At 3:46 she looks kinda like a robot the way she's moving haha! Which would make sense, cause it doesn't seem possible that one human being can possess so much talent and creativity! She truly is amazing
This is a good example of how personal taste and fame can provide both "it's poor quality work" and "it's genius and amazing work" as responses to the same video. If you saw this performance on Britain's Got Talent you'd say to yourself "Hey, she has potential, but she needs to get singing lessons" and if you're an Imogen Heap fan you say "OMG OMG OMG I LUV HER SO, THIS WAS AWESOME" and in reality it's a lovely performance that has lovely flaws which help color and shape the performance.
And of course, my view of 'reality' is my own. The only true flaw is "clambelling cliche" which kinda sticks out, but I'm totally ok with the way she sings some parts with shallow breath. It brings to mind the feeling of immediacy, personal experience, introspection, and stark humanity.
This song is phenomenal. The lyrics tell a simple story but its execution is a masterpiece! I just had to write about this song on my blog, line from a lyric at blogspot. The title of the post is "this too shall pass, for real".
Imogen released instrumental versions of all the songs in "Ellipse". I really like her stripped-down versions, where it's just her and the piano, and maybe she could released some stripped down versions with her next album :)
Beautiful song and great live performance ... and such a lovely piano theme !
And the lyrics capture me, especially the part: " Everybody says that time heals everything ... but what of the wretched hollow - the endless in between ...
This is one of my very favorite songs. Every version I've heard I love. Emotional truth and artistry count for so much IMO when it comes to music. There are so many people out there with great voices but their music is emotionally dead and hollow. She's so creative, and I love the truth and passion in her voice when she sings.
Her wonderful synth-voice on her albums is EXACTLY the same as her live voice. She is a great singer and she has ALL my respect! More singers need to be able to sing in real life, they hardly write their own music, let alone do anything else useful. It leads me to wonder why they are singers in the first place IF THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY SING! Anyone can sit there and get autotuned and sing, and most of the lyrics are weak and the artist's image is crappy. It's very saddening to me.
just because it isn't a "studio recording" people automatically discount this as a poor performance? Imogen Heap is extremely talented...it just goes to show that ignorance is running rampant like the lion...she is fantastic and un-processed!!!
Not all music is meant for dancing. And to judge by "perfect pitch" is to desparately miss the point. Personal communication, torment & eventual exhaustion/resignation, are the point here.It's not about Pop Diva here, it's about a person, a real person. A single plaintive voice, broken and resigned.
You must see that alone on a TV stage w/only a piano, millions of viewers peering at you through the microscope, cameramen scurrying to get in your face, seeking to view your personal pain, is the loneliest place on the planet. It is the perfect setting for this personal surrender. She lays her soul bare for all to see. "...and what of the wretched hollow, the endless in-between...."
This song hits me square in the chest and takes my breath away. The live performance is even more intense. This song speaks to many parts of my life, and I thank Imogen Heap for capturing raw emotion in this song.
Her recorded songs have such emotion, Hide and Seek and Wait it Out have such raw emotion and i love them to peices, but honestly- i will never again listen to her live. it ruins the illusion with her lack of pitch.
Mr. Imogen Heap (a.k.a. Lloyd Bartlett of Kingston on the Thames) has a wife and 2 children. Before beginning his pop career he impersonated, on the London club circuit, Cher, Madonna, Blondie, Sheryl Crow and Tina Turner.
Wow, so passionate. I got goosebumps. People always looks for the lyrics or how technical or advanced a song is to judge it. But to me, what's really important is the feeling it gives you.
A true artist, with more soul, more talent, and more class in her pinky than the rest of the "scene" can even dream of having. "Ellipse" is easily the best album of 2009, if not the past few years. A musical genius.
it's kinda sad how Imogen Heap's songs are in a lot of things, Garden State, The Holiday, Chuck, Jason DeRulo's Whatcha Say off the top of my head but people don't know who she is...
she's a true musical genius...her songs are so full of emotion...
@rosmary101 that is so true, especially watcha say song, i hate that song that Derulo's made, he made it so different, each time i explain Imogenheap i always ask if they know Hide and seek, they say no, have you heard watcha say? they say yes. ARG! i love her so much!
@rosmary101 I couldn't agree with you more. She's amazing!! I don't know how more people don't know about her. I have 2 friends who love her music....everyone else says who? I'm always pimping out her videos on my FB though to try and get more of my friends to listen to her music. I swear, this world would have a LOT less pissed off people walking around if everyone listened to Immi's music.
My my, maybe not as good vocals as maybe 2 years ago but by no means crap. Song is very well written and sung, and Imogen always brings something more to her performances that other more mainstream artists now-adays lack, a sense of genuine emotion. Loved it :)
hey stop being so mean... treat others they u want to be treated, sexual preference doesnt matter im gay my bestfriend is the str8est guy ever u stupid prick
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Dumbass 15 year old, that is Janet Jackson and Busta Rhymes. Learn to read. You dumb cracker, Janet can sing the hell out of a song and this twit Imogen can't stay in tune. BTW, the video of you curling your hair is homo boy. Of course those young metrosexuals have no sense of rhythm nor pitch.
Leave sexuality alone. We are all who we are, so please try to be more understanding. Imogen writes the poetry she writes because she knows it's right for her and that it's her original creation. We have the sexuality that we have not because we choose to, but because it's an intrinsic part of who we are. Please consider the perspective of other people than yourself before you begin to throw so much hatred out there.
@2cayenne and it seems your a crappy person, with crappy music taste. Whats the point in insulting people just because they don't agree with you. Your view is the only view.
Imogen has been recording her album for years, her voice is a little shot. I admit, this was a crappy performance, but if you'd been singing you ass off the past few years, your voice would be too.
and I'm gay, douchebag. don't really care if you care.
i think she did good. atleast she dosent lip-sync like a shitload of other people. but yeah she has been recording for the past two years give her a break.
I won music awards throughout my years at school. I'm gay. Just appreciate words and poetry for what it is, and please, please realize how much hatred you are exuding. Just notice that. The world doesn't need any more cruelty. Find something else to do.
Love at an intersection. Simple people say, give it time and space. You see time worn patterns of less interaction and dialog finally ending in total loss. Meanwhile you consider a backup life.
Cries for a divine intervention. A little miracle to transform skeptic into a firm believer.
Living on little crumbs you beg for and seem few and far between compared to what you once knew.
It happened to us - didn't we have more? Have we become cliché.
Now what to do?. Where action can be misinterpreted. Tempted to do nothing but wait silently and sweat in the cold. Dwelling on those unanswered questions.
For any of us who have dealt with a crumbling relationship can relate to this so very personally. "Pain on pain on play repeating." OMG what extraordinary words!
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she said it wrong its a stumbling cliche case. she got the words wrong. she did it in the other preformance aswell but covered it up a bit better by just repeatin the first verse again. she also said dust we "flaring" on old magazines ... cos obv she was gonna say "flourescent lighting" before she meant to... bet YOU feel like a douche now.
well i know all the words and these are different words to the recording, and the words that are different to the recording are clearly amalgamations of two words later in the song resulting in a made up word. she probably just did it out of nerves. its hard when your performing live. just cos she wrote the song doesnt mean she cant sing it wrong occasionally. and i dont wish i was right i just thing you should pay attention to the english language and maybe listen to the original.
well mind is a product of body and spirit is just latin for breath which is impossible without body so really. Mind and spirit are biproducts but there is nothing more to life than body.
Don't confuse mind and brain. Mind is software brain is hardware. People can lose their mind and still be alive. Like in cases of total reversion amnesia. Breath is just another body function. Whether through gills or tap roots or through lungs breath is just a word for what the body does. It doesn't deserve a special category seperate from the body anymore than heart beat or digestion would.
I love this song...admittedly the only contact i had previously with TED was various psychology lectures (Zimbardo et al's Stamford Prison Study stands out) but surely there's room for people to express feelings and ideas through song too? There's no harm in that, is there? And besides, how bored must the audience get after hours of lectures. No matter how interesting, listening to people enjoy the sounds of their own voices gets pretty dull after a while
another attempt to add something 'artsy' to ted. Don't get me wrong I love music, but this is gay as hell. I come to TED for interesting new ideas, not melodramatic music...
i agree whole-heartedly. imogen heap makes straight up boring white kid music. i have learned nothing from her performance and she has shared no new ideas about music or art. she is stale. she is old wine in a new bottle.
While I'm not a huge Imogen fan, I have seen some of her other performances and she typically has a much more "technological" and interesting performance using samplers and other toys and gadgets. From the look of the stage she probably performed some other songs and used some of her toys, but it looks like TED felt like posting this song.
couldn't understand most of the lyrics but the point is clear - as is the question - are we just going to wait it our or ARE WE going To Act, take a stand, and defend our freedom and god given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Hmmm?
True...But, if she was walking around using the other mic...Why couldn't she just sit and sing with the headset? Just weird...Not a big deal...But, weird.
Some people seem to think TED is only about science and technology and new idea and stuff like that. They forget what the middle letter stands for. Also, an awful lot of people have no idea about the process undertaken by "proper musicians" during the construction of a song - regardless of whether anyone likes it or not. Song creators are often BIG thinkers, and perhaps more importantly, focused thinkers.
Ideas... TED is a platform for people who have something to say. Some ideas to share. I think of it as primarily educational - distributing knowledge and awareness. Tell me, what is the use of having a performance like this. Is this musician a "BIG" thinker. Where are the BIG ideas?
Most of the time she did live performances and studio version recording arrangement differently, and each of those has magic on it's own.
TheNdenk 1 month ago
Amazing!!!
honeylove7572 1 month ago
She is one of the few people today who can actually sing. Amazing performance.
wraithRaptor 1 month ago
2:35 + was orgasmic
phenomenon91 2 months ago in playlist More videos from TEDtalksDirector
mediocre talent. not impressive at all
MrDgaf12345 2 months ago
Poor performance?? Goodness.. I like this version than the studio one..
Tathagatchat 2 months ago in playlist Everyday 4
Very inspiring. Thank you for sharing! #shoutwithjoy!
ShoutWithJoy 3 months ago
is it just me or does her voice sound a little like natasha bedingfields?
AxelHeusser 3 months ago 2
@AxelHeusser strange that you say that lol NB new album reminds me of imogen stuff...
mysticdaniel 3 months ago
Shes So HOT. I love U
spinbulldog 5 months ago
At 3:46 she looks kinda like a robot the way she's moving haha! Which would make sense, cause it doesn't seem possible that one human being can possess so much talent and creativity! She truly is amazing
TheAliDhanji 6 months ago 2
shes greek right? it sux cuz my heath teacher looks exactly like her, and talks exactly like her xD. beautiful song though :) <3
MsMiniMakeup811 7 months ago
I love the piece of lyric.. 'Time heals everything'
ClothesHairMakeUp 7 months ago 2
this is so beautiful, she is so amazing
LaurenAquilinaMusic 8 months ago 2
a real artist, beauty defined...
loopba 9 months ago
I love her. Can barely type. Marvellous. Lx
xxrebel2uxx 9 months ago
This is a good example of how personal taste and fame can provide both "it's poor quality work" and "it's genius and amazing work" as responses to the same video. If you saw this performance on Britain's Got Talent you'd say to yourself "Hey, she has potential, but she needs to get singing lessons" and if you're an Imogen Heap fan you say "OMG OMG OMG I LUV HER SO, THIS WAS AWESOME" and in reality it's a lovely performance that has lovely flaws which help color and shape the performance.
P00P0STER0US 9 months ago 3
And of course, my view of 'reality' is my own. The only true flaw is "clambelling cliche" which kinda sticks out, but I'm totally ok with the way she sings some parts with shallow breath. It brings to mind the feeling of immediacy, personal experience, introspection, and stark humanity.
P00P0STER0US 9 months ago
@P00P0STER0US The first intelligent comment I think I've ever read on YouTube, well done.
edgefusion 6 months ago
@P00P0STER0US no dude it's just a crap performance
MrDgaf12345 2 months ago
This song is phenomenal. The lyrics tell a simple story but its execution is a masterpiece! I just had to write about this song on my blog, line from a lyric at blogspot. The title of the post is "this too shall pass, for real".
NatGey 11 months ago
Why on earth are there so many dislikes? It's ridiculous, this is flawless.
FinalFantasyFan300 11 months ago
@FinalFantasyFan300 Iknorite! Wtf? x_X Soooooo much better than most artists...
w00tzor25 11 months ago
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ptook45 11 months ago
Chuck is the best!
ptook45 11 months ago 4
Imogen released instrumental versions of all the songs in "Ellipse". I really like her stripped-down versions, where it's just her and the piano, and maybe she could released some stripped down versions with her next album :)
HugoEpsilon 1 year ago
i love this song! :)
ChrmdThree 1 year ago
Beautiful song and great live performance ... and such a lovely piano theme !
And the lyrics capture me, especially the part: " Everybody says that time heals everything ... but what of the wretched hollow - the endless in between ...
GABRIELEsongs 1 year ago
This is one of my very favorite songs. Every version I've heard I love. Emotional truth and artistry count for so much IMO when it comes to music. There are so many people out there with great voices but their music is emotionally dead and hollow. She's so creative, and I love the truth and passion in her voice when she sings.
Elihulove 1 year ago
generally she's no where near as good live, but this performance is very good!
onnie9summers 1 year ago
@onnie9summers You're wrong, generally she's as good if not better live.
ImFallingForAutumn 11 months ago
She's just freaking amazing!! :DDD
5RinggitBandits 1 year ago
She's AMAZING!!
ThawingOut85 1 year ago
she's wonderful. she has talents that come once in a lifetime.
withbarehands 1 year ago
Her wonderful synth-voice on her albums is EXACTLY the same as her live voice. She is a great singer and she has ALL my respect! More singers need to be able to sing in real life, they hardly write their own music, let alone do anything else useful. It leads me to wonder why they are singers in the first place IF THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY SING! Anyone can sit there and get autotuned and sing, and most of the lyrics are weak and the artist's image is crappy. It's very saddening to me.
queenofhearts17 1 year ago
just because it isn't a "studio recording" people automatically discount this as a poor performance? Imogen Heap is extremely talented...it just goes to show that ignorance is running rampant like the lion...she is fantastic and un-processed!!!
crazyfrog357 1 year ago 12
Such a wonderful version of this song. So beautiful and haunting. One of my favourites aside from "Hide & Seek"
Ceridwyn2 1 year ago
I think I'm in love with this song now.
mikinoodles85 1 year ago
Part @:
Not all music is meant for dancing. And to judge by "perfect pitch" is to desparately miss the point. Personal communication, torment & eventual exhaustion/resignation, are the point here.It's not about Pop Diva here, it's about a person, a real person. A single plaintive voice, broken and resigned.
MrMilesify 1 year ago 9
@MrMilesify couldnt have said it better myself ! :)
mtate800 1 year ago
Part 1:
You must see that alone on a TV stage w/only a piano, millions of viewers peering at you through the microscope, cameramen scurrying to get in your face, seeking to view your personal pain, is the loneliest place on the planet. It is the perfect setting for this personal surrender. She lays her soul bare for all to see. "...and what of the wretched hollow, the endless in-between...."
MrMilesify 1 year ago
Her mic is loud as piss so, of course, who's not going to feel nervous when every molecule in your mouth can be heard?
alawrence89 1 year ago 2
This song hits me square in the chest and takes my breath away. The live performance is even more intense. This song speaks to many parts of my life, and I thank Imogen Heap for capturing raw emotion in this song.
NellaRose 1 year ago
I really love imogen heap but seriously, she is shocking live.
seconddani 1 year ago
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good shocking or bad shocking?
veloceGT 1 year ago
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Bad shocking.
Her recorded songs have such emotion, Hide and Seek and Wait it Out have such raw emotion and i love them to peices, but honestly- i will never again listen to her live. it ruins the illusion with her lack of pitch.
seconddani 1 year ago
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ingl0rius 1 year ago
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You what? Might i recommend a decent hearing aid?
ingl0rius 1 year ago
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her recorded electronic stuff is fantastic but i had never heard her live before this and yuck, im going to stick to recordings.
seconddani 1 year ago
One word: Magic.
PanicPlague 1 year ago 4
Brilliant performance!! What an inspiring genius.
Thank you (-:
steelyman08 1 year ago
"All I want, only one street-level miracle.
I'll be a an out-and-out, born again from none more cynical."
fallingstrawberry 1 year ago
Oh jesus her hair is a mess... I HAD to say it! LOL. Anyways i LOVE this song and her music <3 her!
wazzup809 1 year ago
80 angry idiots missed the like button.
PayShi 1 year ago 2
I love this song soo much!
ScreamxxBabe 1 year ago
Mr. Imogen Heap (a.k.a. Lloyd Bartlett of Kingston on the Thames) has a wife and 2 children. Before beginning his pop career he impersonated, on the London club circuit, Cher, Madonna, Blondie, Sheryl Crow and Tina Turner.
TransliteratedJumble 1 year ago
@TransliteratedJumble I'm not buying it for a god damn minute.
CarlyAnne2and20 1 year ago
@CarlyAnne2and20 I know. That was the most random comment ever. Does her music sound anything remotely close to Cher and Tina Turner? lol
PenaltyKillah 1 year ago
so amazingly beautiful one of the greatest performers i have had the pleasure of seeing. it truly touched my heart
TheCassieblah 1 year ago
Wow, so passionate. I got goosebumps. People always looks for the lyrics or how technical or advanced a song is to judge it. But to me, what's really important is the feeling it gives you.
hoopla444 1 year ago
My favorite song of hers.
Elksownkthx 1 year ago
Offstopic: CHUCK FTW!!!
yonisis 1 year ago 2
@yonisis i thought i was the only one who caught her song in the season 3 pilot!
rosmary101 1 year ago 2
Simply beautiful :)
KatyKatyKaty91 1 year ago
Its an outstandin performance from an artist who writes and plays her own material.
chilloutcockney 1 year ago
A true artist, with more soul, more talent, and more class in her pinky than the rest of the "scene" can even dream of having. "Ellipse" is easily the best album of 2009, if not the past few years. A musical genius.
smidijack 1 year ago
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I'm afraid that without the voice sintesizer, the great voice of this painkiller called songwriter for ultra-sensitive lesbians sound doll.
edmundblack 1 year ago
Beautiful
edwinc10458 1 year ago
purrty :)
Shim0ku 1 year ago
rosmary101 u so correct... shes amazing with her music
vishant17 2 years ago 4
it's kinda sad how Imogen Heap's songs are in a lot of things, Garden State, The Holiday, Chuck, Jason DeRulo's Whatcha Say off the top of my head but people don't know who she is...
she's a true musical genius...her songs are so full of emotion...
rosmary101 2 years ago 167
dont forget she is featured in every Season of the OC!
Kyliewhitham 1 year ago
Agreed one billion percent!
She is such an expert with electronic gadgets that I think it might put ALbert Einstein to shame :))
Most important of all, how she take advantage of all the electronica gagdgets to create beuatiful music
muzafar001 1 year ago
@rosmary101 yeah... the remixes never do them justice, never
mcquoidellum 1 year ago
@mcquoidellum of course, there's some reason they even make remixes in the first place....to try to channel the greatness of a song..:)
rosmary101 1 year ago
@rosmary101 that is so true, especially watcha say song, i hate that song that Derulo's made, he made it so different, each time i explain Imogenheap i always ask if they know Hide and seek, they say no, have you heard watcha say? they say yes. ARG! i love her so much!
Poetatoe 1 year ago
@Poetatoe good taste is hard to find...:-p
rosmary101 1 year ago
@rosmary101 I couldn't agree with you more. She's amazing!! I don't know how more people don't know about her. I have 2 friends who love her music....everyone else says who? I'm always pimping out her videos on my FB though to try and get more of my friends to listen to her music. I swear, this world would have a LOT less pissed off people walking around if everyone listened to Immi's music.
SwizzleStick25 1 year ago
@rosmary101
it is not sad, it is how you get famous. Which she has to be to be able to continue what she is doing.
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this is such an amazing song(:
xnicolemariexx 2 years ago 5
So gorgeous.
SparhawkGT 2 years ago 4
Magic <3
Gaga7 2 years ago 6
i see some comments on here saying that this was a "crappy performance" i say unto those people, Fuck you.
wangchangyang 2 years ago 143
@wangchangyang
I say unto them, "I'd hate to know what your concept of a great performance is ~ must be dreadful!"
Could this really be more beautiful?
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this song makes me feel alive
danii3927 2 years ago 7
musical genius....SERIOUSLY
PassionToPlay 2 years ago 13
My my, maybe not as good vocals as maybe 2 years ago but by no means crap. Song is very well written and sung, and Imogen always brings something more to her performances that other more mainstream artists now-adays lack, a sense of genuine emotion. Loved it :)
davidragon1 2 years ago
i dont even no who she is
but i agree about the emotion
Yamakashi1 2 years ago 2
a modern poet speaking what we all feel in short, painful bursts
telemicus 2 years ago 3
damn she is sooo beautiful inside and out.
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i cant help to agree more her4 music is so amazing and i cant stop listening to it
eddy92393 2 years ago
saw this song live tonight in utah, it was so amazing. she is truely gifted.
mtate800 2 years ago 2
hey stop being so mean... treat others they u want to be treated, sexual preference doesnt matter im gay my bestfriend is the str8est guy ever u stupid prick
eddy92393 2 years ago
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I can honestly say this is the worst singer I have ever heard. She is off tune and the song is dumb and over dramatic.
2cayenne 2 years ago
You have Busta Rhymes favorited.
Shut the fuck up.
MisterMostaza 2 years ago 3
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Dumbass 15 year old, that is Janet Jackson and Busta Rhymes. Learn to read. You dumb cracker, Janet can sing the hell out of a song and this twit Imogen can't stay in tune. BTW, the video of you curling your hair is homo boy. Of course those young metrosexuals have no sense of rhythm nor pitch.
2cayenne 2 years ago
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Wait, are you a f*cking girl or boy? I can't tell seriously. Sexually confused hipster.
2cayenne 2 years ago
and way to block your cuss words, real gangsta'
MisterMostaza 2 years ago 2
Leave sexuality alone. We are all who we are, so please try to be more understanding. Imogen writes the poetry she writes because she knows it's right for her and that it's her original creation. We have the sexuality that we have not because we choose to, but because it's an intrinsic part of who we are. Please consider the perspective of other people than yourself before you begin to throw so much hatred out there.
Bradasha 2 years ago 3
Low, just because you don't have anything else to say.
WearBear07 1 year ago
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@WearBear07 SHE'S A CRAPPY SINGER.
2cayenne 1 year ago
@2cayenne lol
ShoutWithJoy 1 year ago
@2cayenne and it seems your a crappy person, with crappy music taste. Whats the point in insulting people just because they don't agree with you. Your view is the only view.
WearBear07 1 year ago
Imogen has been recording her album for years, her voice is a little shot. I admit, this was a crappy performance, but if you'd been singing you ass off the past few years, your voice would be too.
and I'm gay, douchebag. don't really care if you care.
MisterMostaza 2 years ago
i think she did good. atleast she dosent lip-sync like a shitload of other people. but yeah she has been recording for the past two years give her a break.
RubenKaboom 2 years ago 6
I won music awards throughout my years at school. I'm gay. Just appreciate words and poetry for what it is, and please, please realize how much hatred you are exuding. Just notice that. The world doesn't need any more cruelty. Find something else to do.
Bradasha 2 years ago
@2cayenne and liking janet jackson isn't remotely camp at all. at least imogen writes her own material.
ChipChipBreak 2 years ago
haha bullshit
WearBear07 1 year ago
What is Reflarenonon ? (2:35) lol
CrayolaNumber1 2 years ago
I love it when people make up new songs when singing. I do it too! :) Try it!
Dust reflareronon old magazines...:D
rasmus1tokiohotel 1 year ago
dust will layer on old magazines..
indreams4eva 1 year ago
@rasmus1tokiohotel "dust we've layered on"
AegisXOR 1 year ago
@rasmus1tokiohotel HAHAHA~!
GlaciatedHeart 6 months ago
I'm amazed by her!
huakane 2 years ago 2
I love this song! This is a AMAZING version of it..
StowBurst 2 years ago 2
This woman is amazing. She should record an album with her songs naked; with just her voice and the piano, like this one.
ckovertime 2 years ago 4
I agree, she should record an album with just voice and piano. This performance is just beautiful! :)
emmahwoodhouse 2 years ago 13
you resized before deinterlacing!
joejoe133 2 years ago
Yeah ... the wretched hollow. Vacant space reserved for only this one. A void nothing else will ever fit into.
MachTurtle55 2 years ago
Hits me right where I live.
Love at an intersection. Simple people say, give it time and space. You see time worn patterns of less interaction and dialog finally ending in total loss. Meanwhile you consider a backup life.
Cries for a divine intervention. A little miracle to transform skeptic into a firm believer.
MachTurtle55 2 years ago 7
Living on little crumbs you beg for and seem few and far between compared to what you once knew.
It happened to us - didn't we have more? Have we become cliché.
Now what to do?. Where action can be misinterpreted. Tempted to do nothing but wait silently and sweat in the cold. Dwelling on those unanswered questions.
MachTurtle55 2 years ago 3
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Anyone else pick up that this song is about religion and not a relationship????
SanRafaelSwell 2 years ago
For any of us who have dealt with a crumbling relationship can relate to this so very personally. "Pain on pain on play repeating." OMG what extraordinary words!
Atticus733 2 years ago 2
i really want the score for this piece, does anyone has it??
wewelvc68 2 years ago
brought tears to my eyes too Just going to sweet it out
olderbluesfan 2 years ago 2
oh wow Imogen, that was so beautiful! it brought tears to my eyes lolz!
Immi!!!
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HAHAHAHA SHE GOT THE WORDS WRONG!!! lol clambelling isnt a word
afc4life100 2 years ago
clambering
Cypherson 2 years ago
it's clambering dumbass..guess u feel like a douche now.ha.
montman82 2 years ago 4
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she said it wrong its a stumbling cliche case. she got the words wrong. she did it in the other preformance aswell but covered it up a bit better by just repeatin the first verse again. she also said dust we "flaring" on old magazines ... cos obv she was gonna say "flourescent lighting" before she meant to... bet YOU feel like a douche now.
chubsykins 2 years ago
WRONG WRONG.u wish u were right but youre not.accept it douche.
montman82 2 years ago
well i know all the words and these are different words to the recording, and the words that are different to the recording are clearly amalgamations of two words later in the song resulting in a made up word. she probably just did it out of nerves. its hard when your performing live. just cos she wrote the song doesnt mean she cant sing it wrong occasionally. and i dont wish i was right i just thing you should pay attention to the english language and maybe listen to the original.
chubsykins 2 years ago
i get what youre saying but im done arguing about it lol.idc if she said the words wrongs and im sure theres a reason for it if she did,whatever.
montman82 2 years ago
Great version
MrRobF 2 years ago
Having abit of trouble getting the same piano sound from 0:43- 0:54
mrensayne 2 years ago
this sends chills
rawrcalumx 2 years ago
Get MATTIAS IA EDLUNLK AND DEVIN TOWNSEND ON TED!
Griffith101 2 years ago
Thanks TED for your, SImple but Brilliant Approach to Life. TED Talks, We Listen. (or at least I DO)
macks3123 2 years ago
There's more to life than mind
There's more to life than body
There's more to life than spirit
14bebop14 2 years ago
well mind is a product of body and spirit is just latin for breath which is impossible without body so really. Mind and spirit are biproducts but there is nothing more to life than body.
ratholin 2 years ago
Body is impossible without breath, and I'm pretty sure brain dead individuals aren't living. ;)
14bebop14 2 years ago
Don't confuse mind and brain. Mind is software brain is hardware. People can lose their mind and still be alive. Like in cases of total reversion amnesia. Breath is just another body function. Whether through gills or tap roots or through lungs breath is just a word for what the body does. It doesn't deserve a special category seperate from the body anymore than heart beat or digestion would.
ratholin 2 years ago
We repeat ourselfs, corruption perhabs it can't be in US, lol
iveco555 2 years ago
shut up everyone, none of you are as smart as you think you are...
Scinery 2 years ago 3
I love this song...admittedly the only contact i had previously with TED was various psychology lectures (Zimbardo et al's Stamford Prison Study stands out) but surely there's room for people to express feelings and ideas through song too? There's no harm in that, is there? And besides, how bored must the audience get after hours of lectures. No matter how interesting, listening to people enjoy the sounds of their own voices gets pretty dull after a while
:)
hansaB268 2 years ago
Thanks !!
Learkins 2 years ago
She needs two microphones?
ArgueExplain 2 years ago
Opens with one of the biggest lyrical clichés: "where do we go from here?" Kind of made me lose interest.
int3rl0per 2 years ago
sucks balls
slazengerball 2 years ago
imma let you finish but I must say that Beyonce's video was better.
CrownRoyalSociety 2 years ago
burn
KingDingleberry 2 years ago
LOL LOL
neil1337 2 years ago
I dislike this music, bring back kaki king.
and don't fucking say: "well if you didn't like it why did you watch it?"
for any idiots who are thinking of saying that, I didn't know whether I would like it or not before I watched it. there.
and beyonce sucks balls.
lorenrb 2 years ago
haha, i love how frank you are
1KitKat0 2 years ago
that was really bad...Nepotism at it's best..
"Hey my brother owns TED...maybe he can hook you up with a 5 minute ad spot"
click and mute.
MajNorberg 2 years ago
another attempt to add something 'artsy' to ted. Don't get me wrong I love music, but this is gay as hell. I come to TED for interesting new ideas, not melodramatic music...
nineblackkasabian 2 years ago
i agree whole-heartedly. imogen heap makes straight up boring white kid music. i have learned nothing from her performance and she has shared no new ideas about music or art. she is stale. she is old wine in a new bottle.
jasonfifi 2 years ago
Just in case you didn't know, old wine is usually much better than new wine.
Try a different analogy.
Just sayin...
deepmind 2 years ago
you're right, all that pre-pasteurization wine was the hot jam.
jasonfifi 2 years ago
Amen.
Perlustrate 2 years ago
While I'm not a huge Imogen fan, I have seen some of her other performances and she typically has a much more "technological" and interesting performance using samplers and other toys and gadgets. From the look of the stage she probably performed some other songs and used some of her toys, but it looks like TED felt like posting this song.
Shaxspear 2 years ago
SOMEONE needs to sing a song about how the bankers are anti-humanity and are setting the stage for global food problems... enough with left right.
Go12Go 2 years ago
This is awful. I like her older stuff much better. Also, what is she even doing on TED?
internetsftw 2 years ago
couldn't understand most of the lyrics but the point is clear - as is the question - are we just going to wait it our or ARE WE going To Act, take a stand, and defend our freedom and god given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Hmmm?
Snowflake70 2 years ago
Oh girl!... Simon Cowell literally would rip you appart :)
TheProdigySupreme 2 years ago
I don't see the purpose in her having a head piece...and then a mic right in front of her face...It's not like she left the piano?
jido35 2 years ago
She may have talked before or after - so it's up to the sound engineer to switch mikes for speech or singing
flyingfisbeefilms 2 years ago
True...But, if she was walking around using the other mic...Why couldn't she just sit and sing with the headset? Just weird...Not a big deal...But, weird.
jido35 2 years ago
wow Imogen heap on TED, that is something i would never expect to see, amazing =D
kawaiteam 2 years ago 3
Congrats Imogen!
mrowepat 2 years ago 2
Brilliant :) loved it!
photopros 2 years ago 2
Some people seem to think TED is only about science and technology and new idea and stuff like that. They forget what the middle letter stands for. Also, an awful lot of people have no idea about the process undertaken by "proper musicians" during the construction of a song - regardless of whether anyone likes it or not. Song creators are often BIG thinkers, and perhaps more importantly, focused thinkers.
McPrfctday 2 years ago
So what ideas is Miss Heap putting out there with this song. It's nice, but completely irrelevant.
MrDarkbloom 2 years ago
Irrelevant to what?
McPrfctday 2 years ago
Ideas... TED is a platform for people who have something to say. Some ideas to share. I think of it as primarily educational - distributing knowledge and awareness. Tell me, what is the use of having a performance like this. Is this musician a "BIG" thinker. Where are the BIG ideas?
MrDarkbloom 2 years ago
Yeah, the definately play some shitty music at TED.
Teabonesteak 2 years ago
I'm sure the people enjoy a break from hour after hour of talking.
amplify1492 2 years ago
Well, that kinda surprised me to see Imogen Heap on TED.
MiraiHikki 2 years ago