Jonny Greenwood Begins to Fear Losing Touch with the Common Man, Instinctively Collaborates with Israeli Singer in Response

Sometimes you just get the feeling that the guys from Radiohead are just, I don’t know, advanced aliens that decided to camp out on earth for a while to do a bit of recon work on the behaviors of primitive life forms for their own home planet’s anthropology records. Being the advanced beings that they are, Radiohead are, at times, unable to resist bestowing small tokens of their advanced culture upon us lowly human beings from time to time. However, also being the advanced beings that they are, the aliens sometimes get bored with just being all “wise” and “stately” all the time, and they have to do something to “amuse their curiosities,” as it were.

Case in point? Jonny Greenwood apparently recently decided that he’d written enough incendiary movie scores and innovative orchestral works, and thus, took a bit of a slacker break to work with Israeli pop singer Dudu Tasa on his newest single. What’s that? Never heard of him? Well, by all means, let me introduce you to what you’ve been missing:

Yes, a recent interview on Israeli news site and TMT sister-publication Ynet confirms (er, trust me, it really does) that Greenwood and Tasa worked together on Tasa's new single, which is titled "What a Day." “It gave the song some depth that was not there before,” Tasa said to Ynet of the collaboration. “Jonny loves what I do and thats very flattering.”

I know, I know, let's get down to business here: what does this whole ethno-world-pop-art-explosion sound like? Well, you may be in luck, as you can stream the song here with Internet Explorer. And since most of you are probably working your shitty day job where you’re using PCs from the mid-to-late-’90s right now, I’m guessing that most of you will be able to check it out!

By the way, the track is sung in Hebrew and, according to Pitchfork’s own diabolical sleuthing techniques, contains lyrics to the effect of "I was already drunk/ Now I'm clever/ And again like an idiot/ I tend to argue.” What a day, indeed. Now... get back to work, Jonny!!!

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