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"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.[1]

"My Secret Friend"
Single by IAMX + Imogen Heap
from the album Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Released	12 October 2009 (2009-10-12)
Recorded	2008–2009
Genre	Electropop
Length	3:45 (radio edit) 4:06 (album version)
Label	61seconds
Songwriter(s)	Chris Corner, Imogen Heap
Producer(s)	Chris Corner
IAMX singles chronology
"Tear Garden" (2009) "My Secret Friend" (2009) "Ghosts of Utopia" (2011)
Imogen Heap singles chronology
"First Train Home" (2009) "My Secret Friend" (2009) "Lifeline" (2011)

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.[2] The video is featured on the CD single.

Track listing

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.[3]
• Interpretation by Larry Driscoll – 3:27, cover version included on Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK as a hidden song in a 4-song track.

Chart positions

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[4]	58

References

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