Radiohead‘s “Creep” is creeping up the Genius charts!
The Thom Yorke-fronted band’s 1992 classic is once again proving popular around the world, climbing up the Top 10 chart on Genius as fans look up the lyrics to the modern classic.
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“Creep” was the debut single from Radiohead, released on their 1993 album Pablo Honey.
“But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doin’ here? / I don’t belong here,” Thom sings.
As for whether it was inspired by a certain someone?
“Hmm…I’ll now just say yes to that, because I’ll get into trouble. Yeah. It was a pretty strange period in my life. When I was at college and stuff and I was really f–ked up and wanted to leave and do proper things with my life like be in a rock band,” he revealed back in 1992.
Thom would later explain the song’s sentiment in another interview.
“I have a real problem being a man in the ’90s… any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem,” Thom explained years ago of the song’s meaning, via Far Out Magazine.
“To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you’re in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do… It comes back to the music we write, which is not effeminate, but it’s not brutal in its arrogance. It is one of the things I’m always trying: To assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it.”
Thom later admitted that he “wasn’t very happy with the lyrics; I thought they were pretty crap.”
The band later grew to resent the song’s success. Ed O’Brien said: “There was a point where we seemed to being living out the same four-and-a-half minutes of our lives over and over again. It was incredibly stultifying.”
They would famously not play the song live for entire tours, only bringing it out on special occasions on and off.
Despite the band’s rocky relationship with the song that shot them to superstardom, it continues to become a beloved favorite, and new fans continue to find the song each day.
Listen to “Creep”…
Read the lyrics to “Creep”…