History Music / ImogenHeap

* {{Blackmail}}: "A-Ha!"

Imogen Heap (born December 9, 1977) is a famous alternative singer from Essex, England. She began writing music as a teenager, having [[ChildProdigy learned to play and taught herself to play many instruments as a teenager.]] She got her start in recording music as a guest vocalist for the band Music/{{Acacia}}. After Acacia ended, she released her first solo album, ''i Megaphone''. However, despite its popularity, record problems and budget issues resulted in her being dropped from her record label. She began collaborating with Guy Sigsworth, Acacia's programmer and keyboard player. Forming the duo Music/FrouFrou, they released a single album, ''Details'', in 2002. After getting dropped from their label, Imogen created her second solo album, ''Speak For Yourself'' in 2005, and followed it with ''Ellipse'' in 2009. Her fourth album, ''Sparks'', was released in 2014.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: She has one to rival Music/LadyGaga. More recently, at the Grammys, she wore a dress that displayed the {{Twitter}} messages of fans.

* {{Hypocrite}}: "Aha!"'s first two verses -- one is about a man who, while saying he couldn't eat wheat, or meat, or dairy (because of his own choices, not because of allergies), later ate a chocolate biscuit containing wheat and dairy, knowing its contents. Imogen wasn't amused (especially since she'd just taken a huge amount of care to make him a dinner he could eat). The second verse is about one of her neighbours, who, despite being an environmental activist, wanted to cut down a tree so he could see his car. Imogen really wasn't amused. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick The third verse is about a murderer.]]

** "Loose Ends", "Angry Angel", "I Am in Love with You", "Clear the Area", "Little Bird", "Bad Body Double", "Wait It Out"...

Imogen Heap is a famous alternative singer from Essex, England. She began writing music as a teenager, having [[ChildProdigy learned to play and taught herself to play many instruments as a teenager.]] She got her start in recording music as a guest vocalist for the band Music/{{Acacia}}. After Acacia ended, she released her first solo album, ''i Megaphone''. However, despite its popularity, record problems and budget issues resulted in her being dropped from her record label. She began collaborating with Guy Sigsworth, Acacia's programmer and keyboard player. Forming the duo Music/FrouFrou, they released a single album, ''Details'', in 2002. After getting dropped from their label, Imogen created her second solo album, ''Speak For Yourself'' in 2005, and followed it with ''Ellipse'' in 2009. Her fourth album, ''Sparks'', was released in 2014.

* {{Parental Love Song}}: The song she did for Sennhaiser, [[https://youtu.be/QKiZJCFYAbg "Tiny Human"]], is one for her baby daughter, Scout

Imogen Heap is a famous alternative singer from Essex, England. She began writing music as a teenager, having [[ChildProdigy learned to play and taught herself to play many instruments as a teenager.]] She got her start in recording music as a guest vocalist for the band Music/{{Acacia}}. After Acacia ended, she released her first solo album, ''i Megaphone''. However, despite its popularity, record problems and budget issues resulted in her being dropped from her record label. She began collaborating with Guy Sigsworth, Acacia's programmer and keyboard player. Forming the duo Music/FrouFrou, they released a single album, ''Details'', in 2002. After getting dropped from their label, Imogen created her second solo album, ''Speak For Yourself'' in 2005, and followed it with ''Ellipse'' in 2009. Since then, she's been working on her fourth album.

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Imogen Heap is a famous alternative singer from Essex, England. She began writing music as a teenager, having [[ChildProdigy learned to play and taught herself to play many instruments as a teenager.]] She got her start in recording music as a guest vocalist for the band Acacia. After Acacia ended, she released her first solo album, ''i Megaphone''. However, despite its popularity, record problems and budget issues resulted in her being dropped from her record label. She began collaborating with Guy Sigsworth, Acacia's programmer and keyboard player. Forming the duo FrouFrou, they released a single album, ''Details'', in 2002. After getting dropped from their label, Imogen created her second solo album, ''Speak For Yourself'' in 2005, and followed it with ''Ellipse'' in 2009. Since then, she's been working on her fourth album.

A large part of her popularity comes from the presence of "Let Go", FrouFrou's SignatureSong, in the movie ''Garden State'', and the use of "Hide and Seek"- first in the season 2 finale of ''TheOC'', then in the 'Dear Sister' skit on SaturdayNightLive, and finally in Jason Derulo's song 'Whatcha Say'. Unfortunately, the latter has led to many people only knowing her for "Hide and Seek". Given her worldwide popularity, this is sure to change.
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* AntiLoveSong: "I Am In Love With You", "The Walk", possibly "Loose Ends"
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Hide and Seek" and "Just For Now".

* BigScrewedUpFamily: "Just For Now"

* DownerEnding: ''Speak For Yourself'', a quite peppy, quirky album, ends with the slow, dramatic and somewhat scary "The Moment I Said It".

* EvilTwin: "Bad Body Double"

* GaiasLament/[[GaiasRevenge Revenge]]: "Earth", where the earth itself is an annoyed mother chastising humanity, her children.
* {{Hypocrite}}: "Aha!"'s first two verses- one is about a man who, while saying he couldn't eat wheat, or meat, or dairy (because of his own choices, not because of allergies), later ate a chocolate biscuit containing wheat and dairy, knowing its contents. Imogen wasn't amused (especially since she'd just taken a huge amount of care to make him a dinner he could eat). The second verse is about one of her neighbours, who, despite being an environmental activist, wanted to cut down a tree so he could see his car. Imogen really wasn't amused. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick The third verse is about a murderer.]]

* LastNoteNightmare: Both the beginning ''and'' ending to "Leave Me To Love".

--> Do it for all the times we wished we had"

** "Loose Ends", "Angry Angel", "I Am In Love With You", "Clear The Area", "Little Bird", "Bad Body Double", "Wait It Out"...

* ObsessionSong: "Goodnight and Go" is a very sweet song...but there's one part in particular...

--> ''And you think you're alone…''"

--> '''Slapping someone obnoxious in "First Train Home":''' "This is an echo game / Irises retreating to ovals of white / The urge to feel your face and blood rushing to paint / My handprint"
--> '''Waking up beside her lover in "Between Sheets":''' "The many windswept yellow stickies of my mind / Or the molten emotional front line / I couldn't care less I'm transfixed in this absolute bliss"
* {{Scatting}}: She ''loves'' this trope.

* StalkerWithACrush: "Goodnight and Go"

* SweetDreamsFuel: "Can't Take It In", the song she made for the soundtrack from [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe]].
** "Sleep"

* UnlimitedWardrobe: She has one to rival LadyGaga. More recently, at the Grammys, she wore a dress that displayed the {{Twitter}} messages of fans.

* CreatorBacklash[=/=]ToughActToFollow: While she's certainly still fond of it, she believes that what made "Hide and Seek", arguably her most famous song, special is impossible to recreate and therefore she's not ever going to try to do so.

--> [[StalkerWithACrush Follow you home]]

--> ''And you think you're alone…''

* PrecisionFStrike: In "Bad Body Double":
--> "We look very similar except she's got some grays and a little extra weight on the sides and dimply thighs, I hear that stuff's a bitch to get rid of."
* PurpleProse: ''Ellipse'' saw her turning this into an art form, to express intangible feelings via concrete sentences.
--> '''Slapping someone obnoxious in "First Train Home":''' "Irises retreating to ovals of white / The urge to feel your face and blood rushing to paint / My handprint"

* SignatureSong: "Hide and Seek"
* ShrugOfGod: Imogen Heap is not telling us what "Hide and Seek" is about, no matter how often her fans ask.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, she wrote "2-1" for the soundtrack to the Film/PrinceCaspian film, but it was rejected and the track ended up on ''Ellipse''.
** Same thing happened to "Entanglement" for the film of [[{{Literature/Twilight}} "Breaking Dawn"]]. Apparently, the lyrics were considered too raunchy.

** Same thing happened to "Entanglement" for the film of [[Literature/Twilight "Breaking Dawn"]]. Apparently, the lyrics were considered too raunchy.

** She did it again with ''Sparks''

* ''Sparks'' (due out sometime in March 2014)

* WordOfGod: Subverted. The lyrics to "Hide and Seek" are incredibly ambiguous, and Heap refuses to tell the general public what the song is actually about.

A large part of her popularity comes from the presence of "Let Go", FrouFrou's SignatureSong, in the movie ''Garden State'', and the use of "Hide and Seek"- first in the season 3 finale of ''TheOC'', then in the 'Dear Sister' skit on SaturdayNightLive, and finally in Jason Derulo's song 'Whatcha Say'. Unfortunately, the latter has led to many people only knowing her for "Hide and Seek". Given her worldwide popularity, this is sure to change.

* AnimeHair: Some of her hairdos are very large and gravity-defying.

* WordSaladLyrics: "Lifeline", "Tidal" and "Daylight Robbery", though they still convey quite a lot of meaning in an almost [[Creator/LewisCarrol Carrolian]] fashion.

* WordSaladLyrics: "Lifeline", "Tidal" and "Daylight Robbery".
** But the lyrics still convey quite a lot of meaning in an almost Carrolian fashion. In "Lifeline," it's clear that she's talking about a family crisis that comes up despite the full life that the speaker has. "an instant of great white gravity" might sound like nonsense at first, but it evokes the idea of a moment so serious that it threaten to swallow you up, like a great white shark.

--> [[FanService You're taking everything off]]