{"id":256617,"date":"2025-11-02T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:46:14","slug":"creep-lyrics-meaning-radioheads-classic-song-goes-viral-again-ed-obrien-lyrics-music-radiohead-thom-yorke-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-pho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256617\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Creep\u2019 Lyrics & Meaning: Radiohead\u2019s Classic Song Goes Viral Again! | Ed O\u2019Brien, Lyrics, Music, Radiohead, Thom Yorke | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radiohead<\/a>\u2018s \u201cCreep\u201d is creeping up the Genius charts!<\/p>\n

The Thom Yorke<\/a>-fronted band\u2019s 1992 classic is once again proving popular around the world, climbing up the Top 10 chart on Genius<\/a> as fans look up the lyrics to the modern classic.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cCreep\u201d was the debut single from Radiohead, released on their 1993 album Pablo Honey.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m a creep \/ I\u2019m a weirdo \/ What the hell am I doin\u2019 here? \/ I don\u2019t belong here,\u201d Thom sings.<\/p>\n

As for whether it was inspired by a certain someone?<\/p>\n

\u201cHmm\u2026I\u2019ll now just say yes to that, because I\u2019ll 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\u2013ked up and wanted to leave and do proper things with my life like be in a rock band,\u201d he revealed back<\/a> in 1992.<\/p>\n

Thom would later explain the song\u2019s sentiment in another interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a real problem being a man in the \u201990s\u2026 any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem,\u201d Thom explained years ago of the song\u2019s meaning, via Far Out Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you\u2019re in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do\u2026 It comes back to the music we write, which is not effeminate, but it\u2019s not brutal in its arrogance. It is one of the things I\u2019m always trying: To assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thom later admitted<\/a> that he \u201cwasn\u2019t very happy with the lyrics; I thought they were pretty crap.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band later grew to resent the song\u2019s success. Ed O\u2019Brien<\/a> said:<\/a> \u201cThere 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

They would famously not play the song live for entire tours, only bringing it out on special occasions on and off.<\/p>\n

Despite the band\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Listen to \u201cCreep\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the lyrics to \u201cCreep\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radiohead\u2018s \u201cCreep\u201d is creeping up the Genius charts! The Thom Yorke-fronted band\u2019s 1992 classic is once again proving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-256617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}