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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hide And Seek (page 1/ 85) ------ performed by Imogen Heap Loveing this song. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/16/09 this song is really good! I agree about the divorce theory it's definatly a sadder story then Jason Derulo's song. Not only that but the part he took makes a lot more sense in this. Love love love it. Opinion | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/13/09 I honestly think everyone hears something differrent in this song , but thats what makes it so awsome. I imagine a native american women's feelings about the white man taking what was thiers. No IM not Native American nor am I a female. Its just what I hear and visualize. A Child's View | Reviewer: Jacob | 11/11/09 I agree with the divorce interpretation of this song. As has already been mentioned, Imogen Heap's parents divorced when she was young, so it makes sense to me that this song is understood from the child's perspective: Where are we? What the hell is going on? (She wakes up one day and is confused by her surroundings. Something is missing. Or, more like, someone is missing. She's addressing the remaining parent.) The dust has only just begun to form Crop circles in the carpet Sinking feeling (The dust has only just begun to form could be a feeling in the back of her mind that something terrible has happened. I think crop circles in the carpet refers to the imprint heavy things make in carpet when they stand there a long time. Perhaps the parent who left claimed this or that piece of furniture or whatever and took it with them leaving crop circles in the carpet where there was once something there. On that note the dust forming could also refer to dust collecting on the things that settled, and she's saying, "Why did you go away? I don't understand; it was too soon. The dust was just beginning to form, and we were happy and comfortable here." The sinking feeling is indicative of loss and dread.) Spin me round again And rub my eyes This can't be happening (She's talking to the remaining parent again, asking him/her (I think both men and women are capable of leaving) to convince them this isn't just a dream. "This is just a dream, show me this isn't real and rub my eyes to wake me up, so we can go back to reality.") When busy streets a mess with people Would stop to hold their heads heavy (She notices the people around her neighborhood are acting strangely. They're hanging their heads not wanting to get involved in the relationship problems they observed, minding their own business.) Hide and seek (Denial: "He/she's just hiding. This is a game. I just have to find them and everything will go back to normal.") Trains and sewing machines All those years They were here first (She's observing what's still here as she searches, what wasn't taken. Trains and sewing machines could symbolize the family. Why would the parent take the furniture which means nothing but not take the toys? Why would they choose him/herself over us?) Oily marks appear on walls Where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life (When pictures (pleasure moments) hang on walls for a long time, the grime of the air and the inherent messiness of life collect on the pictures and the walls. It happens so slowly that you don't realize it's there until you take the picture down, and the place the picture hung is clean but the rectangle of grime on the walls stand out: Oily marks on walls. The remaining parent is ridding him/herself of the happy memories that are now ruined in their mind. The sweeping insincerity of this still life is what's taking over and ruining the moments.) Hide and seek (This time she accepts that the parent has left, but now wants to know why. She's seeking reasons, understanding.) Trains and sewing machines (You won't find me around here) (She's not going to find answers by just comparing what is and is not still there: the repetition of trains and sewing machines.) Blood and tears (hearts) They were here first (She's finding answers by recalling the the blood and tears of the life before the parent left. They were here first, so they'll be more effective in gaining understanding.) Mmmm whatcha say, Mmm that you only meant well? Well of course you did Mmmm whatcha say, Mmmm that it's all for the best? Of course it is Mmmm whatcha say? Mmmm that it's just what we need You decided this whatcha say? Mmmm what did she say? (She's asking the remaining parent again. The mmms are her not believing him/her. Sarcasm: "You meant well? It's for the best? It's just what we need? ...Yeah... right. Of course it is. Best for whom? You decided this without me.") Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth 'Mid sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs Speak no feeling no I don't believe you You don't care a bit, You don't care a bit (She's saying that the parent keeps making things up (Newspaper word cut outs). They're justifying what happened (Mid sweet talk). They claim not to have had a choice (Ransom notes). But they made this choice without considering what it would do to her, "You don't care a bit (about me).") I just think it makes a lot a sense. I know that this song means different things to different people, but that's what I get out of it. ? | Reviewer: Eric | 11/9/09 I love how Andrew laid it out factually, then Ashley comes along and offers the typical ignorant response. This is Imogen Heap a British/German singer, not Toby Keith. As previously stated, 5 minutes on Wikipedia makes a world of difference. It just goes to show you that the song is what you make of it (which is what Imogen intends with her music) no matter how different the interpretations may be. I think the best way to sum it up is to say this song is about betrayal by [insert anyone you've felt betrayed by here]. As far as my review is concerned, this is a breath of fresh air and can't even be ruined by Jason Derulo's horrible "remake". divorce | Reviewer: Leah | 11/7/09 When i first heard this song i had no idea what it meant. i heard many meanings and they all seemed to make some sort of sense but the one that caught my attention the most was divorce. Her parents are divorced and if you listen to the lyrics the way she explains everything it makes so much sense. I wanted to believe the song meant more then another relationship song, but it really speaks to me in this way now. It really could mean anything. its important to find what the song means to you. oh, ps, jason derulo should be slapped for cutting up imogens masterpiece and turining it into another annoying mainstream song. what ive heard... | Reviewer: maymay | 11/6/09 This is just what I've heard off and on, but I'm pretty sure its about capturing animals and killing them for their furs... I know it sounds kinda odd at first, but it makes sense... just think about it... it seems like a really good interpretation to me! LOL lets just agree to disagree! | Reviewer: Ashley | 11/6/09 There are so many meanings to this song, and I'm almost positive none of us are "Right". The song has a meaning to everyone that reads it! And there is no need for argument about what we interpret it to be. Just for my own entertainment, I like to think of this song to symbolize the 9/11 indecent. Where she refers to the crop circles, they could be for me, a way of saying the debris from the towers, to have began to fall upon the city, as people in busy streets hold their heads heavy. And everyone knows about the suspicison that the President supposedly knew about all of this. And where she said, "That you only meant well, of course you did, that its all for the best?" and "you decided this". In my opinion is a way of saying that this was known to happen. Hide and seek is refering to the search for the "real culpret", (the reason for the war in Iraq and Pakistan). And the line "where oily marks on walls" are of the families that were affected by the tragedy. But like I said, this song can be interpreted many different ways, if it couldn't then it would not be music, and Imogen would not be an artist. Cracking meaning | Reviewer: Andrew | 11/6/09 My personal thought on this starts with the artist. It is safe to say that Imogen Heap is working in an abstract medium of music. She directly states that she actively seeks to record sounds, remove the life from them, and then "breathe her own life" into them. Abstraction is an artistic tool that she is using. In any medium of art, be it music, visual or otherwise, abstraction is useful because the meaning of a piece becomes removed from conventional ways of thinking. For instance, go look up Piet Modrian's painting "Composition with Black White and Red". Interpretations of his work are highly subjective. However, true abstraction does not begin from nothingness. SOME thing inspired Mondrian, however even he may not know what it is. The point that artists like Mondrian wish to make is not that a piece of art can resonate the SAME feeling with viewers as it does for the creator, but that art simply resonates. Five minutes on Wikipedia will tell you that Imogen's parents split up when she was young, possibly a motivation for this piece as it pertains to the "affair" theory, which seems to me the best supported argument among these, but regardless, the way WE interpret the piece is purely subjective. I do not think Imogen herself would want us to derive a single, concrete meaning from this composition. Anyhow, those are my thoughts, I would love to have dialogue about this, so feel free to email me at ASPAM159@gmail.com what she means | Reviewer: relle | 11/4/09 i definately think she is refering to a break up that has hurt her. i think the break up is due to the guy cheating on her. she doesnt trust him anymore and she doesnt ever want to feel that way again. meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/3/09 I find it interesting that every interpretation f the song's meaning takes one part of the lyrics at its face value: some believe its kidnapping because of the ransom note line, some believe its a relationship because of the bridge (thats what its called not the chorus) and others the holocaust because of the takeover line. Isn't it possible that the whole song is metaphorical, nothing is exactly what it says. I think its about loss in general and is up to you to take it how you hear it. 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