Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap song)

Infobox Single
Name = Hide and Seek
Artist = Imogen Heap


from Album = Speak for Yourself
B-side = "Cumulus"
Format = Paid download, vinyl
Released = 19 May 2005
Writer = Imogen Heap
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Electronic
Length = 4:16
Label = Megaphonic
Producer = Imogen Heap
Chart position
Last single =
This single = "Hide and Seek"
(2005)
Next single = "Goodnight and Go"
(2006)

"Hide and Seek" is the first single by Imogen Heap from her album "Speak for Yourself". The song is performed with the sole accompaniment being the sound produced by a harmonizer (DigiTech Vocalist Workstation), [Remix Magazine Interview: Imogen Heap, http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_imogen_heap/] creating an altered a cappella sound.

Television

The song was featured in the second season finale of "The O.C.", on the seasons two and four of the TV series "So You Think You Can Dance", during the final scenes of the premiere episode of the CBS primetime drama "Smith", an episode from season three of the Showtime TV show "The L Word", episode 5 of MTV reality show, ', and on the finale of ' episode "If Looks Could Kill". The track was also used in the 2006 film "The Last Kiss". In May 2007, the song featured in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrTKsF9BFwk UK promo] for "Lost", on Sky One. It was also featured as a background song in the commercials for the first season of NBC's series "Heroes", the Norwegian version of "Survivor" and UK previews for the Season 3 finale of "Lost". Warren Miller's film "Off the Grid" featured "Hide and Seek" in one of the final segments.

In 2007, "Saturday Night Live" comically used the song in a Digital Short called "The Shooting" to parody its use in several TV shows. In the short, characters cut each other's scenes off by pulling out guns and shooting each other as the refrain plays over their slow-motion deaths. NBC was unable to upload the clip to YouTube immediately after the show because it hadn't cleared the song, but fans uploaded it on their own, naming it "Dear Sister". It became an Internet phenomenon, spawning a number of parodies in which scenes of real and fictional violence are punctuated with the refrain.cite web |first= Noam |last= Cohen |title= Taking Violence to a New, Technological Absurdity |date= 2007-05-07 |accessdate= 2007-05-07 |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07link.html |publisher=The New York Times]

Charts

Mixes

*Album version – 4:16
*Single version – 4:28
*Tiësto's in Search of Sunrise mix – 8:31

Release history

References