21.2.11

Of all the strange arguments I've ever heard, this one is near the top: 'we know Radiohead's latest album is good because people disagree about which songs are good.' For example:

The front half even ends with one song, "Feral," that goes ahead and breaks from the idea of a rock band: no guitars, Yorke's vocals chopped up into cavernous echoes, looming bass. It's my favorite thing on here; some other people seem to think it’s an incoherent time-waster. That's what happens when you serve an audience this broad, and people come to you with so many different expectations.


Great work may be difficult. It may even be divisive (though I doubt it). But it's very odd to take divisiveness as evidence of greatness.

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