My father hated Yes, I have embraced Radiohead. More than twenty years later, this applies to my 22-year-old son regarding Radiohead. For me, it was all about the band Yes back in the 1970s. After all, if you are a true fan, you want to know everything about the group and the record sleeves. Through some internet program, a kind of Google Street View, he found out that it is a highway in the American city of Hartford, Connecticut. And we just did three takes of him just like doing all sorts of shit to it and we put it all in."There once was a diehard Radiohead fan who figured out where the highway on this "OK computer" album cover is situated. And a day and a half later, they were like, “OK, we’ve got it.” But it wasn’t very exciting sounding, so I ran it through Jonny’s pedal board.
What happened was I told Thom and Phil to sit there for a couple of hours and create a drum loop.
The drum loop on that song was inspired by DJ Shadow. I was also sort of experimenting with the way that Michael wrote lyrics where you’ve got this thing of semi-nonsense, but when you add them together, it has a cumulative expression of something." If you get into a crash or a potentially disastrous situation and walk away, you feel a thousand times more alive regardless of what that is. I was really frightened of cars back then, but “Airbag” was almost the opposite of that.
In a Rolling Stone article in the form of an expansive oral history of OK Computer, lead singer Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich offered the following insight into the song’s meaning and composition:
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