BURN THE WITCH - LESSON 1: CONTEXT + INDUSTRY

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SOCIAL + HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
//Burn the Witch comes from Radiohead's 9th studio album, A Moon Shaped Pool. It is the lead single on the album, i.e. it was released to coincide with the album: if you like the song, you will love the album.
//It was released as a download on the 3rd of may 2016 on Radiohead's website, followed by 7-inch single released exclusively in independent record stores. 
//Critics interpreted the lyrics and video as a warning against group-think and authoritarianism.
//It was named one of the best songs of the year by Rolling Stone, Billboard, and the Village Voice, and was nominated for best rock song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. It was one of the bestselling UK vinyl singles of 2016.
//The lyrics direct the listeners to "Abandon all reason/avoid all eye contact/do not react/shoot the messengers/burn the witch". Yorke said the lyrics were inspired by the News of the World newspaper publishing the names and addresses of sex offenders in 2000.
//The video was directed by Chris Copewell and animated by Virpi Kettu.

FROM THEIR NINTH ALBUM:
//By contrast to Sande's Heaven, which was her debut, this is the ninth album from an iconic, globally successful British band - there isn't the same need to establish a star image.
//It was directed by Chris Hopewell, an established director and went straight to YouTube where it has 36 million views.

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