Ostensibly because you’d have to be living under a rock for the last ten years not to have a ‘corrupted’ opinion of Radiohead, someone decides to find out how fifth graders react to art-rock.

“I’m not asking if you like it,” [their teacher says].
She doesn’t have to ask. They don’t.
We begin with Hail to the Thief, Radiohead’s latest, a critically adored and hopelessly muddled platter of art rock weirdness. The kids shift restlessly as “2+2=5” sputters into guitar-and-drum-machine gear.
When Thom Yorke’s famously tortured croon first surfaces, the whole room starts giggling.
Giggling.
For the first few songs, the kids hardly move, scarcely even changing facial expressions. One girl plants her head on her desk face-first.

The kids drew pictures of what they thought of the music. This one is my favorite: one of several ‘you’re going to hell’ motifs, this one had a ‘kissing booth’ style kiosk labeled “free suicides”.

From the mouths of babes.

The teacher’s announcement that “Sail to the Moon” will be our last song earns a chorus of “Yessss” and several robust fist-pumps.