 There has been much speculation as to whether or not Hostage was a concept album.Singer and lyricist Jonathon Newby has been very vague in determining the validity of the claim, only to say “unless a band is putting out a Greatest Hits record, then by definition, all albums are concepts” in many interviews.One theory asserts the story as a Reverse Pinocchio fable about a human boy trying to become a robot.