"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)

"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]

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.

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