Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Let Down (Radiohead song)
Having no music video, single release, and no live performances does not automatically indicate a lack of notability. Coverage and professional analysis indicates notability. Searches on https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22let+down%22+%22radiohead%22&btnG= Google Scholar and https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Let+Down%22+%22Radiohead%22&tbm=bks&sxsrf=ALeKk01u6k5tLYudJwaIUmI9JTFv3sRyBw:1625420467869&ei=s_LhYM3FNJW3tAbnir0g&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwiN6-OM-8nxAhWVG80KHWdFDwQ4FBDy0wN6BAgBEDs&biw=1680&bih=877&dpr=2 Google Books and the previews of their results indicates discussions and varying viewpoints on the song alone. Professional critic and journalist Mac Randall is quoted in multiple results exclaiming the song to be "a tremendous achievement and one of Radiohead's most intoxicating creations". https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inside_Classic_Rock_Tracks/7TEIvaWpqdAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Let+Down%22+%22Radiohead%22&pg=PA149&printsec=frontcover There's an entire section about the production, composition, and lyrics of this track in this book about "Classic Rock Tracks" of all eras. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Emotion_in_Western_Music/NUD8DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Let+Down%22+%22Radiohead%22&pg=PA376&printsec=frontcover This section of a book about the history of all Western music goes into detail about the song itself, while https://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:20132/CONTENT/osborn-rock-harmony-reconsidered.pdf/ this academic journal piece features pages upon pages upon pages of analysis of the song's composition and how it relates to the composition of rock music in general. Additionally, lines of the song are quoted in https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8K365D2/download this academic piece of cultural analysis that isn't even about anything Radiohead-relateed, but rather about the general concept of religion, utopia and globalization in our world, and https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Motion/GoI6DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Let+Down%22+%22Radiohead%22&pg=PT360&printsec=frontcover this book section about the structure of human awareness in society. https://scholars.carroll.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12647/223/2002_AmosM_THS_000851.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y This academic piece that has several parts analyzing the song also reports (in pages 3 to 4) that Billboard magazine claimed this track to be the best song of the year (of all bands, of all artists, of all genres, of all albums). All of this, in addition to https://www.papermag.com/overcoats-radiohead-2648566163.html Papermag and https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/10/1/21494313/radiohead-best-songs-ranked The Ringer rankings of these songs on the lists of best all-time songs in Radiohead's entire discography, indicate notability independent from being an ''OK Computer'' track. There's also the fact the the album article isn't covering even a 20th of the analysis and available info about all of its specific tracks, and already is . While the article is very short and needs expansion, the obvious solution here is to expand this article and split the album article into those about specific songs, which is already what we do with most Beatles albums, not to delete or merge into an already unnavigably-long album article
— User:HumanxAnthro, 18:27, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:TOOBIG (Wikipedia:Article size)