Imogen Heap - The Listening Chair
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Listening Chair is taken from Imogen's 4th solo album 'Sparks' - Out now!
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Here's the song in Imogen's words:
I will never live to experience the finished feeling of this song, as it will only be finished when I die! Every 7 years, another minute is added to the song. From a fill in the blanks lullaby of the first minute to the torment of feeling you're in the wrong job, relationship and town coming into my mid 30s! 35 when I wrote this, 5 minutes long. perhaps the next 7 years will be expressing some memories of my own children? I do hope so! Inspired by the many hundreds who sat in The Listening Chair and shared with me their dreams of a 'song still to be written'. I wanted to figure out whether there was a common missing song thread people were aching for but instead something more interesting perhaps arose. Roughly each 7 year age group were concerned or wanted to hear a song about similar topics. I resonated most with those my own age at the sudden realisation perhaps I've gotten it all wrong! I settled upon writing the song to connect with all these people through us sharing life experiences over time. I look forward to every 7 years dusting off and bringing out The Listening Chair again, connecting this period in my life and those who shared this journey with me to people in my life when I'm 42, hopefully with kids in tow!
Concept by Imogen Heap
Directed by Alexander Goodman and Imogen Heap
Lighting Designer: Michael Lebor
Production Assistant: Roesja Blok
Set Design: Imogen Heap
Production Assistant: William Goodman
Set Production: Catherine Verna Bentley and Colin Gordon
Production Assistant: Marios Sofos
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It’s been almost 7 years since this song has been released which means it’s time for a new section for the Listening Chair!
It's gonna be a tough one... These last 7 years have been hard for her. Well... For everyone... but I guess Imogen losing her sister it's gonna be hard to write about that event.
She released the next section on her app.
@@biophype whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?? time to investigate
I love how progressively more complex this song gets as she ages. So damn smart.
So you're saying that in a few years when she has become older, because of that fact, the song will have changed somehow becoming more complex‽ That's more than smart, it's temporally transcendent and deific.
@@Memory7hief well yeah, every 7 years she's going to add another minute to the song. Thats the plan anyway.
She recently released a demo for the next verse on her app!
Her musical and creative vision is pretty much unmatched by anyone else around. This video is brilliant in that it so effectively communicates the often chaotic way in which our mind works. She verbalizes and visually portrays some of the mundane (but actually a little wacky) stuff we all day in our daily lives as we try to get through this thing called life and come to an understanding of who we are in it.
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often chaotic way in which "your" minds work.
Does anyone else get chills at "So suddenly I'm on my own."?
yassss
Every time!
I Get chills throughout this entire song. I can't concentrate on anything I'm doing, and end up waking up at the end, realizing I've been zoned and transfixed for the entire time. This song is so brilliant. Absolute genius.
I get chills at 'Who am I now? ...and rhe multitude echoes...who am i now
no name yes
Cat, blue, piano
Are just some of the things I like
So the more that I see of them in my day
The better I sleep at night
Mum, dad, Giles, and Juliet,
Are just some of the people I love
So the more of all them I can get in my day
The better I’ll sleep at night
I can moonwalk, build castles, play ping pong, talk to animals, hold my breath for a really long time … and tell the future
Are just six of the things I can do
And the more I can fit of these things in my day
The better I sleep at night
Ohhhhhh, the better I sleep at night
Composer or maybe an astronaut
This is what I’m gonna be when I grow up
I know cause I sing out all through the day
I fly through space by night
The teasing, the fighting, the hospitals
I don’t wanna go anymore
I put a brave face on, battle through the day
But I might cry myself to sleep
Pinch, pinch, punch, punch
Dancing round the car park after lunch
Copy cats, gold stars, cola cubes for good marks
Shy type, show off
Your mom’s got her masters, so what?
Swap stickers, best friends, knight rider
whatcha tell the time again
Popular, blonde hair, all the pretty girls sit over there
Sisters in school, he’s cool, our brother knows karate
What do I do to make you hate me so much?
Is it the clothes I wear? The way I speak?
Wonder bra thrown ‘round the German classroom
You wouldn’t understand
I’ll never live it down
Hiding in the bushes
Or tip-toeing down the corridor
Stop it, you’ll make me laugh
Why would I ever need to know this?
Somehow I’ll get through
I never want this to end
This night, this music, with you in my arms
Switch in to the real world
No idea what I’m doing
But here it goes (there she goes)
I’ve found the place, feels like home
But I caught you kissing her
So suddenly I’m on my own
There’s just not enough hours in the day
Things are going great, I can’t complain
When I stumble to bed, I sleep like a baby
Finding my feet
Make love, make money, make a difference
Finding my feet
Connect (connect)
Finding my feed
Make love, make money, make a difference
How’d you do that again?
Connect together
Ahhhhhh, I find myself gazing out of the window for no reason
Ahhhhh, when did I stop eating bread… and cheese? I love cheese
Ahhhh, I want to have children
Ahhhhh, but I don’t want to have children, you know?
Something niggling, a feeling I can’t quite explain
(Questions) online, offline, like I’m not really here
Awake or sleeping, somehow can’t tell the difference
Twilight outside, dark deep down within
It’s a cover up, it was a cover up operation, oh no
honing in, I’m honing in on the heart of it all
Toughen up, I’ve got to toughen up
Coz I’m breaking it all apart
What’s at the heart
What’s at the heart of it all?
Who am I now?
Who am I now?
Thank you. Very much))
The lyrics... They're just matchless. With a few words, she spoke volumes.
The "stop it, you'll make me laugh!" part is really adorable
My most favorite singer. Remember her when i was 9, i saw her walking around the park near my training center in the UK. She heard me singin, shes too kind and jolly she approached me and told me that i could sing. Now, im also a musician and a composer for different artists here in the philippines. And my son also loves your music. Thank you Imogen Heap for inspiring The Cuddly Sage to reach for his dreams!
It's amazing how effective you can be without any effects budget just using your creativity and skillful timing
Wow, think I've just spent 5½ minutes in Imogen's head
+Mark Dootson 5½ minutes and 35 years.
actually, you are in the people's heads who helped make the project "the listening chair" by telling their stories from different age groups and letting imogen write a song so that every one can connect to a song together. you should watch the behind the scenes, it's really interesting!
Actually, this is ALL Immy... She simply used their ideas in order to form the song.. She asked what they wanted to hear in a song.. So she wrote her journey through life thus far, in seven year intervals. The very first part in the making of and the description on this video tell us this is her story.
Mark Dootson I bet my ass emoji likes Satan ( yes calling her emoji bc wtf imogen )
@@luiza3581 Are you ok
Found this song completely at random while listening to Imogen's other songs. Completely. Blown. Away. So it's clear it goes through toddler/pre-school > middle school > high school > college/independence, and then... a mid life crisis? Wow. Just whoa wow.
this song, this face, this artist, I can't get enough
After watching the behind the scenes, I watch this from a whole new perspective.
2:10-4:10 is perfect and makes me cry.
Hi Beckie!
I'm assuming the bts is about the location? It looks like some shelter
i don't know why - but i can relate to this video
I haven't watched the behind the scenes yet, but I am definitely going to! I feel like there are a lot of deep meanings behind this, one being human vulnerability.
The whole thing makes me want to cry. There are so many musicians and artists who are far, far less talented than her but somehow get all the praise. No matter. As long as she is still producing music and videos, I'll be happy.
Everyone needs to watch the Behind the Scenes. It's perfect. It puts everything into perspective.
It is unfortunate that not everyone will realize how ingenious this song truly is.
Brilliant.
When you finish watching the video and it's pretty late, and you feel like it's a song about your life .. then turn it back to the start. Remind what made you happy when you were a child, end up on that part and go to sleep. Nothing good will bring reflection and worry
Being a 20-year-old man, I can't say I'm able to relate to most of this song, but it still touches me so strongly. I didn't really like it after the first listen, but with every play, I just love it more and more. I feel that Imogen really dug deep to create this track, and it's so original, I can't help but appreciate the heck out of it. This is what music is all about.
Imogen and a younger Kate Bush would hang out together.
This is a great work. I love it when she does the purely vocal work, like with Earth.
So much ear candy.
And her Neglected Space.. pure magic! ✨
Don't forget Björk too. 😉😉
Imogen Actually met Bjork while in Iceland I think during her Mycelia World Tour. IIRC she fangirled hard. lol
This song is supposed to get "updated" every seven years, so the next part is supposed to come out next year, and boy, am I excited
This is my all-time favorite music video of Imogen's. It's so well made, and there's so much personality in it. It does an amazing job of telling the story of the song, completely, without missing a single lyric, it's absolutely amazing.
I LOVE the fourth part (age 21-28), the 5/4 beat is so soothing... :)
More 5/4th beat, please! :)
yes it’s so inspiring! the age 28-35 makes me think she must have been feeling quite stressed (possibly with the restoring her childhood home and working so hard on her albums)
@MultiBurst i think it's
I’ve found the place, feels like home
But I caught you kissing her
So suddenly I’m on my own
There’s just not enough hours in the day
Things are going great, I can’t complain
When I stumble to bed, I sleep like a baby
Finding my feet
Make love, make money, make a difference
Finding my feet
Connect (connect)
Finding my feed
Make love, make money, make a difference
How’d you do that again?
Connect together
The thing I love about her is that you can go back to her music again and again over the years. It never seems dated or the flavour of the month. It's just odd and wonderful. If only more artists allowed themselves to be as inventive.
Anyone noticed how this champion of existence does not have a VEVO account?
she does has have one but this is her other chanel so she can moderate them some more or she might have retired from VEVO
Sumtinrandom. I like this channel better vevo ehh its okay
Damn even your house is creative and quirky! I can't be the only one that wants a tour of your never ending circular hallway filled with fun and interesting stuff??
I heavily envy the people that were invited to her house for the Sparks Album Release party and got a tour of her house. You have no idea.
The woman is a genius.
2 more years and we get an addition, at least I hope!
Wow! Nearly time for another verse already! ☺️✨
It's so beautiful and refreshing to see an artist treat music as an art, with an explorer's mindset and thirst for adventure, discovery - and not just something to sell. Imogen Heap is truly unparalleled at what she does.
This is the first album i've bought in ages. I think its the finest piece of music in at least 10 years. Imogen you are going into the history books; absolutely brilliant album....total masterpiece as usual. It has given me so much inspiration for my own music and i've been listening to sparks for literally 5 days straight now. This album is absolutely human and beautifully tragic, I can't wait for your next release. Blown away with the emotional weight of this album.
If you like this I highly recommend you get her album Ellipse from 2009. It's my favorite "traditional" Album and is one of my top 5 fave records ever.
Till today i never understood how someone can have a crush on a musician.... well till today.
Cant stop listening to that bautiful voice.
this song gives me chills and makes me wanna cry simultaneously
I feel like I was just hit in the face with a yacht. This is such an amazing piece of art. You are a TRUE genius, Imogen! Thank you for being who you are, and doing what you do! You are such an inspiration!
remains to be one of my favorite songs ever made
Imogen’s enchanted basement cave of her mind, lovely!
listening to this song at 15 and at 20 is a very different experience... i feel i connect with and understand the emotion and story of each lyric
I'm still waiting for the next video I can't wait. I was a senior in high school when I first heard this song/video for the first time and I'm so excited to see what's next!
This is not a song, or a music video, or poetry, or a short film. This is something else; I feel this is one of the most important and representative pieces of art of our generation. I'm in awe.
i wanted to write something smart here, but this song has all questions and all answers in it. So i remain still and admire this level of awesomeness.
I always skip this song when RUclips auto-plays it . But tonight after a few drinks it came on I have a whole new understanding of it. I am enchanted now.
First time watching this, I thought the song was slightly dizzying but cute. Second time...I realized what a good song this actually is. It's like a timeline of life, put to music. Beautiful.
Imogen, I don't think you understand what you've done here, you've drawn us all in so far and so deep that I just find myself desperate to know more, you've laid your heart bare and you've pulled me in so far that I now want to step in and help!
I'm in love with this song and I listen to it every day.
Beautifully disturbing and gutwrenching, its like watching my life flash before me from childhood to disconnected adult.
How come I only found this masterpiece now?
What have I done all my life!?
I'm watching this over and over again
"Make love. Make money. Make a difference. Connect."
Perfect. So beautiful Imogen. You never disappoint.
A masterpiece! Cannot wait for Sparks to come out, it's been a long 5 years!
I love how it sounds as she says "I'll never live it down" and "Stop it, you'll make me laugh"
I love how it sounds.
That’s all. Just all of it. I love it.
She really is a beautiful Soul.
i go somewhere else entirely when i listen to her music, thank you imogen heap
Cat, blue, piano. After hearing the behind the scenes I cant stop listening to this, it is so uplifting. It's a chance to listen to the mind of a child at the start of the song, expressing her innocent world of endless possibilities. Going into her teens some of that spark is lost as disappointment and doubt sets in through various life struggles. Seeing how life unfolds like this reminds me we should not let "reality" and "experience" take away that spark. Towards the end it gets sinister reflective of a quarter life crisis - I can totally relate to this. I think we all can. It is a beautiful, honest song. The world NEEDS more music like this. I have to admit though - I tend to pause before the sinister part - the beginning makes me smile and has become my pick-me-up music. Simple pleasures.
I put on my headphones and closed my eyes... It's like a wonderful adventure... Wow
It's so unique in my opinion!
A good example that Music is not just a 4x4 pounder drum beat.
How you make music and how you can move the emotion across is all up to you!
And she does it very well in her own way. It's rare to see originality like this in todays music industry :(
I cannot get enough of this video! Reading the lyrics, the music, watching this video, this whole song is such genius. So sad it's not radio friendly but she's so inspirational- it's addicting!
its really upsetting of how underrated she is. her music is pure genius
Astonishingly, beautifully entrancing, magical, funny, sometimes unsettlingly neurotic, and impossible to stop watching. Imogen is an incandescent force of nature, a true genius in whom I hear echoed far horizon shades of artistes as diverse as Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Akiko Yano, Suzanne Vega, Loreena McKennitt, Virginia Astley, Alison Goldfrapp, Little Boots, Janelle Monáe, Sa Dingding and Laurie Anderson in many of her creations, with fka twigs looming up as a sinistral spectre in her background shadows. Yet she is utterly unique, and I firmly believe that Imogen will one day be regarded as a true British national treasure.
Musically and compositionally, this album stands up very well to favourable comparison with Brian Wilson's SMiLE (while stylistically and culturally parsecs apart), and may well be seen in future times as this decade's equally revered masterpiece. And for the vast majority of artistes, a piece of this intricacy, this beauty, this naked honesty, would be more than enough for a whole career.
I can think of only one video that matches this for sheer creativity, for such attention to detail, for offbeat humour, and for a comparable torrent of ideas, and that is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer (...and perhaps Tom Tom Club's Wordy Rappinghood comes as close as any, too - but that video only exists in my head). It's just a shame that they missed each other by about 3 decades. Can you imogene (...sorry, couldn't resist) what a collaboration between those 2 might have sparked off? That's the iniquity of time for you!
Btw... at 3:24... is that really a cannabis plant I spy on the left side of her small hadron collider des res? Just don't tell 'em, Heap! It's just between the two of us, OK?
I love Janelle Monae as much as I love Imogen, and I'm pleasantly surprised to hear her name mentioned on an Immi video :) You have good taste!
I also got Leila Arab vibes, but maybe she is inspired by Imogen. and if they are completely unrelated, that's ok. I feel mature enough to appreciate this lady's work. so different and beautiful!
i've lost count of how many times i've seen this video. i love it! :)
Imogen Heap is GOAT she has so many immaculate and brilliant musix on my favs of all time. She is a musical hug. ♡
I love that she became a composer when she grew up
Behold a true artist----sublime invention.
The fact that an amazing person like her exist in this world makes me still have faith in humanity :)
It's brilliant and fun and everything!
After watching the video that explains how Imogen Heap made this song, I've found myself thinking about it often. After 20 or more listens to the words, it is like peeling back layers. The song is so thoughtful and complex! It really pays off. Bravo Immi!!!
She's such an unique and brilliant artist. If I met her, I'd die.
Imogen you are just brilliant! My favourite woman in the industry. This is a beautiful song, thank you for not being afraid to expose your true self like you seem to have done here. One of the reasons i love you so much! There is no one out there like you :)
Blown away. I don't even understand how one person can be so amazing and creative.
I feel like Imogen would be so much fun to hang out with :D
A heap of creativity unbounded
Again Immi leaves me astounded
I Love this so much. I never want this to end!!
Imogen's music has been so key in so many times of my life, so awaiting this album and how it would fit into the experience of living has been exciting. This song grabbed me early, and now after watching the behind the scenes, it hits on a whole new level. Full range of emotion, genius, such an important song. Imogen, you are truly an artist like no other.
What a wonderful piece. I always find myself in tears at the 5/4 section.
I love Imogen! I still remember when she high fived my brother at a Seattle boys choir performance! She is AMAZING LIVE!!!
wow - I watched this video many times - amazing, same like the song - Love.
Listening to this song for the first time was very difficult and challenging, but after learning it was the song of her life and watching this video, I'm really engaged by it. Thanks for all the hard work, Imogen! Keep sharing your music with the world.
Getting really close to that next minute of the song. I had no idea it had been this long!
How great was that? The song, the lyrics, the video, all of the editing. Simply amazing. Art in everything. That's Imogen Heap right there, right here. Thanks for being a human being without the fear of exposing how great a talent you are.
your music and videos make me feel like I can do something with my boring life and have more fun :D I'm already having fun just watching it :D
"The life is a string, lined from years of colorful life, they leave their trail through the experience, experience."
Sometimes there is a piece of music, a progression or harmony, that is so beautiful that I have a kind of momentary and exquisite panic in my heart and soul. 2:55 has done it to me once again.
God i love this artist and her music. WONDERFUL...!!!
Her songs are always so stream of consciousness.
My love. That was amazing. You've taken over my heart.
Just tremendous... loved the way the tonality, rhythm, and mood changed throughout the song...
Absolutely Beautiful!! Reminds me of the first time I listened to the album Hounds of Love by Kate Bush. I never want this to end! Love Heap Forever!
Love her and all her music. Genius. This song is so amazing and touching. The ending gives me chills.
This is the most beautiful song I have ever heard. It deserves way more attention, as well as Imogen Heap.
Never fails to excite and inspire. I can't wait to listen to the album as a whole.
I found this song through another musician, and I played song and game for hours trying to get through a tough area. The two are inseparable in my memory. This song is still so good.
Still get goosebumps around :50 seconds when she explodes into "Tell the Future". Still...even after seeing this 10 times since Wednesday.
FAVORITE ARTIST ALERT! Thank you so much for being so fantastic, Imogen and team...you've inspired me for years. "Hold my breath for a really long time and tell the future" PFFFT THIS IS THE BEST
Just watched it twice in a row. Will be playing it all night. She is one of my heroes. What a brave, fascinating song. So much there.
This literally brings me to tears. It's ingenious and so wonderfully performed and executed.
She is so awesome, so imaginative and original and beautiful too! What a display of talents.
this is such a beautiful song... i love all the different parts and they all sound so amazing and unique... especially the last part...
Such a fantastic song and amazing video!
OH MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FULL ALBUM!!!!!!!!
Amazing
This song is absolutely breath taking, and the video just enhances it. I think this is quite possibly my favorite music video ever.
I know it has been 5 years since the last update to this video and I hope to see a new update to it sometime. I feel it is a pretty good video of the transition person has gone through since the late 80s. this video is a great representation of the common feedback Imogen has received over the years as she has had this "Listening Chair". She honestly does listen to people as she does an excellent job of incorporating their feelings and viewpoints throughout our modern history. Most telling is the last phrase, "Who am now?". This is her callout to people around now as she develops the next chapter of the song. I have love watching it develop over the years and I feel it is an excellent representation of how people think/feel in this generation.
What an incredibly creative tune. I don't remember how I discovered this artist as I was buying music, but I was awestruck. As she sings "I'll never live it down!!" I am sure she was inspired by Laurie Anderson and Brian Eno because she is an inspired combination of them both, along with so many other artists--and her own voice as well. This is not just derivative stuff! I have all her albums and will continue to enjoy as long as she intends to create!
Anyone else cry by the end? I'm about in my mid twenties and I really get the whole "Gazing out of the window" bit.
I really love how Honest she is. this is the most genuine music and video I have seen. I find her to be the one of the greatest musicians to walk the earth. blooming with creativity . I am in Love.
This was so crafty and lovely, so enjoyable and honestly such a breath of fresh air to most 'new' music that is released these days. Loved it, and CANNOT WAIT to get me hands on the album!