Editing Paranoid Android (section)

==Music video==
Yorke said that many people suggested Radiohead make another "moody and black and dark" music video for "Paranoid Android", similar to the video for their single "[[Street Spirit]]". However, Radiohead wanted an entertaining and "sick" video instead. Yorke said: "We had really good fun doing this song, so the video should make you laugh."<ref name="Jam" /> 

Radiohead commissioned the Swedish animator [[Magnus Carlsson (illustrator)|Magnus Carlsson]] to make the video. Radiohead were fans of his animated series ''[[Robin (TV series)|Robin]].'' Jonny Greenwood described Robin as "affectionate" and "vulnerable", while Yorke said he found Robin "quite the vulnerable character, but he's also violently cynical and quite tough and would always get up again".<ref name="Jam" /> At first, Carlsson sought to work on a video for "[[No Surprises]]" and was uncertain as to how to approach "Paranoid Android". To conceive the video, he locked himself in his office for over 12 hours to stare out of the window, listen to the song on repeat and jot down visual ideas.<ref name="Randall166167">Randall, 2004. pp. 166–167.</ref> According to Yorke, the band did not send Magnus the lyrics as they did not want the video to be too literal.<ref name="Jam" /> The concept for the video was based entirely on the song's sound.<ref name="Footman, 160">Footman, 2007. p. 160.</ref> 

=== Summary ===
[[File:Paranoid Android video.png|thumb|The video's protagonist, Robin.]]

Like ''Robin'', the "Paranoid Android" video is drawn in a simplistic style that emphasises bold colours and clear, strong lines.<ref name="Footman, 160" /> It features Robin and his friend Benjamin venturing into the world, running into miserable [[European Union|EU]] representatives, bullying pub patrons, a prostitute, kissing leathermen, a drug addict, deranged businessmen, mermaids, and an angel who plays table tennis with Robin. 

The band appears in cameo at a bar, where they drink while watching a man with a head coming out of his belly dancing on their table.<ref>Tate, 2005. pp. 58–59, p. 68.</ref> However, in this cameo only the versions of Yorke and Jonny Greenwood resemble themselves;<ref name="Footman, 160" /> O'Brien said "If you freeze-frame it on the video, the guy with the five strands of hair slicked back, that's Colin. It looks nothing like him."<ref>Randall, 2000. p. 168.</ref> Colin Greenwood said "there was no way that we could appear in it to perform in it because that would be so [[Spinal Tap (band)|Spinal Tap]]" and that having animations that did not resemble the band members allowed the video to be "twisted and colourful which is how the song is anyway".<ref name="Glover">{{cite magazine |last=Glover |first=Adrian |date=August 1997 |title=Radiohead&nbsp;– Getting More Respect |magazine=[[Circus (magazine)|Circus]] <!--|url=http://colin-greenwood-interviews.blogspot.com/2007/04/circus-magazine-81997.html-->}}</ref> 

=== Reception ===
Yorke was pleased with the video, saying that it "is really about the violence around [Robin], which is exactly like the song. Not the same specific violence as in the lyrics, but everything going on around him is deeply troubling and violent, but he's just drinking himself into oblivion. He's there, but he's not there. That's why it works. And that's why it does my head in every time I see it."<ref name="Jam" />

While the single did not receive significant radio play in the US, [[MTV]] placed its video on high rotation. The version most often shown was edited to remove the mermaids' bare breasts. Colin Greenwood said, "We would've understood if they had a problem with some guy chopping his arms and legs off, but I mean, a woman's breasts! And mermaids as well! It's fucked up."<ref name="Randall166167" /> [[MTV Europe]] played the video uncut for two weeks because the channel's official censor was ill and unable to work. After that time the channel ran the cut version of the video.<ref name="Jam" /> A later US version of the video has the mermaids wearing bathing suits.<ref name="Randall166167" /> 

Evan Sawdey of [[PopMatters]] described the video as "bizarre yet fitting",<ref name="PopMatters" /> and ''[[Melody Maker]]'' said it represented a stunning "psycho-cartoon".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead revealed: The inside story of the year's most important album |magazine=[[Melody Maker]] |date=March 2000 <!--|url=http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=66-->}}</ref> Adrian Glover of ''[[Circus (magazine)|Circus]]'' called the animation incredible and the video "really cool".<ref name="Glover" /> The MTV vice president of music Lewis Largent told ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]:'' "You can watch 'Paranoid Android' a hundred times and not figure it all out."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Blashill |first=Pat |date=January 1998 |title=Radiohead&nbsp;– Band of the Year |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] <!--|url=http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=1998&cutting=51-->}}</ref>