Radiohead - Knives Out

Director: Michel Gondry
Art Direction: Pierre Pell
Cinematographer: Jean-Louis Bompoint
Production Company: Partizan
Commissioner: Dilly Gent

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[MoldoonTube]

This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to what a dream looks (feels?) like ; in TV or movies, dreams are usually depicted as linear, even when they’re supposed to be “weird” in the context of the story. Hope that makes sense; I love this song.

[alejandrocoronado]

Fun fact, the female actor in this is actually the wife to the main illustrator from the gorillaz, Jamie Hewlet

[Kain]

Radiohead: **writes depressing song about someone leaving their family and cannibalism**
Also Radiohead: *S K E L E T O N P L A Y I N G G U I T A R*

[annachernikova]

I've just watched "Knives Out" 2019 and this song was playing in my head during the whole movie.

[memondayz]

I get this song is sad but I really can’t help but laugh when he looks down and his feet are rotisserie chickens with a family around and then the look on his face is brilliant

[OnYouGlenn]

these dudes are just insanely talented

[epickipkip]

I wouldn't be very surprised if one day Thom Yorke would just walk up the stage and say "to be honest guys, there is no real meaning behind our music. We just like weird things."

[joshualeibow]

You know an artist is genius simply
by the fact you can have a song like this playing in your head for over a week and not get sick of it. On the contrary, it’s a deep emotional experience every time.

[sillyclown]

amnesiac is such a underrated album it’s honestly my favourite

[ryansample]

Lyrics:

I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look in to my eyes
I'm not coming back

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog
They would've drowned you at birth

Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

[Maksus]

When I'm feel myself depressed, Radiohead makes me feel good, when I'm feeling good, Radiohead throw me back to depression.
Love this guys

[daniilromanenko]

"If you'd been a dog, they would've drowned you at birth." Damn, that's brutal

[thebreakfastmenu]

Michel Gondry is famous for doing as much as he can on screen, without any kind of post production trickery.

He really brought a skeleton to life and taught it how to play guitar and shrunk Thom down into a mouse/microphone hybrid for this music video.

[apollo_gen]

This song perfectly captures insomnia imo. There's something about the instrumentation and the reverb on Thoms voice that sonically represents the feeling of being up at 3am.

[missnotofthisworld]

If I caught a mouse that looked like Thom Yorke I would nurture it and love it.

[sugma]

The "Knives Out" music video was directed by Michel Gondry. Gondry was going through a breakup at the time, and expressed his feelings in the video concept, which has Yorke grieving in a hospital room. Gondry described the collaboration as a "terrible experience", and said: "I showed [Yorke] a storyboard and every single detail: he was completely excited and happy for it – and then, it turned out, they all criticise me for being selfish and putting my own views on it and my own introspection ... It did not go smoothly, but if it went smoothly, it would be mediocre."[8]

[zzHackedTutorialzz]

Very similar chords to Paranoid Android's intro, however a completely different song. Both are great :)

[KJT]

It's weird how if you don't actually read the lyrics to Radiohead songs, you can make up the weirdest shit on your own.

[samikalastaja]

2:25 this part sounds incredibly nostalgic. I have no idea why. Something about the melody.

[CapsUnlocked]

Everyone is commenting about how "weird" the video is. And that's what they wanted, they wanted the video to be funny and weird to cover up how sad the song/video both are. If you look past the goofy things and look at the big picture, it's really depressing. This may be one of the saddest music videos I've ever seen.