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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 2/ 85) ------ performed by Imogen Heap 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. Completely agree with Tyler!!! | Reviewer: Kaitlin | 11/2/09 Just had to say I totally agree with Tyler's review! Especially with the analysis of the "oily marks on the walls"!! Brilliant. The "sweeping insensitivity" line just adds to the cheating lover theory...beautiful song, haunting voice.. cheating lover | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/3/09 my take on it is that it's about a deep long-lasting relationship, maybe a marriage, that has been disrupted by the (let's say) husband having an affair. the song very much centers around the family home and i think hide and seek has many meanings-it was played in the house, the husband is hiding from the facts of what hes done etc 'where are we what the hell is going on' -shes confused about hat has happened. 'the where are we' refers to their relationship. 'the dust has only just begun to fall crop circles in the carpet' -its only just happened and there are literally marks in the carpet from where furniture has been moved. 'spin me round and rub my eyes' - shes really confused and her life has been spun around by the news. 'trains and sewing machines' - maybe they have kids and these are the things that are a part of the family home that has been disrupted by the affair 'all those years/blood and tears they were here first' - the couple have been through a lot before this event that changed everything 'oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before' -pictures of family times were taken down and all thats left is the oily mark. 'the takeover' -could be the takeover of another woman or the new way of life after the affair was outed the 'mmm watcha say...' bit is like dialogue between the couple, him trying to justify what he did and her sarcasm-'well of course you did' it's a really beautiful and complicated song but i think once you understand the meaning it's simple. i feel sorry for the guy who thinks its about kidnap :O and the holocaust and what-not cause its blatantly not. xx <3 Being dumped | Reviewer: Jen Finn | 11/3/09 I reckon it could easily be about being cheated on but having just been broken up with, it's really resonating with me and I find myself singing this now and really feeling this is what I feel! "where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling" This is the confusion before the break up, when the relationship is slipping through your fingers and you don't know why. the dust is forming on your relationship, on your photographs, on the things you shared and there's this sinking feeling of losing the one you love "spin me round again and rub my eyes, this can't be happening when busy streets a mess with people would stop to hold their heads heavy" utter confusion/devastation... how can this be happening and people just continue as normal "hide and seek trains and sewing machines all those years they were here first" literally no idea how to relate this but I just feel its you seeking answers, confusion "oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life hide and seek trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here) blood and tears (hearts) they were here first" "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?" This is what you're saying How can this be the best? Why's this your decision and not mine? And you humour them, like yeah course, this pain is the 'best' option "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" you're defending yourself but it doesn't matter you don't really wants best, you don't care about the relationship I'm pretty sure I'm just desperately relating it to my own situation but this is how I feel Many meanings | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/1/09 I don't think the symbolism pertains to just one thing. It could be a lover or a war or the holocaust. Any low point in time could have this song to justify it. IT is beautiful and people need to think of this song as how they percieve it and not argue about its meaning Kidnapping? | Reviewer: DH | 11/1/09 where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling At the start she is disorientated because she has been kidnapped, thats why she asked where she is and whats going on, crop circles in the carpet literally means that furniture has been moved away from where she is being held, leaving the marks in the carpet, however the crop circles itself is a metaphor for someone alien abducting her. She has a sinking feeling. spin me round again and rub my eyes, this can't be happening when busy streets a mess with people would stop to hold their heads heavy Here she is being spun around by the kidnapper to lose her sense of direction, she still cant believe whats happening and that no one in the busy streets can stop it. hide and seek trains and sewing machines all those years they were here first Her abduction itself is being portayed by the game of hide and seek, because at the moment she is being hidden, and there are people out looking for her. Train and sewing machines, possibly she was abducted on a train, im not sure. 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? This is the kidnapper communicating with the family, saying he needs the money and doesnt want to hurt her, and at the end is the family asking what she has said. 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 Ranson notes keep falling out your mouth, this is quite literal to the kidnapper passing ransom notes to the family. Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts, is the kidnapper using words cut from newspapers to write his ransom notes. At the end she is talking to the kidnapper with you dont care a bit. It is about cheating | Reviewer: Tyler | 10/28/09 I wholly disagree that this song is a metaphor or about the holocaust. This song IS about her cheating lover. She just found out. "Hide and seek" refers to her confusion whether to stay away from him or speak to him. "Mmmm whatcha say, Mmm that you only meant well? well of course you did" She is referring to his lame justification and that of course he never meant to hurt her "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?" She is referring to things people say like this will add to their strength or his infideltuty bringing a a problem into specefic relief. "Mmmm what did she say?" What did the NEW girl say, you bastard? Oily marks that appear on the walls is where they would have sex and the lube/oils from their hands left prints from "where pleasure moments hung before" It goes on and on but it is DEFINITELY not a metaphor or about the Jewish strife. It is indisputably about her despair after a cheating lover confesses to her. "They were here first"---all our good times came before this. We are stronger than this moment, we havent always been bad together. The Holocaust?? Come on! I love this song. It is a key-hole gimpse ito her upside-down world and brilliantly done. muliti-Meaning/ Symbolism | Reviewer: LaMonica16 | 10/27/09 this song has a great deal of symbolism and metaphors in it. "where are we? what the hell is going on" anger. shes frustrated at life's multiple changes that people like u and me have to deal with thru life. the dust and crop stains are where someone has moved out her life and how much emtiness is left-"sinking feeling". and the trains represent transition.the sewing machine is a symbol of making something new again.and how she doesnt think she going to move on and forgive "i dont belierve u, u dont care a bit". and all of the "blood n tears" she went thru in the relationship.shes nothing without him now."the sweeping insensitivity if this still life"..idk thats what i got out of it mostly.. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages