In 2019, Thom Yorke revealed that he was a fan of Billie Eilish. In fact, he accompanied his daughter to watch Eilish perform live. “I like Billie Eilish. She’s doing her own thing. Nobody’s telling her what to do,” the Radiohead frontman said. In fact, as reported by Rolling Stone, Yorke even approached Eilish to tell her what he thinks of her. Brian Marquis, Eilish’s tour manager, witnessed the exchange and said that Yorke told Eilish, “You’re the only one doing anything f***ing interesting nowadays.”
On the other hand, Yorke has also named other musicians he doesn’t care for. In a backstage interview in 2001, he said, “I draw the line at Muse, because they openly slag us off, as well as openly rip us off. And that’s like, ‘How f***ing dare you?’ You know there’s one thing to imitate and then to slag off the person you are imitating. That’s just not cool, that’s incredibly bad karma,” referring to the English rock band Muse, according to Consequence. The animosity between the two bands almost became physical when Yorke and Muse drummer and founder Dominic Howard saw each other. Howard said that the Radiohead frontman looked down on him. “I respect them musically, but the last time I met him we almost started a fight; he treated me badly, looking down on me,” he said (via Rock Celebrities).
