Thanks to an offhand comment by Tim Walz, the word-of-the-day which summarizes the activities and vocalizations of the Republican Party is the word “Weird.” This video is a message to JD Vance to explain that to him as well as to provide a suggestion as to what he should do about it. It’s a parody of Creep by Radiohead.
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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LYRICS for VEEP
Don Caron
When you were chosen
by the orange guy
You spoke like a weirdo
Cat-ladies make you cry
If they don’t have children
Then they must be psycho
And that was your message
Your running-mate message
You won’t be the Veep
‘Cause you’re a weirdo
Why the hell would you even run?
You ain’t no runner
You don’t care about us
You wanna have control
Over women’s bodies
Over women’s souls
You think we don’t notice
You flip-flop around
You shift your position
To get your position
You can’t be the Veep
‘Cause you’re a weirdo
Your eye’s on the West Wing
Well, you don’t belong there
Oh-oh, oh-oh
You’re running for vice-president
Time to run away
Run run run run
Run
You once were a liberal
And now you’re a liar
We think maybe Tim Walz
Can help you retire
You won’t be the Veep
‘Cause you’re a weirdo
You got your eye on the West Wing?
But you don’t belong there
You won’t ever be there
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG
“Creep” is the debut single by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 September 1992. It was included as the second track of Radiohead’s debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). It features “blasts” of guitar noise by Jonny Greenwood and lyrics describing an obsessive unrequited attraction.
Radiohead had not planned to release “Creep”, and recorded it at the suggestion of the producers, Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, while they were working on other songs. They took elements from the 1972 song “The Air That I Breathe” by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Following legal action, Hammond and Hazlewood were credited as co-writers.
Kolderie convinced Radiohead’s record label, EMI, to release “Creep” as a single. It was initially unsuccessful, but achieved radio play in Israel and became popular on American alternative rock radio. It was reissued in 1993 and became an international hit, likened to alt-rock “slacker anthems” such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana and “Loser” by Beck. Reviews of “Creep” were mostly positive.
EMI pressured Radiohead to match the success, which created tension during the recording of their second album, The Bends (1995). Radiohead departed from the style of “Creep” and grew weary of it, feeling it set narrow expectations of their music, and did not perform it for several years. Though they achieved greater commercial and critical success with later albums, “Creep” remains Radiohead’s most successful single. It was named one of the greatest debut singles and one of the greatest songs by Rolling Stone. In 2021, the singer, Thom Yorke, released a remixed version with synthesisers and time-stretched acoustic guitar.
Radiohead formed in Oxfordshire in 1985 and signed a record contract with EMI in 1991. Their 1992 debut, the Drill EP, drew little attention. For their debut single, Radiohead hired the producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie and recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. They worked on the songs “Inside My Head” and “Lurgee”, but without results.
Between rehearsals, Radiohead spontaneously performed another song, “Creep”, which the singer, Thom Yorke, had written at the University of Exeter in the late 1980s. Yorke jokingly described it as their “Scott Walker song”, which the producers misinterpreted. As they left the studio that night, Slade told Kolderie, “Too bad their best song’s a cover.”
After further recording sessions failed to produce results, Kolderie suggested Radiohead perform “Creep”. After the first take, everyone in the studio burst into applause. Radiohead did not know they were being recorded; according to the drummer, Philip Selway, “The reason it sounds so powerful is because it’s completely unselfconscious.”
After Radiohead assured Kolderie that “Creep” was an original song, he called EMI and convinced them to release it as the single. According to Kolderie, “Everyone [at EMI] who heard ‘Creep’ just started going insane.” Slade and Kolderie suggested that the lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, record a piano part. While mixing the song, Kolderie forgot to add the piano until the outro, but the band approved of the result.