Listening Journal: October 21, 2011

The lyrics to the song 2+2=5, by Radiohead, is talking about how people go by what others tell them to do. We aren't paying attention to what really matters. The people in control try to make the world right or perfect, but it ends up becoming out of control. In the song, everything starts out calm and together and then suddenly the song gets really fast, The getting fast so quickly is how a "perfect" society can fall apart so quickly. The connection between the song title and 1984 is that Big Brother can rewrite the history to where he is always right even if it makes no logical sense, like 2+2=5.