Friday's Lesson: Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Check out the video below.

Below is the background info on the track...

Have a scan through and look at the level of detail... Look at one of your own, favourite, videos and research it. What is it about? What do YOU think it's about? Who directed it. What else did they direct? Are they as good? Is the directer affieliated to a specific band or label?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk


"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (commonly referred to as "Street Spirit") is a song by Radiohead, featured on their second studio album The Bends, which was released in 1995. Noted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Thom Yorke as "one of [the band's] saddest songs" and describing it as "the dark tunnel without the light at the end", "Street Spirit" was released as the band's ninth single and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, the highest chart position the band achieved until "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer, which reached number three in 1997.
Yorke has suggested that the song was inspired by the 1991 novel The Famished Road, written by Ben Okri, and that its music was inspired by R.E.M.

The black-and-white music video for "Street Spirit" was filmed during two nights in a desert just outside Los Angeles. It premiered in February 1996 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who said, "That was definitely a turning point in my own work. I knew when I finished that, because they found their own voices as an artist, at that point, I felt like I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value. That for me was a key moment." Glazer would later direct the video for "Karma Police".

Youtubers commented:
For me, this song could have had two meanings- firstly, it may have been a statement on the absolute despairs of depression- the sense of disconnectedness, the warped sense of detachment and time, where things happen about you but you're uninvolved- a sense that time around you is moving slowly; unresponsiveness and dull noir.
Secondly, everyone within this clip is trying to be beautiful in some way; but attempts of liberality fail, and they fall to the ground. They attempt to ascend, but fall.