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"Creep" is the debut single by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 September 1992 by EMI. It was included as the second track of Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). It features "blasts" of guitar noise by Jonny Greenwood and lyrics describing an obsessive unrequited attraction.
Souza began her career by providing vocals for producers of electronic music. Under pseudonyms she sang versions of hits songs from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as "Creep" by Radiohead and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club. [2]
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Work began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", and progress was slow.
In January 2018, Del Rey said on Twitter that the band Radiohead was taking legal action against her for allegedly plagiarising their 1992 song "Creep" on "Get Free". According to Del Rey, Radiohead asked for 100% of publishing royalties instead of Del Rey's offer of 40%. She denied that "Creep" had inspired "Get Free". [5]
Radiohead wrote it in response to the request from their record label, EMI, to record a single to repeat the success of "Creep". [11] The caustic lyrics use an iron lung as a metaphor for the way "Creep" had both sustained and constrained them: "This is our new song / Just like the last one / A total waste of time / My iron lung". [12]
Though Radiohead wrote "The Bends" in 1992, [59] before "Creep" was released in September of that year, [60] commentators interpreted the title as a comment on the success of "Creep"; [57] [58] others have commented that the song, particularly the line "I want to be part of the human race", feels like a sequel to "Creep", continuing the similar ...
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"Stop Whispering" was the third single released from Pablo Honey.It was unsuccessful. [6] It reached #23 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in October 1993. [7] In Australia, it was released as the follow-up to Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", on 7 February 1994, [8] reaching #131 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. [9]