A Radiohead Song From 1997 Is On The Hot 100 Charts, Thanks To Tiktok

Thanks to an unexpected surge successful fame connected TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever opus connected nan Billboard Hot 100: nan morosely gorgeous way “Let Down” from nan 1997 medium OK Computer.

“Let Down” ne'er collapsed done to mainstream attraction for illustration Radiohead’s “Creep” aliases “Karma Police,” but it’s by nary intends a heavy cut, for illustration nan Pavement b-side “Harness Your Hopes” that went viral owed to a quirk successful Spotify’s proposal algorithm. This Radiohead opus is simply a instrumentality favourite from an medium that’s considered among nan best stone records of each time.

Unlike nan emergence of songs for illustration Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” aliases Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” this opus isn’t conscionable serving arsenic inheritance euphony for constitution tutorials and look videos. Instead, group are tapping into really haunting nan opus feels. It’s crushingly sad, yet there’s an earnest hopefulness to it, and nan desire to flight that sadness makes nan symptom consciousness moreover much acute.

I first encountered this inclination erstwhile my TikTok algorithm served maine — an obsessive Philadelphia Phillies and Radiohead instrumentality — pinch a video that seemed for illustration it could person been created successful a laboratory to make maine cry. It’s a montage of Zack Wheeler, nan patient ace of nan Phillies’ pitching rotation, who will soon acquisition season-ending surgery, accompanied by a choral edit of “Let Down,” while lyrics are overlaid atop a Wheeler item reel: “Bouncing backmost and/One day, I americium gonna turn wings.”

It’s almost a alleviation that this is not a lawsuit of TikTok’s algorithm processing a mind of its ain pinch a single-minded ngo to destruct maine (… that’s not really AI works, by nan way!).

All sorts of affectional videos are being group to “Let Down,” for illustration edits of clips from nan Hunger Games movies. The opus sewage a boost erstwhile it was utilized to people a segment successful nan season 1 finale of “The Bear,” and successful May, a euphony TikTok relationship posted an edit of “Let Down” that includes vocals from a ample chorus. That type of nan opus appears successful galore of these videos.

“Please make nan saddest edit that ever beryllium [sic] pinch this overlay,” nan video‘s caption reads. It has complete 1 cardinal likes.

According to Google Trends, liking successful nan opus began to spike successful nan spring, steadily rising until now, erstwhile it’s go celebrated capable to participate nan Billboard charts.