are united in our insecurities.
Nahh pal. There’s a whole story behind this. This song is based on an experience that Thom had before. It’s very personal to him.
@@joshuaguerra2651 Yes, and there are also stories about them ripping it off.Whatever the case may be.All that truly matters is how you relate to it or any other song.Music is all in ear of the beholder
@@joshuaguerra2651 In my humble opinion
Yeah, a study in insecurity. Nobody, except sociopaths, thinks they live up to their own egos completely. Excellent analysis. Great tune as well. Love the crescendos on the chorus.
Even people who don’t think they’ve heard this song before have still heard it and vaguely remembered it. What a legendary band.
Love both of you for who you are!I hope neither of you “dial back” or change anything.Beautiful people!
They are Amazing! 😀
Don't give up on lyrics Brad, you two are the perfect compliment between analyzing the song and feeling it (Brad and Lex respectively lol)
Very fun post song discussion. The chemistry between the both of you was really on display. A real pleasure to see.
The song is about his anxiety at being near someone beautiful. The calm section is his interaction with her. But the heavy rock guitar solo is the turmoil of his anxiety (Big up to Johnny Greenwood - Lead guitar).
"He sees that girl and she's like and angel." "but he feels unworthy of her beauty" . "so he feels like creep a weirdo a willow " etc etc.
Spot on...
I mean yeah.. not that hard to figure out lol
A Willow?
It's funny cause they mad analyze other songs that literally mean what they say, but songs that have amazing undertones they take for face value
Widow....
Early Radiohead was a revelation. They WERE special.
This song is the anthem for the outcast. It's the closest thing I've ever heard to putting what if feels like not to fit in into words. I WAS that kid. This song has always been special to me.
This has been my theme song since the 90s. Lex is right. To connect with ppl being a "creep" is friggin hard.
Brad, I like it when you hyper-analyze lyrics. That's what you are and nobody should tell you not to. It's not like it's a bad. I definitely analyze lyrics. I also headbang like Lex, and I love when she does that. The two things are not mutually exclusive, so I do both, but whatever each of you like to naturally do, do it. It's your channel, not ours. :)
exactly! I get it, because I'm definitely a combination of the two and I can relate to both of them just like you said. I love how genuine these two are.
I enjoy your reactions because they seem very authentic and unscripted. Plus your both unique in different, but complimentary ways. ✌♥️
Never ever would I have thought I would find myself addicted to a reaction channel, but I can't get enough of y'all checking out the music from my youth. Ya'll may be my favorite people on TH-cam, for real. THanks for what you do.
Totally the same. Reaction videos. Who cares. I don't want to see people sat watching videos. I've seen loads of them. And then I see these guys, and I can't stop watching. Very likeable guys. Love it. Genuine guys. Keep it up. 👍👍👍👍👍
You should do The Offspring - self esteem, the kids aren’t all right, gone away, pretty fly.. to name a few! Love what you guys do!!!!
Yes yes yes!!
yeah that would be dope
Definitely!
Omg their entire catalog is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
And hammerhead
I am not a massive Radiohead fan, but this means so much to me; it was released just before I went to to university (college) and it totally expressed how I felt about that time.
This song is universally human. All of us are sad, insecure or afraid sometimes.
“Whatever makes you happy.... whatever you want...🖤”
I went out and bought this cd after I heard this song on the radio, an amazing album, one of my favorites. I hope you do more, they have so much music.
I loved this song from the very first time I ever heard it ... and evidently lots of people felt the same way, since it became an anthem for an entire generation.
LOVE Radiohead...Tom Yorke's voice is unmatched and so original as well as Johnny Greenwood's guitar playing of course! thx for sharing Brad & Lex :)
One of the most influential, undoubtedly powerful bands.
Radiohead are one of the best bands of our generation. PLEASE react to more of their stuff. So much amazing stuff to dive into. I'd suggest Fake Plastic Trees.
This song by Radiohead is popular so that's why you may have heard it. It's been in show and movies and plenty of people have covered it!
It's a song about being in love and how this can actually be a painful anxious experience that preys on our neuroses and insecurities. She's so amazing and I don't measure up. She can't truly like me, because its just me. Everyone who see's us together can see how far beneath her I am - they must be laughing. Maybe I'll just sabotage it now to save myself the pain I'll feel later.
this song is about how about at least 50% of the male population feels on any given day.
Thanks for saying it.
Would absolutely love to see you guys react to “people are strange” by The Doors
I Agree
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019. An amazing band! I have been a fan from the start. The best catalog of music to react to. My favorite albums are in Rainbows, Ok Computer , and Moon Shaped Pool.
No love for the Bends?
Mine’s Kid A, the great album of all time IMO
@@vigothecarpathian5501 I do, love the Bends. I think for me personally, the other albums I connected with differently
@@vigothecarpathian5501 High and Dry, Street Spirit Fade Out, Fake Plastic Trees, Killer Cars and Blackstar. For sure the Bends is one of their best. Even B-sides of Thinking about You (Pablo Honey) . Ok Computer was their breakout album for sure, but the material preceeding was just as brilliant. But John Valverde is right also, we experience all things subjectivley \m/
Bro I just can't how can someone bop to this song I'm literally shaking crying every time..
Every man needs a woman that looks at him the way lex looks at Brad, and he doesn't even notice haha. 💞🤘
Lex is gorgeous, with all respects
I’m sure he notices. You can tell they’re comfy around each other, big time
They look at each other that way. They are so sweet together.
Lex is a genuine ten; she's got looks and personality. Brad is a six. At best. Brad must have BDE. Like Porfirio Rubirosa levels of BDE. That's the only explanation for the sustainability of their relationship. :)
@@jhamler1 You match this song perfectly
Music is emotional...you nailed it! I love your guys reactions, music has to move me, no matter what emotion it creates. It has to move me.
Radiohead is the greatest band ever. This song was just the beginning of their career. It gets a lot better.
You two compliment each other. Great reaction team!!
Johnny Greenwood is my favorite guitarist of all time….even in the later stuff where his guitar is on the floor and he’s playing with wires….absolutely visionary IMO.
And Thom York packs a terrifying amount of emotion into his voice.
Check out Knives Out for a more “robust” vibe.
Ooooo me too! I love Johnny Greenwood ❤️.
I have always felt Johnny Greenwood is completely underrated and not enough people talk about him.
Never heard Ritchie Blackmore then
Great break down of the meaning of the song Lex. This song does speak strongly to so many who aren't "perfect."
The mainstream popularity of this particular track has and always will overshadow the actual legacy and evolution as influential musicians of the 00's
... this was a mid 90's song.
Lex dropping her crazy wisdom is a joy to experience. I love you guys!
I personally like how Brad looks for the meaning of the songs and what it's about and how Lex is more about the way it sounds and makes her feel
The guitar is like starting a bike. Thanks Brad and Lex.
The song is timeless. It’ll never age.
Lex, you always seem to nail these interpretations pretty well.
Radiohead is one of the goats.. best in their class just like Floyd or Tool.
never agreed with a comment more.
@@WookieWarriorz Glad someone understands me.. I've always felt that Radiohead and Tool are an extension or continuation of Floyd.. But both sides of the coin.
@@serfillustrated4018 you are one pretentious dude
Yeah but Radiohead are 100x better than Tool.
@@dickmonkey-king1271 dude?
This song has been on like so many movies, some commercials i think, amvs, a few games, just all around.
the way she says, "it's so chill" is the charmingest shit EVER
It's fun watching the two of you blossom into rocksters! Feeling the different vibes.. So many miss out from not having an open mind
"he wants a girlfriend" I fucking lost it lol
Creep takes me back to 1993 when I went to live in Austin for the summer. I met so many people and had a great time.
Every single album Radiohead has ever released is entirely different than the last. They’re one of the greatest bands to ever exist and each member, individually, are one of the best musicians to ever walk the Earth. I listen to their album ‘In Rainbows’ and ‘OK Computer’ from start to finish at least once every week.
Jeezs one of the best tunes ever
Anyone could have heard this song before, and wouldn't have known there was an original. It's been covered by just about every pop artist out there.
If you ever watch America's got talent. The singers there will also do this song a lot. It's a classic I guess you could say. That resonates with a lot of people.
You should check out the cover by post modern jukebox. It's really good. 🙂
The “Original” is “Air that I breathe” by The Hollies, which Creep totally and utterly rips off, to the extent that the Hollies song writers are credited as co-writers (after a court case).
@@SvenTviking Sure bud but they actually aren't credited. You do realize that creep literally is based on a true story and it's something Thom Yorke did himself right??
I look forward to watching y’all’s reactions everyday! I appreciate it and I’m not even sure why but I do know that you two are an awesome team with great chemistry and great personalities. Thanks guys!
“What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here”
These 2 lines always pretty much summed up my entire life 😂 could not love this song more. Classic. Part of the soundtrack of my generation, and my youth…and sometimes my adulthood 🤣
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So why are you here if you don’t belong here? 🤔
same here never really belonged.
Yep. "I don't belong here" are definitely the sentiments of all of my fellow introverts.
Good reaction guys. Love how you looked at it from other possible angles...music's never about just one thing, and neither are the characters in songs. You hit it.
When it comes to music, I'm like Lex. But, when it comes to everything else, I am like Brad. I appreciate you both for who you are, not who others want you to be.
Lex is so smart. She really gets things. Very good job. I appreciate it.
Radiohead is one of the great bands, but they're catalogue is all over the place if you didn't evolve with them over the years. You'll definitely like a lot of their early work, and their 3rd album OK Computer is truly one of the best of all time. One of my personal favs is "Let Down", so check that out.
Great album, so many class songs. My favourite tracks are probably No Surprises, Lucky and Exit Music (from a film) but it is like attempting to pick my favourite child.
In rainbows is one of the best albums of all time.
Don’t get sentimental :)
I saw them open for REM in Dallas back in the day. That was an amazing show.
If you like Radiohead I would recommend Muse as well. Matt Bellamy the lead singer has a lot of qualities similar to Thom Yorke.
Second this. Suggestions: Muscle Museum, Showbiz. New Born, Hysteria
@@tengkuamsyar2120 Citizen Erased.
Knights of cedonia muse
Micro cuts - Muse
Muse are amazing!!!! Listen to: Uprising, Plug in Baby, Knights of Cydonia, Hysteria, TIme is Running Out, Madness, They did an awesome cover of Nina Simone's "feeling good" AND SO MUCH MORE!!!! Oh and their live concerts are even better than their studio videos. Whenever possible should watch live!
Welcome to the very start of the extensive Radiohead catalog! These guys are genius and there is so much to explore! Enjoy the complex, layered instrumentations! Check out Airbag, Paranoid Android, Lucky, Just, No Surprises, 2+2=5, Bodysnatchers, the list goes on! (obviously, I'm a big fan, and love you guys as well!)
Love the way Radiohead takes it to the edge of crazy, loud emotion....and then drosp it back down to a quiet soulful sad place. Dramatic for a reason. Unrequited love, that isn't even expressed. Sad. [love Lex's take] The lyric is actually kinda ironic. His weirdness is not creepy. Lex is saying you don't need to have others acceptance. Be yourself (unless you are REALLY a creep) lol
i always watch your reactions when i’m at work, best reaction channel for me tbh
Ah this takes me back, The Bends album should be in everyones collection/playlist! Hope you do other songs from this. :)
The Bends is one of my favorites, but "Creep" is from Pablo Honey.
Agree - good material from this album. I nominate Planet Telex
@@anthonymanuge6237 yeah, I know (can see why you commented though) I couldn't name a single track off Pablo Honey other than Creep. The Bends is peak RH is all I was getting at.
@@adammorris3589 Me either, it is the only good track on the album. It was really their awakening and them creating really good songs.
@@adammorris3589 The Bends is not peak Radiohead lol. Close to it, though.
This is one of the greatest 90s bands!!! The more you do by this band, the more you will be amazed! Karma Police is my recommendation
Great breakdown Lex! You have a super open mind to all kinds of music and I can’t wait to see where you guys take your channel! I’d love to see you both tackle some old school country (Alan Jackson, George Strait, etc)
This song connects so much, I can feel his pain in the song, knowing how that feels to not be special, to not belong. To not feel good enough for the person you want so much to see you.
This song has been covered by many artists. Prince did a fine rendition.
Jim Carey did too haha
Love it, bang on lex. Lots of people I know are a higher quality person when they are feeling less self conscious, less in their own head, less worried about their own shit. Same person, better at picking up on social cues, noticing what those around them could use from them, when they are having a more self content kind of day. Same kindness, and a thousand times more effective distribution of it, and energy to do it. Some call it being present more simply put, and it just isn't easy for anyone to do that all the time. May be a better term, self conscious encompasses a lot and can be a very good thing of course. Though I'm not sure any description would nail it.
i like how brad keeps track of the meaning while lex keeps track of the feeling. dont dial it back
It's about being weird and outside of what society accepts what you should be. This song is my anthem.
I think it sounds like a young man that likes a certain girl, but he has self esteem issues. He is fantasizing about being, in his eyes, more perfect so he doesn't get rejected by this girl he likes. I don't think it's all that complicated. He's going through typical teenage angst.
Please stop calling this teenage angst, depression and feelings of anxiety and insecurity can be felt in people of any age, not feeling adequate or good enough for a potential romantic partner is also not an exclusively teenage emotion
@@brianq2558 true
@@brianq2558 amen to that, it doesn't just disappear on your 20th birthday, it can follow you through life
feeling creepy and weird isnt restricted to teens....im big and kinda off looking, but nice kind of a live and let live type....and if im walking down the road or whatever, if a girl starts walking ahead of me, i stop and pretend to check my phone.....if i keep walking behind her, her head goes down, and she starts walking faster....so i stop, check my phone and head across the street sometimes......i know she didnt mean to make me feel like a wierdo, shes alone and half my size, naturally she got scared....i dont like scaring people.....sorry
To take it past 19, he has elevated her value and simultaneously in comparison lowered his own. So to lighten the comment section mood a bit, by a show of hands(j/k), who has seen that knockout (to you) person out in public, and you didn’t even bother to say hello because they were just too (fill in the blank)? 😄 ✋🏾
Wow Lex is pretty smart. I just happened upon this channel from this reaction and you two are great.
I'd draw the fine line between acceptable and unacceptable creepiness way before consensual cannibalism though.
YOU HAVE TO HEAR the cover of this by HALEY RHINEHART and Post Modern Jukebox. It is incredible.
I watched another vocal coach The charismatic Voice react to this song. She was orgasming. It was wild.
I didnt care for that version at all. I dont know what it is, but ive noticed a lot in TV shows, they do this thing where they take a good song, and just get a girl and a piano to cover it slowed right down, and its really annoying. I mean come on, make an original song or make it your own ( not slowed down with a piano, because thats getting old real fast, make it really original ) stop just picking good old songs and putting a slow piano solo to it. Im all for covers, but not just by slowing it down with a piano trying to hit you in the feels. Just hits me in the annoyed.
@@AgunziLFC If you didn't care for the version by Haley, well, you have no musical inclination at all. She is pure talent.
@@myopicseer Really? Just because I didn't like, I must have no musical inclination? Not everyone likes the same type of music. You know that right? I don't have to like it to have taste. I'm sure there's some music I like that you wouldn't. But that neither gives me the right, or inclination to rag on you about it. Says more about you than my taste from that comment.
No I didn't like it, big deal, I don't have to like it, and it says absolutely nothing about me except I don't like that cover. Judge me all you like, but you know Jack shit about me, but I know that you are quick to judge someone on what they may or may not like. That's pretty sad.
@@AgunziLFC It goes beyond taste. If art is merely judged by 'taste' then there is no such thing as great art., or great artists. If tapping a simple steady beat on a rock with a stick is something you say is great, and I say no, compared to Bach's complex compositions, that is idiocy, and you reply with, "Well, that's just your opinion. It comes down to taste.", then what sort of deranged, confused world have you decided to live in?
My son and his friends loved to play this on Rock Band, (or one of those type games). They had two singers and they’d really get into it 🤣🤣 I miss those days when they were young.
RadioHead is our Beatles, they changed the history and sound of music, absolute geniuses.
This song makes it into a lot of soundtracks. A really good one is Josh Duhamel singing it to a baby while Katherine Hegel looks shocked, in the movie "Life As We Know It." Other great tracks are Eddie Vedder's Just Breathe and L. Cohen's Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodby. Also, once you get past the first five minutes, it's a really funny movie about a man, a woman, and an orphan.
I have to get ready to go out, but I HAD to wait and see Lex's face when the chunky guitar kicked in. 🤣😂
BRAD, just be you, man. If you wanna analyze the shit out the songs, that's how you enjoy them.
For what it's worth I enjoy you Brad being super analytical while Lex floats on the vibes. You two complement each other very well and is one of the reasons I've subscribed. Keep it up! 🙂👍
You have to react Paranoid Android by Radiohead
There's an unbelievable live performance on the Jools Holland show
The did an incredible performance of Wierd Fishes on Jools too
One of my favorite songs from the 90s.
There are alot of covers of Creep, but no one beats Radiohead
I’m here for the reactions second, 1st for the amazing bond you two have. You are the perfect couple we all strive to be. I’m so happy and ridiculously jealous of what you have. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤❤
When I was in high school, I was kinda like the "creep". So I could highly relate. I don't have a perfect body, I'm thin, short, and nerdy. I didn't and couldn't wear fashionable clothes, and I was very socially awkward. There were a few girls back then I was enamored with. They all seemed out of my league, and they typically dated the guys playing sports, were handsome, pretty much the opposite of what I was. So like the song, you kind of work yourself into a fantasy in your head, but you know it won't play out like you hope it would. So it was a issue with wanting to be with someone you probably don't have a chance with, and how it just rots you to your core. I didn't have a very high self-esteem as well, so asking someone out was really, really tough. I guess it is like pulling out a Jenga block from the very bottom of the stack with very shaky hands level of self-risk. So it all becomes a self-eating cycle of want, self-denial, self-loathing, desire, loneliness, and depression that makes you miserable. Even the act of asking or testing the waters to see if there was a mutual interest took more out of me than I deemed worth the risk. It is just a miserable, and self-destructive place to be because you are not only denying yourself the chance, even if it is slim, but you are denying happiness, peace of mind, and you're not building mental and emotional strength. Confidence was key, but I had nothing to be confident about. Being a teenager was all kinds of hell for me.
I graduated high school, got older, hopefully matured, and pretty much threw off that phase of my life off my shoulders. So by and large, I'm over it, but every now and then I think back to that time, and this song in particular reminds me. It doesn't remind me of the girls in particular, it's been a while so I forgot their names, but it reminds me of what I missed by not shooting my shot, by obsessing, and wasting all that time being miserable by my own making.
This is spooky how accurate this also describes my past experiences ! You've done some decent exploration of self haven't you ;-) #goodstuff
@@endonyxoneaudio8644 Being self aware has been something I've always tried to practice. I know where I am weak, I know where I am strong, I know how much ego to revel in, and I know how much humility I should have. It's not always perfect, but I try to know me better and better as the days go by.
Awesome song...powerful emotional chords and superb voice.
Interpreting some of these songs on one listen can be difficult... You guys are doing a good job.... The song is about the feeling of not being worthy of someone you want to be with...
Everyone of your videos I watch I just realize how much Lex can read these songs. Great job Lex!
This song was about a girl he liked in college and she didnt give him any attention
Love when they sway back and forth together.
Oh dang! You guys need to check out Haley Reinhart's version with Post Modern Jukebox! It's one of the rare occasions that a cover outpaces the original for a classic like this.
1,000% this.
I agree that you need to listen to Creep by Postmodern Jukebox featuring Haley Reinhart!
Haley is beyond amazing, and Post Modern Jukebox is so good at doing covers in different styles. I love the original, but the cover is just as good for me.
One of the few times I would recommend the live video over the album. It's AMAZING!
You have to hear Post Modern Jukebox's cover. The vocals are out of this world!
That's the video that got me hooked on watching reactors!!!
Absolutely. Haley Reinhart KILLS this one.
I am 63 now and my son asked if I would take him to Oxford to see them live - well I have been hooked ever since
The Postmodern Jukebox version of this is quite different and would love to see your reaction.
Yes! Many people feel the PMJ version is better in a very different way. Easy on the eyes too.
Damn I been bingeing y'all's videos for almost 2 days and they just keep coming! Not complaining, but how many videos y'all make rrveryday? Good on you two! I'm loving the content and the varied genres, most I really love