The video starts with the camera, an unseen driver, looking at the empty back seat of a 1976 Chrysler New Yorker at night. According to MTV.com, Glazer had pitched the concept of the “Karma Police” video months earlier to Marilyn Manson, who disliked it. Glazer however revealed in an interview that he considers this video to be a failed attempt. Glazer won MTV’s Director of the Year award in 1997 for his work on this, as well as Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity”. The video premiered in August 1997 and featured Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke as well as Hungarian actor Lajos Kovács. The music video for the song was directed by Jonathan Glazer, previously responsible for Radiohead’s “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” clip. In the outro, Ed O’Brien plays a few notes on his guitar, which are distorted by overloading an AMS rackmount digital delay unit and turning the delay rate knob down. During this section of the song, Yorke’s voice is put through an echo effect and a sliding melodic figure serves as a counterpoint to Yorke’s vocals. After this section cycles through twice, the song switches into a second section which is based around the line “For a minute there, I lost myself”. During the second section the drums drop out and an analog synthesizer imitating a choir is featured. The first verse begins with the line “Karma police”, and the other begins with the line “This is what you get”. Instead, the song progresses from the intro into a mid-tempo section which alternates between two verses. The structure of the song is unconventional in that it has nothing resembling a typical chorus. Acoustic guitar and piano are the most prominent instruments in the song, and the chord progression these instruments follow owes an audible debt to The Beatles song “Sexy Sadie”. The first half of the song is in the key of A Dorian, the second half (starting with the line “For a minute there”) is in B minor. “Karma Police” is in a 4/4 time signature and played in standard tuning. Yorke has said that the idea of fridge buzz is one of the primary themes of OK Computer “Karma Police” also shares themes of insanity and dissatisfaction with capitalism. Ed was the one who originally suggested they do a song based on the catch-phrase. The song includes the line “He buzzes like a fridge/He’s like a detuned radio”, a reference to the distracting, metaphorical background noise Yorke calls “fridge buzz”. Thom sang the line “This is what you’ll get” an octave higher than he does on the album, with brilliant results. “It’s not a revenge thing, just about being happy with your own behaviour.” Thom laughs, “This is a song against bosses, fuck middle management!” “Karma Police” was debuted back in 1996 durning the Alanis Morissette tour. “It was a band catchphrase for a while on tour – whenever someone was behaving in a particularly shitty way, we’d say, ‘The karma police will catch up with him sooner or later,'” says Jonny. Fila Brazillia Club Remix found on 12″ single. Found on: OK Computer & Karma Police single.
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