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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about FITTER HAPPIER (page 1/ 4) ------ performed by Radiohead Radiohead are incredible! | Reviewer: Michelle | 11/9/09 I see this as the way that we're "meant to live". Technically, all aspects of this "life" are perfect. We all strive to have all of these things and see that as the ultimate goal, resulting in a so-called perfect life. But life can't be perfect. We're never satisfied, but that's just the way it is. Listening to this song freaks my out because, while we all aim for these things, it sounds like such a horrible, robotic, meaningless life. I would never want to live like that. we are all paranoid androids | Reviewer: Peter | 7/16/09 I think what this song is about the way of life that such the government and the media how works hand by hand with the government wants us to live. to live a paranoid life searching for the standards that society has put for a good life so you you don't realize how the government and the media is winning millions on your behalf and controlling your life. and that the pig is us that the cage is the four walls of our office and the antibiotics is the news or the shows that are selected wisely so they can control us. What do you think what the government wants a Ph.D professor of Harvard University or a guy who collects the garbage from the street all day so at the end of the day he can have food in his table after not eating all day long? This is the same the government wants more a controlled pigs working all day long in four wall office in search for the perfect life than really realize what is going on with there country and there money... Speak up! Don't let no one shut what you have to say! The perfect life is the one you make of yourself. Is up to you chose if you want the "pig" life or a life of your own... Radiohead | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/18/09 This song scares the shit out of me. its one of my favorites, but i've never heard such a chilling creepy fortune. The voice rivals that of Pink Floyd's The Wall.Love this song though, I think it's telling of a life we're going to be living. I can almost see this coming out of the book 1984 by George Orwell. radiohead are THE band of this generation | Reviewer: finbar | 6/18/09 imho, this song is about modern society and it's ability to make you feel included and empowered and at the same time completly impotent and alienated, which in reality is what you are. you can tick all the right boxes, do all the prescribed activities, live 'right' etc, but still be pointless and 'animal'in you decisions, with very little real choice and power over your destiny. Radiohead are the prophets of this generation and the one really great pop band. Throw away your bland Coldplay drivel and get the real thing!! . | Reviewer: mas | 5/31/09 What i got from this song personally (im probably wrong though) was a sort of brave new world kind of idea, the whole "Community, Identity, Stability" kind of deal. Its really kind of scary to think about, those last lines really freak me out this may be far off but... | Reviewer: a person | 4/22/09 I think that this song is kind of like a metaphor for the future. The refrences to having a bad life BEFORE ("getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries" "no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows ") is kind of like the world in turmoil. Humanity has destroyed Earth and each other until something happens and the world is at peace again. Everything seems better than before, but at the end "a pig in a cage on antibiotics." Is like humanity being trapped in the new life. Its not really human anymore but programed machines to have a good life. This "trapped" situation might be like the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or The Giver (I forget who wrote it.) Both of these books are futuristic society's where humans hae given up choice and most feelings and emotions. Auden | Reviewer: Eamon | 4/7/09 I really like what 'I'm Stoned' and Nick have to say on this. Others too, but I think what these two have said tie into the ideas expressed by WH Auden in 'The Unknown Citizen,' which is a poem mocking the formulaic way in which a member of society's life is reduced to statistics at the point of death. I recommend having a peek at this poem if you enjoyed this song, because it's got a lot of similar concerns. Loved the Orwell comment as well. Phil, what you said about the final lines (about the pig) is interesting, but may be a little too specific- I agree that the lifestyle described in this song is being likened to the pig in the cage, but not to imply that we are on the way to the abattoir. I think it suggests that we're imprisoned, yes, and drugged (on antibiotics) which is reminiscent of Nietzsche and other modern philosophical writers who claim that religion (or, in this case, all the routines and practices that define the 'ideal life') become for us an opiate, and that to live this way is not living at all. Just got into Radiohead, and I'm stunned. Really amazing stuff. We are all actors on society's stage. | Reviewer: Im Stoned | 1/14/09 The modern human is controlled by the standards of society. I go to school 5 days a week. My personality is split up into varying personas depending on the setting. At school I am calm and obedient. Outside of the focused school environment I am uninhibited and liberated. But in the back of my mind I continue to possess the harsh responsibilities and social barriers that inhibit me and compel me to act in a certain way. Darwin termed biological fitness to mean how well an organism could pass on its genes. Thom York's fitness(fitter) could possibly mean how well an individual is able to obey and inhibit himself believing the false notion that he/she will be happier, successful, unpretentious etc. (the delusions in the social farce of humanity go on and on ad nauseum). We are doomed to avoiding the consequences of expression. We may be aware of it but we cannot alter it, hence "concerned (but powerless)." Thom Yorke is the British musician version of the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Feel free to criticize my views and subjective interpretation of this song. Speak your mind but also do it in a social setting rather than just using the internet medium. just one more thing | Reviewer: Im Stoned | 1/14/09 Nick love your comparison to 1984. But I would go on to say that it is not only government that is responsible for etching the ideal citizen, but, I would argue that the entire apparatus of society is responsible for this. That includes you and me. We are conforming to many aspects of the ideal citizen and thus are part of the problem whether you like it or not. Maybe this is a "necessary evil" in order for society to function. Think about this: was slavery in the South of the US a "necessary evil" or could the South function without relying on exploitation of others? (sorry for being subjective I am in fact from the US. I know other people are not.) What Fitter Happier means to me | Reviewer: Phil | 12/5/08 This composition drives me mad (which is why i love it). It's paradoxical. Most people regard fitness and happiness as desirable ends- but what about the means? I see the piece as somewhat of a dig on the highly ambitious over acheivers. The kind of people who have to plan out every minute of their day in order to be the best (reg. exercise/eating well). I too, have aspirations, but the more I try for them, the more I have to script my life like a computer programme. Hence the computerised reading. All the lyrics imply great control- to the point that trivialises human nature so badly that it has to be re-programmed (still cries at a good film). It seems the last lyrics are particularly chilling for most, really driving the point home. By the exacting abilities of science, humans have optimised pork production- at the expense of a pig's normal, natural lifestyle- the pigs become machines Incidentally, Thom Yorke is a full-blooded vegan. Are humans on the same path to imprisonment? My condolences to those who don't like the song, for they are already, unwittingly there. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4