Editing Paranoid Android (section)

=== 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>