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In the video above Warren and I, joined by Erin Barra, a professor at Berklee College of Music, discuss why this simple little slow song is one of Radiohead’s greatest achievements. 7 hours ago &0183 &32 Alex Pereira is happy to give Sean Strickland his flowers after a wild upset victory this past weekend. The piano in the song, it turns out, is syncopated. The reason? He realized, with the help of a few fan forums, that the album version of “Videotape,” a somber, monotonous song, has a highly complex and challenging hidden rhythm. In December 2016, he uploaded a 38-minute video to YouTube about a Radiohead song that I deeply love called "Videotape." He had been thinking specifically about the hidden patterns in this seemingly simple song for the better part of a decade. He's a Radiohead enthusiast who also happens to be an incredibly talented musician and music teacher.

On July 12, 1979, in the middle of a packed baseball stadium in Chicago, an event happened that would go down in history.

MUSIC FROM VOX VIDEOS SERIES

In my first episode of Vox Pop's new music series Earworm, I spoke with Warren Lain. With a disco sample and a drum machine, house music took over the globe. And lucky for me, a slightly smaller but still fierce group of fans do too. Trap music was born in Atlanta, and if you listen to a lot of it, youll notice a lot of the same elements in each song. Those musical puzzles, though, are a whole other story.

I'm entertained by fan theories, there's no doubt about that, but they rarely leave me satisfied. We met at school playing music together, and we still get together over music now. That’s the thread running through this whole thing. In an interview with the New Yorker, Phil Selway, the band’s drummer, said: Radiohead never really engages with these conspiracy theories. Radiohead is a band that can release an album and within minutes, fans around the world converge on the internet and theorize about every aspect of it: the significance of the date it was released, the imagery in the album cover, what the track titles really mean, where coded messages in the lyrics are - the list goes on and on.