Looking into someone’s eyes and hearing all the chaotic, noisy impressions you might associate with a zoo — a metaphor for overwhelming sensory or emotional experience. She asked listeners to imagine the sounds you might hear in a zoo — the cacophony of roars, shrieks, elephants and things — and said that “zoo eyes” was like looking into somebody’s eyes and hearing all that.
Harding’s phrasing implies Zoo Eyes evokes:
a feeling of intensity and bewilderment
looking at someone (or something) and having a whole “inner zoo” of emotional/psychedelic noise in your head
a perspective that blends observation and internal chaos
Instead of spelling out a story, she uses imagery that is poetic, surreal, and open to interpretation — which is very much her style.
Looking into someone’s eyes and hearing all the chaotic, noisy impressions you might associate with a zoo — a metaphor for overwhelming sensory or emotional experience. She asked listeners to imagine the sounds you might hear in a zoo — the cacophony of roars, shrieks, elephants and things — and said that “zoo eyes” was like looking into somebody’s eyes and hearing all that.
Harding’s phrasing implies Zoo Eyes evokes: a feeling of intensity and bewilderment looking at someone (or something) and having a whole “inner zoo” of emotional/psychedelic noise in your head a perspective that blends observation and internal chaos Instead of spelling out a story, she uses imagery that is poetic, surreal, and open to interpretation — which is very much her style.