A little context. I had a short flight ahead of me, and some weed I needed to get rid of. I smoked before the flight, and decided to listen to a new album on the flight. I had already heard and loved OK Computer, so Kid A seemed fitting. Here is my review and interpretation, straight from my notes app while I was blazed in the sky. Also don’t make fun of me this shit makes me cringe but I wanted to post it in whole.

Kid A is insane. Everything In It’s Right Place puts the listener into a computer. The electronic beeps and synths surround you as you listen to this strange and different sound. The next song is playful and bouncy. We hear a robot talking to us, but it is hard to make out what it is saying. As the song ends, you hear a baby’s cry as it is brought into the world. The baby? Kid A.

The child created by a computer. The first of its kind. The technological wonder is born and its life begins. The National Anthem shows us childhood. We are blasted by idea and principles that we are told are best. The mode is rebellious and questioning. What is this world? How does any of this make sense? The answer is found in How to Disappear Completely. The child is a computer. He was created in a simulation. He is not real, existing merely on zeroes and one’s. This shocks the computer, scared and confused. Tree fingers shows the computer trying to understand his life. What is real? What am I? The computer does not exist in the real world, and can only reach out through signals and messages.

Kid A tries to be Optimistic. Maybe this is what life is? What if this isn’t bad? But he knows the truth. He is In Limbo. A place not real nor fake. Life existing on nothingness. Unsure of life or death. Idioteque shows Kid A beating himself up. Worthless. Nothing. Idiot tech. Finally, the real truth wakes him up in Morning Bell. This is it for me. I am a non-existing life-form, living in a simulation and cursed to live. He is confronted in Motion Picture Soundtrack. His lover tells him. I think you’re crazy. His answer, maybe. He does not know what is real and what is fake. A rising sparkly and beautiful tone lifts us up to a choir. He may be crazy, or this could be apart of the simulation. Either way, there seems to only be one option for Kid A.

Our protagonist kills himself, the only way to truly escape this world. He may go to heaven or hell, or he may just cease to exist, and be sent to true nothingness forever. The last track, Untitled, shows us the last puzzle. We hear a buzzing sound, music but faint. Is it a real ending? Is it nothingness? We may never know.