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It's full of meaning, but it has no meaning. Heap described the song as one which "doesn't connect to a genre, it's completely open", adding "It's full of color, but it's colorless.

The song ends with a sample of a train passing by.

Fans have speculated that the song was written about the divorce of Heap's parents at age 12. It is a ballad whose lyrics are about having painfully lost someone and how others react to things that happen to someone else. Heap uses a keyboard-controlled digital harmonizer (similar to a vocoder) on the song to generate distorted harmonies of her voice, lending the song its altered a cappella sound.
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"Hide and Seek" was released on, the same day that it was featured in the season two finale of the Fox television series The O.C., " The Dearly Beloved". The song is written in the key of A major and Heap's vocals span from B2 to B5. Although she was frequently told during recording that "something was missing" from it, she decided to release it after sending it to a friend who called it "genius" and "the most amazing thing he had ever heard". During the making of "Hide and Seek", Heap said she found the song "so self indulgent" and believed that no one would enjoy it. "Hide and Seek" was recorded during a late-night studio session, where Heap decided to record her voice using the "vocoder" setting on a DigiTech Vocalist Workstation harmonizer after her computer lost power. 2 Critical reception and commercial performance.The song also appeared on NPR's 2018 list of The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+. Heap performed "Hide and Seek" during the 2017 benefit concert One Love Manchester and during her 2019 performance on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts series. It was also a critical success, and has been cited by several critics as Heap's best song. "Hide and Seek" went on to sell over 647,000 copies in the United States, earning it a gold certification from the RIAA. It was notably sampled in the 2009 single " Whatcha Say" by American singer Jason Derulo, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It gained renewed popularity after use in an episode of the Hulu television series Normal People. and in a subsequent Saturday Night Live parody of the scene The Shooting. "Hide and Seek" first gained popularity after being used in the season two finale of the Fox television series The O.C. It is an a cappella folktronica ballad which makes heavy use of the harmonizer, written about painfully losing someone. The song was released on as the first single from her second album Speak for Yourself, and was written and produced by Heap.

" Hide and Seek" is a song recorded by English singer Imogen Heap.
