- Source: If You Say the Word
"If You Say the Word" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 7 September 2021 as the first single from the compilation Kid A Mnesia. It was recorded during the joint sessions for Radiohead's albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), but remained unreleased until 2021.
Music
"If You Say the Word" features "delicate" fingerpicking, a "foreboding groove", "chiming" percussion and ondes Martenot.
Music video
Radiohead released a video for "If You Say the Word" on 23 September 2021. It was directed by Kasper Häggström and features a crew capturing businessmen from nature and taking them to work in London. Spin likened the video to the science fiction series Black Mirror. The video won "Best Alternative Video" at the 2022 UK Music Video Awards.
Reception
Writing for Pitchfork, Marc Hogan described "If You Say the Word" as "lush and elegant". He observed that the lyrics seem both loving and threatening, and wrote that it "doesn't immediately stand out as fodder for a Radiohead best-of playlist, it's still of such strikingly high quality that it's surprising it hasn't surfaced before now". Contact Music described it as a "typically melancholy ambient number" in line with other material from Kid A and Amnesiac.
Personnel
= Radiohead
=Colin Greenwood
Jonny Greenwood
Ed O'Brien
Philip Selway
Thom Yorke
Additional personnel
Nigel Godrich – production, engineering, mixing
Gerard Navarro – production assistance, additional engineering
Graeme Stewart – additional engineering
References
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- Brian Cowen
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- Britania Raya
- Daftar film bertema lesbian, gay, biseksual dan transgender
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- If You Say the Word
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- Kid A Mnesia
- Seven dirty words
- Hugh Skinner
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- Nigger
