Yorke said he cried with relief when he heard Godrich's mix, saying he had dreamed of how he wanted the song to sound: "And one day you walk into the studio and there it is.

'"[2] The subtitle, "The Boney King of Nowhere", refers to a song from the animated series Bagpuss, which Yorke watched with his young son.

[10] Yorke instructed him to make a video similar to the folk tales of the Brothers Grimm and the Czech animator Jan Švankmajer.

[10] The video debuted on the Times Square Jumbotron in New York on 20 May 2003, and received hourly play that day on MTV2.

The shoes give Yorke super speed, but the effect wears off when the crows fly away and his feet become tangled in ivy.

[13] The Guardian described the choice of a more conventional rock song as "diplomatic" following the divided response to Radiohead's previous albums Kid A and Amnesiac.

[15] In 2020, the Guardian named "There There" the 27th-greatest Radiohead song, writing that its "hooks and arrangement were deceptively crafty ... making its turbulent climax hard to shake".