{"id":800257,"date":"2026-10-12T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:46:12","slug":"the-band-radioheads-thom-yorke-called-the-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800257\/","title":{"rendered":"The band Radiohead’s Thom Yorke called the “antichrist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Radiohead<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ Radiohead \/ Tom Sheehan<\/p>\n

Mon 12 October 2026 13:08, UK <\/p>\n

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke<\/a> has constantly fought against the mainstream throughout his career, somewhat hellbent on following his own script. Rather than adapting his art to cater to demands, Yorke adopts a love-it-or-loathe-it approach, which continues to reap rich rewards for his work.<\/p>\n

Although many bands would have tried to follow a specific formula if they\u2019d tasted success like Radiohead did with \u2018Creep\u2019, the group instead shunned the track. They didn\u2019t want one song to define their career and reinvented themselves on their experimental next album, The Bends. With each project, the Oxfordshire band have pushed boundaries and consistently refused to bow down to expectations.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Radiohead faced some consequences for its defiant actions, but undoubtedly, it has paid off in the long term. While OK Computer<\/a> was lauded as a masterpiece, it commercially flopped in the United States, largely due to the lack of radio play of the singles. However, the band had already prepared for this inevitable conclusion before the album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

At the time, the state of rock and the wider musical landscape was a source of discomfort for Yorke, who felt like an outlier. Radiohead never attempted to fit into a scene, with the singer telling\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0in 1997: \u201cWe don\u2019t fit the format. Fucking obvious. No Doubt fit the format, and we don\u2019t. That, to me, is a kind of bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their choice of lead single rather backed him up. \u2018Paranoid Android\u2019 ran for more than six minutes, moving between acoustic unease, snarling guitars and a choral passage instead of offering an obvious chorus to hang everything on. Before its release, Colin Greenwood told NME that they weren\u2019t going to cut it down for radio, even if that meant stations wouldn\u2019t play it. <\/p>\n

\"Thom<\/a>Credit: Far Out \/ YouTube Still<\/p>\n

It was a fairly stubborn way to introduce a record, but the song would have lost something if they\u2019d squeezed it into a more convenient shape. Radiohead were willing to put it out there as it stood and leave programmers to decide what to do with it.<\/p>\n

Yorke also revealed why his band were committed to continuing doing things in their own unique way, adding: \u201cWe\u2019ve done what we can. We\u2019re going back to tour again. We\u2019re just resigned to it. To me, the alternative rock stations . . . what\u2019s going on? I just don\u2019t get it. What are they playing? I\u2019ve given up. I don\u2019t listen to them anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Yorke was also asked for his thoughts on the biggest pop group in the world at that time, The Spice Girls. Unsurprisingly, he was less than receptive to their brand of music, which he felt had a detrimental impact on society.<\/p>\n

When asked if he was a fan of the band, Yorke responded: \u201cNo. I agree with whoever said they\u2019re soft porn. They\u2019re the Antichrist. I don\u2019t want any part of it, and if I had kids, I wouldn\u2019t want them to have any part of it, either. I\u2019d move to an island where you can\u2019t get hold of any Spice Girls stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

While The Spice Girls were targeted at the teenage girl audience rather than his demographic, in his eyes, they represented a problem with the music industry, which seemed more interested in creating a product for consumers rather than the art itself. They were the antithesis of Radiohead, who have successfully carved out an iconic career without ever playing by the rulebook of the masses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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