- Long established band
- very loyal fans
- interact with fans cryptically
- From Oxford
- used to be called 'On a Friday'
Trumpton-
- stop motion animation for kids
- 60s to early 70s
- British
- cultural significance
- portrays a quaint village life - no crime - middle class - safe - England
Wickerman-
- Police Sergeant to a Scottish isle to investigate a girls disappearance
- officer is a Christian but islanders believe in pagan gods
- mother and island residents claim the girl never existed and try to thwart the investigation
- Discovers the islanders sacrifice someone for a good harvest and thinks the sacrifice is Rowan
- the sacrifice is instead the policeman
Burn the Witch-
- Released just before Trump was elected - rise of the right
- references twitter
- Brexit vote was also happening
- Doesn't shake the town mayors hand - downhill from there
- 41 million YouTube views
- 22000 comments
- smaller aspect ratio - 4:3 - restricted view - don't see everything
- Demagogue - political leader that seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than using rational arguments
- Trumpton - traditional English town - UKIP ideology - Brexit
- anti - immigrant populists in France
- on their ninth album - contrasting Emeli Sande's first single - no need to build their image so they can just present their messages in a purest form
- Thom Yorke - Chris Hopewell (director) - Virpi Kettu (animator)
Starts in equilibrium - disruption - new equilibrium
Equilibrium - driving down and mayor knows about inspectors arrival but no ill intentions
Inspector turns down the mayors hands
New equilibrium - inspector killed
Negative representations of women - often had traditional roles in the village like a baker - X painted on the doors of women - traditionally for witches or plague victims
slavery - the apple farmers - manual labour - nondescript features of extravagant clothing - modern day slavery typically topped up with alcohol which is seen in the video - jobes brand tomato is a biblical reference
violence - noose and weapons throughout - the whole beef wellington - sacrifice - wasnt enough so a human must be used
Lyrics - various lyrics hint towards witch hunts -
'Red crosses on wooden doors' - how witch hunters used to mark the doors of witch residents - in the video the X was placed on a women's door
'And if you float you burn' - Trials for witches would include seeing if they float or sink - in the video a girl on the seesaw is above water
'Loose talk around tables' - women who would gossip used to be accused of witchcraft
Radiohead sent postcards to everyone on their mailing list a week before the songs release saying 'we know where you live' - also a lyric in the song
Representations -
- slavery
- authority - typically the men in this video
