IMOTE HUBLE SELTINGS “SWIERT” with “flawless” Taylor Swift (exclusive)

• In an exclusive interview with People, IMOGE HEAP discusses how she did the song “Clean” with Taylor Swift for the '1989' album from 2014.
• It also opens up on the 20th anniversary concert “Garden State” to appear
• HEAP also discusses what your next music project will look like

IMogen Heap has been up to date with music and technology for more than 27 years. It was not only one of the most future-oriented artists in the Electro-Pop room, but also a passionate supporter of using technology for better in the digital space and for the benefit of the artists themselves.

The musician awarded with the Grammy and the cultural effects of the producer-vom soundtracking one of the most memorable scenes in The OC on the appearance Garden state Soundtrack with your band Fou Frou for composing and production for Broadway production of Harry Potter and the cursed child – was indelible. Not to mention that they have a high influence for some of the most massive superstars in the world such as Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, FKA Twigs and Billie Eilish.

Even now, HEPS Songs find a new life. At the top of 2025, the “headlock” of the 47-year-old artist on Tikkok Viral and became her first ever Advertising board Hot 100 hit as a result, 20 years after the song has been published.

Now HEAP works with Jen, the ethically trained AI musician position platform, Stylefilter ™. With the technology, creators can make their own music in the style of their favorite artists and producers – and are compensated for their characteristic sound. At the beginning, five of the best -known songs by IMogen, including “Headlock”, will be available as individual stylish filters ™ on which Jen Marketplace will be available.

“Both imogen and I share the perspective that when building AI platforms, when the artists are the focus, the focus is on exponential opportunities,” says Shara Senderoff, co-founder and CEO from Jen.

In an exclusive interview with People, HEAP opens up to work with Jen, the “Clean” 2014 with Swift and the experience of performance at the Garden state 20th anniversary concert.

People: What did you pretend to deal with Jen and Style Filter ™?

IMogen heap: This started because I wanted to work with a company that did the right act [AI] Education. So I asked my friend Ed Newton-Rex, who runs this company called Faired. He said, “Well, there is one that I know and it is Jen.” I said, “Oh, Jen, iMogen, I like that, Jen.” I found Shara on Instagram and sent her a direct message. I said, “Hello, I would like to get in touch with you and discuss it because I would like to combine it with a project that I have, called Auracles, how we can do a song, which we call as a living song, as we can create this song so much more.

Ultimately, we have to find a way to respect each other, respect our planet and build systems that are here forever. After all, we have this moment when you can take five of my tracks, and fans can have fun. There is this closed grade because all permissions have been granted in advance. What I do with Auracles is essentially to relieve this process for companies like Jen so that they do not have to deal with the individuals, companies, etc. You can deal with the songs at the machine level, and the songs are enabled by those who create the songs in order to be able to do business with the world.

People: the Garden state The concert for the 20th anniversary was in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. How was it for you to appear with the other artists from the soundtrack?

Heap: It was really nice. I believe [Sigsworth] And my friend Zoë Keating. It was easy to see and many happy faces, and it was really nice to see old friends that I hadn't seen for a while, like Cary Brothers and obviously Zach [Braff]Who is like one of the family. I [also] I have to share an improvisation. I have to wear my gloves at the moment and [got] A little sound from the audience, which is almost as if it were creating a small piece of music. Then I took it at the moment and created it [the music].

People: When was the last time you played with Fou Frou?

Heap: Exactly almost six years ago in the same place. We sold it and it was the last show of our tour.

People: How did you prepare for them? Garden state Soundtrack concert?

Heap: As always, I left everything up to the last minute. I didn't have an outfit, so I just bought a T-shirt and thought: “Oh, I'll paint it in the changing room before I came on stage.” I quickly made someone paint my shoes, so it's in the style of Garden state Colors, and I colored my hair. I said, “I'll find out.” And I did it. I tested that at least the gloves work and I have set all the necessary files, and then we spent a day in our hotel room to get them for the event for the event.

People: What is your favorite fan or your celebrity memory that participates? Garden state Soundtrack and “let go”?

Heap: I assume it is exactly when you meet people individually and how you connected to this song wherever you were in life and time. So: “Oh, this song really helped me to get through this thing.” “Let go” is about letting go. It's about: “Simply enjoy life at the moment.

The more I discover in life, the more open I become. Like “a new kind of love”. This literally went into the bottom of the scrap room, did not know that someone had a copy, someone mixed it again and it is the biggest hit that Fou Fou has ever seen. More money than ever in 20 years in this one song that we have not even published.

People: You worked with Taylor Swift on both the original 2014 and the resumption of “Clean” from 2023. How has Taylor changed in the meantime?

Heap: I don't know. I don't know her very well. I only met her here in this house. She looked flawless and we didn't really know what we would do. She had an idea on her cell phone, she played it and I said, “This is good. Should we take it?” She said, “Well …” I said: “Yes, down in the studio, just let's go there now.” So like “okay.” We went down the stairs, we had our cup of tea by the fire and she wrote the next verse. I started making music around us. And when she went when she was shortly after dinner, we had managed to write the song, to produce the song, to record the song, to chat, to meet, to drink tea, to sit by the fire, to eat, to eat, to eat dinner, to make a whole record of ourselves.

People: And then she went home on time and made a show in the London O2 Arena the next day.

Heap: The other time I met her was just a show in Lisbon, Portugal. I went to take my daughter. Scout was in my stomach. Anyway, Scout was on her one -day trip as a fertilized egg, and I didn't know at the time, but that was the day on which I wrote this song with Taylor. And then 10 years later, the next time I met her, the only time I met Taylor with Scout, who was 10 years old, and she knew the story. She was the first other people who interacted with me as a pregnant woman. So yes, it was pretty cool.

People: Taylor was the first person who interacted with them while he is pregnant with her daughter?

Heap: Yes, apart from the people on the plane and things, but the first person who has a real interaction.

People: What would people be surprised, how Taylor is in the studio?

Heap: I don't know if there are secrets. I mean she knows what she wants and I have pretty much the feeling that she probably always knew what she wants. It is extremely efficient. I have never done it with someone from start to finish. And I felt very excited. I very much appreciated her. There was a moment when I tried something else for the middle section, and I said: “What about these chords?” To think that it is just so different. And she said, “Do you know what? I think we'll lose them here, so let's just do it.” I am like: “Okay, that's okay.” I assume what I have learned [is] Only she is very good in the studio and she knows what works.

People: Do you have plans to publish Fou Fou or Imogen Heap albums?

Heap: My absolute goal for the rest of my life is really to be as present as possible and listen to my instincts. I don't want to plan more than ever. I would like to find ways to communicate in a truthful way and build things that I think will take, even if it is not about technology, but when it comes to thoughts and about how we build things, what is important.

Basically, I have no interest in publishing music like this. I have a real interest and the desire to connect at the moment to build technology. I just love to make and shape our present and future. I'm sorry to say, but I don't think that's currently in my future. But I don't know exactly. I actually started another person named Gone Affen, what an anagram of my name megaphoneThat was my first recording that is also an anagram of my name. Now I have the feeling that he is ready to get out of, to explore and get crazy. This is this playful version of me, this spontaneous, who wants to work together, no worries about the bureaucracy, not worried about the current industry and how it is found and all of the stuff.