Radiohead: Fitter Happier Meaning

Fitter Happier Lyrics

Fitter Happier
more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries

at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated...

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   anonymous

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   Oct 21st 2003 !⃝

   The poem (this isn't really a song) starts off as a sort of recipe for a happy and successful life. By the end, though, it's become pretty clear that this is the perfect life for a soulless automaton--it describes modern life in terms of goals, possessions, happiness and achievements, and things that all Well-Adjusted People are supposed to do. Devation from the norm will result in rejection, but that seems preferable to being "a pig / in a cage / on antibiotics." And the soullessness of it all is emphasized by having a computer voice speak the lyrics. For additional meaning, checj the very first page inside the CD booklet: "Every day in every way I am getting better and better."
2. anonymous

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   Jan 13th 2012 !⃝

   I think this is supposed to reference the novel 1984, for more than one thing. It might not literally be 1984, but there are definately some similarities. The line "fond but not in love", i think portrays Winston's feelings toward Julia. He's fond of her, follows her around and what not, but he no longer feels any love. The opening lines Fitter, happier and more productive, is Winston believing (after extreme torture), that he's become a better man.
   Radiohead are fans of 1984 (hence the song 2+2=5), so that's why i make the connection.
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   Dec 28th 2010 !⃝

   The initial impression i got of this was the outlining of the stereotypical pre-conception of what a good life consists of, atleast in terms of the status quo. The monotonous computer-tone voice just underlines, i think atleast, how dehumanising and uninspirising a typified clone-like life can be. One needs to lead his own life and not just conform to the should-be's set by society - which, as the song takes a more depressing tone towards the end - ultimately spells ill.
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   May 22nd 2007 !⃝

   Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle! That's it

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