Radiohead As Interpreted By Fifth Graders

19Sep2003 Filed under: Linkage

The kid on the mountain is saying “I hate my life.”

That’s pretty much how Radiohead makes me feel, too.

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4 Responses to “Radiohead As Interpreted By Fifth Graders”

Brodie
September 19th, 2003 at 10:11 am

this is a riot. really. as a person who teaches grade 5, i can tell you its about right on. however, that being said, kids like bjork. kids have good taste.
leblanc
September 19th, 2003 at 11:27 am

i like radiohead. i was a little offended by the article’s suggestion that i’m unable to have an independent opinion of them; in fact, my discovery of them and my listening history has had almost nothing to do with main stream media representation, since i don’t pay attention to any of that. i discovered them and fell in love with them on my own.

but it does make me sad. the kids drawrings are great.

i dunno if those kids have *that* good of taste though if they wanted to listen to 50 Cent instead.
db
September 19th, 2003 at 12:10 pm

That’s great! Just coming up with teh idea to do such a thing is great. Think about it- whether or not those kids liked it or not (or pretended to like it or not), they’ll most likely remember the experience. So here you ahve a roomful of fifth graders being influenced by a modern musical entity. In public school! Wouldn’t have happened in *my* fifth grade days, sad to say. In the latter years of high school, *maybe*. Perhaps this suggests a slight shuffle to the left? Perhaps the American education system standard isn’t as farked as I think it is? Intriguing…’Course, I’m prolly overanalzing again…it’s the Libra in me…
christine
September 19th, 2003 at 1:09 pm

Hahah, I just found that article via metafilter too and saw your trackback. I thought it was damn funny and in fact I passed it on to a few fellow Radiohead fans. I wonder what the experiment would yield with other music…

Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.

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