X - Acerca de observações sobre a presença de sugestão niilista em músicas do Radiohead.

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EXISTEM CANÇÕES. (Legião Urbana, no encarte do álbum As quatro estações)



Quando ouço Street Spirit (Fade Out) tennho a sensação que a história da música pop chegou ao seu clímax. Passado e futuro convergem para essa que deve ser a música mais obscura, triste e desesperada jamais feita. O videoclip também é um dos melhores que já surgiram.

radiohead - street spirit (fade out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPX3u0XJzKM


Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out

This machine will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love.

O indivíduo, cansado, desajustado, sem sonhos ou utopias, deixa-se levar por sonhos niilistas (Our bodies are floating dow a muddy river, que é mencionado em Like Spinnig Plates) de desvanecimento (fade out).
Creio que o significado de "imersa a sua alma no amor" é o de "abandone o seu ego", o que ,por sua vez, leva ao desvanecimento do indivíduo através da sua fusão com o meio.
Street Spirit fala do desvanecimento, e nisso se aproxima de How to disappear completely, que mimetiza a vertigem que o depressivo sente (se você é um, sabe do que eu estou falando), mesma vertigem que é descrita em Like Spinnig Plates.

Radiohead How To Disappear Completely (perfect audio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq9t2FFh6LA

Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM


While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance

And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates

Our bodies are floating down a muddy river

Somente as músicas do Radiohead conseguem chegar perto de expressar os sentimentos de tristeza e estranheza que eu sinto. Uma ou outra música de seus “filhos”(Colplay, Keane, Travis, Muse, etc.)consegue, também, chegar a esse mesmo nível de expressão. Perceba que eu disse “chegar perto de expressar”; nem mesmo Street Spirit é triste o suficiente, nem Idioteque é estranha o bastante.




Outros exemplos de "sugestão niilista" em Radiohead:

*Creep
(...)
You're so fucking special,
I wish I was special,
But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here(Esses dois últimos versos são totalmente outsiders. O "aqui" se refere à própria vida, ao próprio mundo.)

*Planet Telex
(...)
But still everything is broken,
Everyone is broken.
Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?

*Fake Plast Trees
(...)
It wears her out, it wears her out
(...)
And it wears him out, it wears him out
(...)
And it wears me out, it wears me out

*Subterranean Homesiack Alien
(...)
They're all uptight Uptight.. (x7) [!]
(...)
I'd tell all my friends But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right All right..
I'm just uptight Uptight.. (x9) [!!]
*Let donw
(...)
Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental,
it always ends up drivel.
One day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and
let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.
Let down,
Let down,
Let down.
(...)

*Karma Police
(...)
Karma Police, I've given all I can, it's not enough
I've given all I can, but we're still on the payroll
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

*The National Anthem
Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
What's going on?
What's going on?

Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on

*In Limbo
(...)
You live in a fantasy world
You Live in a fantasy world
I'm lost at sea
dont bother me
I've lost my way
I've lost my way
You're living in a fantasy world (x3)
This Most Beautiful world
(...)(Aqui "fantasy world" remete ao "coud cuckoo land" de "Like Spinning Plates". A figura se repete em "Where I end and you begin": "I am up in the clouds/ And I can't and I can't come down".)

*Idioteque
(...)
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I
(...)
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening happening
(...)

*I Might be Wrong
(...)
I used to think
I used to think
There was no future left at all
I used to think
(...)
It's nothing at all
Nothing at all
Dollars and cents
(...)
I can see out of here

All of the planet's dead,
All over the planet, so let me out of here
All over...

*We are the dollars and cents
And the pounds and pence
And the mark and the yen, and yeah
We're going to crack your little souls
(…)

*Bodysnatchers
(...)
I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
(...)
Has the light gone out for you?
'Cause the light's gone out for me
It is the 21st century
It is the 21st century

You can fight it like a dog
And they brought me to my knees
They got scared and they put me in
They got scared and they put me in

All the lies run around my face
All the lies run around my face
And for anyone else to see
And for anyone else to see I'm alive

I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
Nude
Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
(...)

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Tempore, quo cognitio simul advenit, amor e medio supersurrexit.