“I am born again” referring to you getting a new life so-to-speak through anonymous social media and the fast car he refers to in the song could apply to life going downhill, the airbag which saves his life being this anonymous social media platform where he is able to live a new life for a short period of time. While ‘Airbag’ is about a car accident Thom Yorke was in, time has treated this album so well that it can honestly be applied to society’s prevalent use of anonymous social media. Thom Yorke was wary of this future and advised against it across this album. It’s an incredibly forward-thinking album with its lyrical themes predicting what is happening in current day society. That word, despite the many computer themes that can be found throughout the lyrics and in the title, is: Human.Īcross OK Computer, there is a perpetuating theme of highlighting a future society’s addiction to technology and the many mental downsides that may come with that. Finally, I think I can describe the album in one word. I needed the perfect description but time and time again I was stumped.

Very few albums have immediately struck me as a masterpiece after first listen the only ones I can truly think of are To Pimp A Butterfly, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Loveless, Mount Eerie, You Won’t Get What You Want, Pink, and OK Computer. It’s a record I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive review that is good enough for this amazing album since I first listened to it a month ago. A vision of Radiohead’s true opus OK Computer. Before Radiohead made the biggest musical left-turn in history (there's a pipe bomb in your mailbox) with Kid A, before Thom Yorke’s eventual divorce which lead to the making of A Moon Shaped Pool, before Radiohead achieved 3 of the top 4 albums on this website- there was a vision.

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