Fake Plastic Trees Video & Audio
Directed by Jake Scott and filmed in an airport hangar in Los Angeles, the video follows the band around a weird, futuristic supermarket where all the items are large jars full of colored stuff. Maybe a nod to what society will eventually be like if we keep living such plastic lives?
Apparently not. "The film is actually an allegory for death and reincarnation but if you can read that into it you must be as weird as the people who made it," says director Jake Scott. (Source)
"Creep" is almost indistinguishable from many other early-'90s alternative rock hits. Sounding a little like Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the music gets louder and softer throughout the song.
Nirvana was launched into superstardom by "Smells like Teen Spirit" just as "Creep" launched Radiohead's career, and both bands spent the rest of their careers trying to distance themselves from these songs and to live them down.