I am also aware that if I didn't trust Radiohead so much I might not have got through those two barriers. But credit to them for using that trust, to bring people through. Credit also for the millions of ordinary people who are prepared to follow on that journey, and therefore support this difficult project. If they didn't sell millions it would be harder to make it happen.
Thom Yorke released a YouTube video of himself, dancing to Lotus Flower. It has been watched a lot. The comments vary quite a lot ('not as good as Coldplay', 'this is gay' WTF? - i know i shouldn't read them).
I think the dancing is like the music. It's complex, it's not one thing. I was talking before about Clay Shirkey's comment that difficult art won't be valued any more, and I was saying that au contraire there needs to be a creative boiler-room where difficult art brews away (mixed metaphor alert) even if it's not popular.
I think Radiohead have made a good effort, probably a successful effort, to open up the boiler room to a mass audience, and break down that divide. They have traded in their 1990s superstar status for that, and the gamble has more or less worked out for them and us.
'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture'? Who said that - Google attributes it to both Steve Martin and Elvis Costello (ed - I bet Hano is right that it was Lester Bangs). In any case - what is 'talking about dancing about in a garage'? Not sure but this French guy sure tries.
I think you can hold several thoughts in your mind at the same time. That it's funny or serious. This is someone quite old, who doesn't give a fuck. It's inclusive and/or exclusive.
I admire this. I couldn't really argue with someone who said it was bullshit. But I think this is real stuff, worth trying to get through to.
ETA: Boiler room Mashups -
to Dancing Queen: 'Anybody could be that guy'.
Jumping Jack Flash: surprisingly hot
MC Hammer
Footloose: had me grinning like a loon
Tumblr with 150 derivative works