"Lotus Flower" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their eighth studio album, The King of Limbs (2011).
Its music video, featuring Yorke's erratic dancing, attracted millions of views and inspired an internet meme.
The Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, debuted a solo version of "Lotus Flower" at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on 2 October 2009, while on tour with his band Atoms for Peace.
[1] On 24 January 2010, Radiohead suspended work on their album The King of Limbs to perform at the Music Box Theater, Hollywood, to raise funds for Oxfam responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
[3][5] "Lotus Flower" was released as the lead single from Radiohead's eighth studio album, The King of Limbs, in 2011).
[10] It was directed by Garth Jennings and choreographed by Wayne McGregor, and features black-and-white footage of Yorke dancing erratically.
[16] It sparked the "Dancing Thom Yorke" internet meme, whereby people replaced the video's audio or edited the visuals,[17] and led to the hashtag "#thomdance" trending on Twitter.
[19] Metro praised Yorke's performance, writing that "somehow, even though he seems to be a mass of tangled limbs in the grip of an attack of some sort, it works", but criticised the video set as "sparse to say the least".