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My Secret Friend

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Format
  
CD single

Genre
  
Electronica, Pop

Recorded
  
2008-2009

Label
  
61seconds

Released
  
12 October 2009 (2009-10-12)

Length
  
3:45 (radio edit) 4:06 (album version)

"My Secret Friend" is a song performed by IAMX and Imogen Heap, released as the third single from the album Kingdom of Welcome Addiction. The CD single is available only through the IAMX webstore.

Contents

Music video

The music video, directed by Chris Corner, features Corner dressed as a woman, the video's lead female character, and Heap as a man, the lead male character. He stated in an interview that when he wrote it he pictured the characters as siblings, who have a romantic, possibly incestuous, relationship. The video is featured on the CD single.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Chris Corner and Imogen Heap.

Song versions

  • Album version - 4:06
  • Radio edit - 3:45
  • Omega Man remix - 4:45, remixed and additionally produced by Joe Wilson.
  • The Unfall Broken Waltz rework - 4:41, remixed by Corner under the alias Unfall, this version doesn't include Heap's vocals.
  • "Mein geheimer Freund" - 4:00, solo acoustic piano version in German released at IAMX's official YouTube channel announcing his Germany tour.
  • Interpretation by Larry Driscoll - 3:27, cover version included on Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK as a hidden song in a 4-song track.

    • References

    My Secret Friend Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA