The story goes like this:
1. Imogen Heap wrote a song called Hide and Seek. Most of you know it, it’s pretty amazing (skip to around 2:53 for the part that’s most relevant to the rest of the story):
HIDE AND SEEK
2. The OC uses Hide and Seek in its dramatic season 2 finale (jump to 0:30):
3. SNL thinks the OC is ridiculous, does a parody of the scene in which Hide and Seek plays a significant (hilarious) role:
4. The Office thinks SNL’s parody of the OC is awesome and wants to get in on the action:
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5. Jason DeRulo comes along and says, “Hey, Imogen Heap, this song you did is everywhere, you’re so popular. Wanna do a remix with me so I can be popular too?” And thus, “Whatcha Say,” the song that everyone wants to hear all the time, drunk or sober, was born (it’s totally on my Summer ’09 playlist):
6. [Coda] A bunch of people recorded spoofs of the spoof and parodies of the parody (many of which used Halo or other games), using Hide and Seek as well as the newfangled Whatcha Say, and put them on YouTube. But then the RIAA disabled their posts because these re-spoofers didn’t get the proper rights to the songs. Our loss.
