Blog: Idolator

Oh, if only that deer-in-the-headlights look was being caused by some actual oncoming headlights. Here I go, thinking you've recorded one of the best singles of the year, one that finds a moving middle ground between the music of U2 and the Arcade Fire, and you have to ruin it by indulging in Bono's not-really-so-humble self-mocking messiah shtick and the Arcade Fire's penchant for raiding the wardrobe of a high school thespian club. Thom Yorke still wants to know how many trees had to die so you could do your idiot hop under streams of confetti at the MTV Movie [...]