| By Pages: Previous 10 Pages 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hide And Seek (page 11/ 85) ------ performed by Imogen Heap IH's "Interpretation" of Hide and Seek | Reviewer: Joe | 1/30/09 I, unlike seemingly everyone else who posts here, had never heard this song before today, Jan 30, 2009 (Dont watch OC, missed the parody on SNL) Clearly hopelessly out of touch. But while looking at Aqua Teen Hunger Force compilation on YouTube, "Hide and Seek" was played several times - and I was immediately enthralled. I had previously only known of Imogen Heap by name only. Anyway, after hearing the tune I was really drawn in by the desolate, angry, confused, almost post-apocalyptic lyrics and the haunting sound of the electronically harmonized vocals. Long story short, after speculating internally on the meaning - is it about a relationship ending, marriage collapsing, children of divorce point of view, 1984ish "takeover" - I decided to see if IH had any interviews with her own explanation of the lyrics. I found two ---- ************ Interviewer: Also the lyrics on the first album were quite relationship-based, but a little less on Speak For Yourself. And on the track you’ve just released Hide and Seek, the lyrics are particularly random, and I just wondered what they were about? IH: Do you think they’re random? (laughs). Maybe they’re not so obvious… yes. ... Interviewer: Well, you have to really think to imagine what the song might be about. IH: What do you think the song’s about? ... Interviewer: But I’m asking the question because I figured a lot of people might wonder what the lyrics to Hide and Seek are about? IH: Well, I’m not going to tell you exactly what it’s about, because I think that part of the reason why it is not so obvious is sometimes it’s good to have those songs that really mean something very dear to you, but maybe you don’t want to speak about it to the rest of the world. But, with that one, I wrote it so quickly, the lyrics I probably wrote in about 20 minutes, which is unheard of. But I like to be clever with words and I like to make them like a puzzle, I like the words to sound interesting in the mouth and create patterns within themselves. So with that one, it just literally came out of nowhere and I found myself getting really passionate about it and it just poured out of me. There was something in my life that obviously needed to be said. In a broad strokes way, it’s about losing something very dear to me and how much of an impact that person had on my life and about maybe how when something awful happens to somebody else, how other people react to it. It tied in with when I went to see Michael Moore’s Farenheit 911 and I remembered that image of George Bush being told and him completeley carrying on as if nothing had happened. And I just thought that was outrageous, if I was the president I would run out of their and fucking get onto the TV and say something amazing, and he wasn’t even reading his book and he had it upside down. And I was really horrified at how selfish and awful he was, and how emotionless he was and that kind of reminded me a little bit about somebody else behind this song. ************* So, there is a vague 9/11 connection - but only in reference to GWB being "selfish and awful". The other interview doesn't address lyrical content, but tells the story of the recording: Interviewer: Describe the production of the track Hide and Seek. It is an unusual arrangement, and really seems to have struck a chord with your fans. IH: That's the one that took the least amount of time, out of the whole record. In the beginning that annoyed me, that everyone loved the one I did in one day. The one that took me weeks and weeks wasn't anyone's favorite. I did Hide and Seek the day my computer blew up on me. I was putting in a card, and the powerboard went down. I was really irritated that I couldn't do anything that day, because I had just bought it. I had learned a lesson on my last record, never to leave the studio on a downer. Try to do something creative before you leave. Hide and Seek was basically like that. I didn't want to leave with a bad feeling so I picked up my harmonizer and played my keyboard and recorded it on my Mini-Disc recorder. From the moment I put fingers to keys, and voice to harmonizer, the song just appeared. 4 ½ minutes later, there was the structure, the harmony, and the melody. Not the lyrics, though, I always add those later. *************** Good day's work, I'd say 4 1/2 minutes for the structure, 20 minutes for the lyrics. Clearly, the song strikes a chord in everyone who hears it, and each person should take their own whack at interpretation in whatever direction has the most emotional resonance and content for the individual. The fact that it is so open to personal interpretation and not just about someone that IH had a relationship with is what makes it a great song. As I was doing it, I got very excited. It's never ever happened like that before. The only song it was like that for was Sleep, the last song on my first record. Then I spent about 4 days trying to figure out what the hell I played. It was all one performance, not tracked vocals. As you say, people really seem to have an affinity for it. I think because it doesn't really have a relationship to any genre. It's not Pop, its not Rock, its not Electronic. You can't really say you don't listen to that kind of music. It's actually a bit like a hymn. Amazing. | Reviewer: Jordan | 1/28/09 I think this song is about modern technology changing the world and taking over. Trains and sewing machines were here first, before planes and cars and everything took over. New technology is corrupting everyones' minds. "Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before" refers to oil factories messing up this world and poisoning the environment that used to be so clean. I love these lyrics because they can also be interpreted many different ways, not just this way. Imogen Heap is such a great artist. =] | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/22/09 this song is beautiful. it is open for many interpretations. this song may have been written about 9/11 but it relates to so many other things. everyone can relate it to a personal experiance. that is the beauty of music. this part... 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? sends chills down my spine. it's so powerful and innocent. almost made me cry. i love this song All good points | Reviewer: Josh | 1/24/09 I think your all wrong about trying to find a one truth in the song. At the same time I feel your all right about your views of what it means to you individually. While the artists' obviously meant to express their feelings about a certain emotional experience or their take of the one at hand,... I feel this is the beauty of music like this. Its in it's own genius. The idea that music is all about emotions, and they allowed the listener to have his/her own expressive view on things being referred to, not specifically guided like most music. Beautiful and Great lyrics no doubt. After the funeral | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/22/09 I've heard this song so many times and I just love it. But, the last time I heard it and even just now, thinking about it, I start to tear up. When I heard it last time, I suddenly had this feeling that the song was about someone who had died, an older female, like someone's mother. A family member who had been living faraway came back for the funeral, and when they went to the family's house afterward, they found everything had been given away to charity. No more furniture, no pictures on the wall, all the clothes given away. And, the family member is angry that this was done without consulting them first about it. Having recently gone to a funeral for one of my parents, I felt a connection to the song because my other parent has completely taken over the house and changed everything in it. They lived seperate lives in different houses and it feels like a takeover and I know they think it's for the best, but it feels wrong too somehow. Anyway, that's my take, although I love the analogy to 9-11 too. Fantastic song! 9/11 theory | Reviewer: simon | 1/19/09 For me the 9/11 concept is a powerful one.... First verses about the shock of the images of the towers... the dust is an obvious reference. As the building falls, the carpets leave 'crop circles' as the furniture is momentarily suspended above. The people in the streets cannot believe it, they hold their heads. 'Hide and seek' refers to looking for the missing relatives... trains and sewing machines are ordinary things, that suddenly seem out of joint. The sweeping insensitivity is the thinking that killing thousands of innocent people for a religious ideal could possibly be a good idea. 'All those years/they were here first' could be about the sudden disappearance of valued lives..likewise blood and tears. Oily marks could refer to the photos hung up of loved ones, or the stained landscape of the aftermath. Bush (and the medias response generally) cannot connect with the genuine Human feelings of those who lost relatives 'you don't care a bit' section. The Holocaust/Future world/broken relationship interpretations are also perfectly valid. Like poetry, each person puts their own interpretation on the song - which is as it should be. Once Imogen's song is in the public arena, it means what you feel it means to you, and no-one can say 'you can't think that'!!! So don't insult people for having different views.... I think.. | Reviewer: kate | 1/19/09 I think its about a man and woman and the man has suddenly become very vilont "oily marks on the walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover" the "pleasure marks" being things like photos that represented a plesurable time before "the take over" of anger and vilonce. 'Trains and sewing machines (oh you won't catch me around here" meaingind she's running away and thanks to technology it will be hard to find here. I thinks its called hide and seek because she's hiding and he's seeking her. "Ransom notes keep falling from your mouth mid sweet talk news paper cutouts" are refering to the vilont threats and the sweet talk used to apologise. You don't care a big refers to the fact the vilont man doens care. ren | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/14/09 well these are all good points and all but when i listen to the song i see the overwhelming takeover of technology in the modern world and how its disabling our ability to feel emotion. "oily marks where pleasure moments once hung before the takeover" indicates the destruction of homely residences to make way for factories etc. "trains and sewing machines" doesnt really need explaining. "blood and tears they were here first" we used to do things for ourselves to survive without the aid of technology. "mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs speak no feeling" things typed on paper express no feeling at all unlike the true spoken word. "mm watcha say? that you only meant well?" our development of technology was to make our lives easier but has slowly made us overly dependent on it to allow us to exist. "speak no feeling" "no you dont care a bit" void of emotion the 9/11 theory is good i can see your point . | Reviewer: :] | 1/13/09 i think that the song is about a sepeeration, it may not be a relationship, but seperation of a mother and a child. 911 is possible , but the words point towards a seperation . in the end , everyone has their own interpretaion of the song . its what you think it means , no what others think is right. xx This is totally Wrong... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/12/09 Okay i have this really wrong, but i thot i'd put it down anyways. i thought it was about the Industrial Revolution (1800's). When things in everyday life started to change and become more about products and speed and technology. obviously cuz of : Trains and Sewing machines ( that time is when both were invented) spin me round again, and rub my eyes, this cant be happening ( everything is so new, they cant believe it!) kinda stupid i know, i see some other comments waaaay better. i guess cuz im learing about it in history class right now, made me think about it Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: Previous 10 Pages 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next 10 Pages | |
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