![]() ![]() In Fight Club, Tyler Durden looks at an advertisement for men's undergarments and says “That what a man looks like?” However, this line doesn’t promote working out to maintain a good person image and giving you a good sense of accomplishment but rather forces you into conformity. This is how you become ‘Fitter and Happier’. “Regular Exercise at the gym (3 days a week)” This is the song that would echo from speakers across the nation in an ideal dystopia. ![]() That is the theme for the rest of the song. These are just fake words to gain the trust of the people and take more control of power. Like something Squealer from George Orwell’s Animal Farm would tell the animals. Not just because it’s being narrated by a synthetic voice but also because it sounds like something an oppressor would tell you to keep you from the truth. The song opens with the title and it immediately feels a little off. Sam Steele calls the lyrics “the hum of a world buzzing with words, one of the messages seeming to be that we live in such a synthetic universe we have grown unable to detect reality from artifice.” Thom himself considers the lyrics ‘the most upsetting thing he has ever ever written” and it is easy to see why. The lyrics work as imagery of corporate lifestyles and social values in the modern world. The lyrics are spoken from a Macintosh SimpleText application by the synthesised voice Fred, which Thom described as “the most emotional voice he heard in ages.” It’s ironic that the voice for this song about anti-consumerist attitude comes from a Macintosh considering the symbol of late stage capitalism Apple has now become. Thom Yorke wrote the lyrics after a writer’s block and himself describes the song as a checklist of slogans for the 1990s. It is a song that is modified through audio effects and tape manipulation to sound rustic or strange on purpose. So why was this song included on this otherwise brilliant album at such an important place?įitter Happier is a ‘Musique Concrete’ song, which means it's a composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material. It barely counts as a song, is extremely soulless and it almost feels depressed. ![]() That is the opening song of the second side of Radiohead’s 1997 album, OK Computer, ‘Fitter Happier’, and it sounds awful. ![]()
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