Semi-Finalists Announced in Radiohead Animation Contest

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After whittling the field down to over sixty videos, the semi-finalists in the Aniboom/Radiohead animation contest were announced today. All ten of the semi-finalists will receive $1,000 to construct a minute-long animation. Seven of In Rainbows' tens tracks are represented this round. Among the finalists are Anthony Catania's storyboarding of Zoo soundtracked by "Nude," Hideyuki Kota's anime-inspired clip for "15 Step" and Clement Picon's video for "Reckoner" which draws upon Radiohead's "Xendless Xuburbia" motif (embedded above.) To see all the semi-finalists (all the videos are pretty awesome), click here. Viewing and voting for this round will take place until June 9th, the finals will take place June 23rd and the winning animation will be announced June 30th.

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“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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