Intending to look outwardly for their next project, the band sought inspiration from what they’d been experiencing and what they saw happening around them. For instance, the exhaustive concert runs and consumeristic promotional cycles for The Bends made them feel somewhat disengaged and inauthentic. The claustrophobia - just having no sense of reality at all,” Yorke admitted to Rolling Stone in 2017.OK Computer is an album about the flaws and experiences of everyday life, and everyday topics. Its context sounds boring, yet the album makes it interesting. Its about things like being saved by a simple Airbag, being scared of little fights and disputes, everyday driving, what to do to be a good worker, as well as fears, as described in Paranoid Android, Climbing Up The Walls, and No Surprises. The album feels like a discussion of some sort, all to be stopped with a slow down, slow down.Īs for how this impacts the cover, you might want to look into the marketing posters they made for the album. But the highways, people, and the sign of a 'lost child' pretty much seem like everyday experiences. The cover seems a bit thrown out, like a bunch of unneeded detail.

But it really kinda is all you're thinking about everyday, at work and life and all. Its scary, really, the album is probably one of their darkest.

Other than that, OK Computers artwork seems to try and convey a bleak and terrifying future, of boring commutes and simple lives.

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