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Random Sun Aug 03 2008
Radiohead Needs a Copyeditor
I am not enough of a Radiohead fan to accurately review one of their concerts. But I am enough of a fan of the English language to know that they need to take a clearer look at their stage show:
Notice anything around the 40-second mark of that video? "Everything in It's Right Place"? Even one of the biggest bands in the world shouldn't be above proper grammar. Otherwise, I can't be the only person to think that the Field Museum should receive an assist for the unintentionally perfect fireworks display that took place behind Radiohead's headlining Lollapalooza set on Friday evening. The synchronization between those fireworks and "Fake Plastic Trees" was truly trascendent.
Jeanette / August 3, 2008 1:16 PM
I am a big Radiohead fan, but English is not my language.
Though... The members of Radiohead all went to college (except poor Jonny), and Colin even studied English litterature, so I would say that "Everything in IT'S right place" is not an awful mistake but was intended. Anyway, it is the name of the song, and the world have lived with it since it was released (on Kid A, in 2000).
Artists should have the right to mess with conventions - this freedom is on my opinion an essential part of art itself.