Daydreaming

Having a camera focused squarely on Thom Yorke for 6 minutes, 25 seconds is never a bad idea. He’s impossible to look away from.

Daydreaming is a beautiful song and totally depressing. In the video, Thom Yorke navigates a maze buildings and rooms that seem to symbolize the larger superstructure that society has created. He looks disheveled, old, and tired. The only respite, are the brief instrumental chorus sections where he’s back in natural world. To me, this symbolizes, a longing for the wonderment of childhood.

When I referred to “the superstructure” (I’m getting the weeds here) I…