"No Surprises" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), in 1998.

Yorke described it as a "fucked-up nursery rhyme", with a gentle mood and harsh lyrics conveying dissatisfaction with social or political order.

The music video, directed by Grant Gee, features Yorke wearing a helmet as it fills with water, inspired by the 1960s science fiction and underwater escape acts.

Inspired by the lyric "a job that slowly kills you", Gee conceived a video that would convey the feeling of "murderous seconds".

The original lyrics referred to a girl who doesn't "take off her dress when she bleeds in the bathtub", which the journalist Tim Footman felt echoed the menstruation motifs of the songwriter Bill Callahan.

According to NME, these versions begin as a more upbeat ballad in the style of Radiohead's 1995 album The Bends, with an extended guitar outro, and progress to a "grandiloquent lullaby".

He said the concept was to frighten OK Computer listeners with "Climbing Up the Walls", then comfort them "with a pop song with a chorus that sounds like a lullaby".

[19] The journalist Sam Steele wrote, "Even when the subject is suicide ... [the] guitar is as soothing as balm on a red-raw psyche, the song rendered like a bittersweet child's prayer.

"[19] According to Yorke, American audiences reacted passionately to the lines "bring down the government / they don't speak for us" during Radiohead's 2003 tour.

[25] In 2020, the Guardian named it the 29th-greatest Radiohead song, writing: "Can a radical conscience coexist with suburban comforts, 'No Surprises' asks?

Initially, Radiohead and their record label, Parlophone, planned to film music videos for each track on OK Computer.

His initial concept for "No Surprises", which Gee later described as "some kind of sparkly music-box themed performance-based nonsense", was rejected.

Gee listened to the song while studying a still image of the astronaut character David Bowman in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and wondered if he could make a music video comprising a close-up of a man in a helmet.

He was also inspired by childhood memories of underwater escape acts and alien characters in the television series UFO with helmets full of liquid.

He fixated on the lyric "a job that slowly kills you", and conceived a real-time video that would convey the feeling of "murderous seconds".

Versions have also been recorded by K's Choice, Luka Bloom, Malia, Blake Morgan, Yaron Herman Trio, Christopher O'Riley, Paige, Peter Jöback, Motorama, Louis Durra, Stanisław Sojka, Scott Matthew, Northern State, and Postmodern Jukebox.

[46] Regina Spektor, alternative pianist and anti-folk musician, released a one-track charity single of the song on 27 April 2010.