Top 10 Things to Alternatively Interpret Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" as Being Secretly About

Easily THE single most lyrically "open to interpretation" song ever made

PLEASE correct me if I'm objectively wrong
The Top Ten
1 Apple VS Microsoft war

Personally, I would LOVE to see a music video of this

2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Marvin THE Paranoid Android, anyone?

3 Invader ZIM Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez for Nickelodeon. The series centers on an extraterrestrial named Zim from the planet Irk, and his mission to conquer Earth and enslave the human race along with his malfunctioning robot servant GIR.

"OFF WITH HIS HEAD, GIR, OFF WITH HIS HEAD, GIR; WHY DON'T YOU REMEMBER MY NAME, MY NAME IS ZIM"

Long story short, this song is basically how Zim views humanity in a nutshell

4 Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Donald J. Trump received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, Donald Trump took charge of his family's real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump... read more

"Ambition makes you look pretty ugly" - His ambition to make white Americans the supreme master race of Earth, combined with his disgustingly flabby, crusty and wrinkly old face

"Kicking, squealing Gucci little PIGGY" - Is a fat, selfish, greedy, obscenely rich and spoiled brat who basically runs an entire family OF them

5 Rocko's Modern Life Rocko's Modern Life is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Nickelodeon. The series centers on the surreal life of an anthropomorphic Australian-immigrant wallaby named Rocko as well as his friends: the gluttonous steer Heffer, the neurotic turtle Filburt, and Rocko's faithful dog Spunky.

This ESPECIALLY applies to the show's upcoming Static Cling movie, which is setting out to parody almost every negative side-effect of ACTUAL modern-day society's relentlessly vapid consumerism and technology obsession that the writers can find a way to FIT into it while still making it funny; if Nickelodeon had as smart of ideas as I do, they would probably reconstruct an entire new (and hopefully extremely literal) music video for PA out of clips FROM the movie as a way of promoting the film

6 Xandermartin98's brain fetish and the way that he self-promotes it on Reddit

Yet ANOTHER great Reddit post
"From all the unborn puppy sperm cells in Lammy's head"

7 I Hate Everything

Yet another great Reddit post

"When I am king, the Youtube comment section will be first against the wall...with its opinions which are of no consequence at all"

8 Making breakfast

Another classic Reddit post

Disclaimer: "THE CRACKLE OF PIG SKIN" is totally not a metaphor for humans (especially fat and selfish ones) burning in Hell; why no, of COURSE not, it's just a perfectly innocent description of someone cooking bacon on a stove

9 Animal Farm - George Orwell

A bit on-the-nose if you ask me, but whatever

10 Rebellious sons and their disappointed fathers

Classic Reddit post

Also would be pretty funny in the context of God Of War 4

Seriously, why can't Kratos remember Atreus' name

The Contenders
11 Portal
12 God of War (2018)
13 Robocop
14 Requiem For a Dream
15 American Psycho
16 Gunbuster 2: Diebuster
17 Gurren Lagann Gurren Lagann, known in Japan as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, is an anime series animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It was also directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima.
18 Fooly Cooly
19 Courage The Cowardly Dog Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American animated horror comedy television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network as part of the network's Cartoon Cartoons block.
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