Radiohead is now in Fall Guys, Fortnite and Rocket League

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Radiohead is now in Fall Guys, Fortnite and Rocket LeagueBut I’m a bean, I’m a weirdo

But I’m a bean, I’m a weirdo

Radiohead’s surprising collaboration with Epic Games is out now. The Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is a virtual environment designed to accompany and celebrate Radiohead’s classic Kid A and Amnesiac albums. It’s an odd project, but it’s one that makes sense for a band that are often experimental and technologically progressive.

Then they’ve also made items and costumes available forRocket League,Fall Guysand Fortnite, turning Radiohead into just another brand to be engaged with in Epic’s dull metaversal future.

Anyway here it is as a bean:

We’ve teamed up with@Radioheadto bring their Crying Minotaur costume to the game!5 👑 (Radio) Head5 👑 (Radio) Buttpic.twitter.com/IYE2phVlhz— Santa from Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysGame)November 19, 2021

We’ve teamed up with@Radioheadto bring their Crying Minotaur costume to the game!5 👑 (Radio) Head5 👑 (Radio) Buttpic.twitter.com/IYE2phVlhz

I’m not a huge Radiohead fan or anything. It’s also important to not take yourself too seriously, and for all their pompous sadness, Radiohead do have a sense of humour.

But I also feel it’s important to say when things are shite. This seemingly endless trend of Funko Poping every cultural work, rendering it as a contextless bauble which exists only to be owned, is total shite. Radiohead participating in it is so incongruous as to just be funny, but the broader trend, god, I’m so tired.

The virtual Kid A Mnesia exhibitionis available free from the Epic Games Store now.