My Wicked Heart
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| Single by Diana Vickers | ||||
| B-side | "The Way You Say It" | |||
| Released | 17 October 2010 | |||
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| Recorded | 2010 | |||
| Length | 2:56 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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"My Wicked Heart" is a song co-written and co-produced by English singer Diana Vickers. It was digitally released on 17 October 2010 and physically released on 1 November 2010 by RCA Records in the United Kingdom. The track was inspired by indie music including The xx and The Doors and features Vickers playing the trumpet. Vickers performed the single live on the seventh series of The X Factor on 17 October 2010. "My Wicked Heart" received commercial success peaking at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart making it Vickers' second top 20 single. The single is not included on an album due to Vickers leaving the label it was recorded under.
On 2 September 2010, various media outlets reported that Vickers was due to re-release her debut album, under a deluxe edition with extra material. Following this announcement, Vickers stated her new single would be called "My Wicked Heart", a video containing a short snippet of the song was uploaded to YouTube. On 12 September, BBC Radio 1 premiered the track, it received mainly positive reviews due to its upbeat tempo. Popjustice even commented, praising it on the middle eight segment; "It is a little bit bonkers and quite a lot amazing." On 2 October, the following month, Vickers unveiled the video for the single, and it premiered on ITV2 at 6:55 PM. According to Vickers, the song is about "someone you're infatuated with for months and months, and you really want them but can't have them – either because they're in a relationship or you're in a relationship."
Popjustice gave the single a positive review commenting that it resembled, "Florence + The Machine doing "Under the Bridge" via "Crazy Chick" with some big brassy other things thrown in. However, the video did receive some criticism, as in the video there is a scene where Vickers is dressed in a cheetah-style costume, dancing in a cage and this was said to be copying a scene from Shakira's "She Wolf" video. It is a little bit bonkers and quite a lot amazing.[...] It opens with the line 'hush hush stay quiet, your secret's safe with me'. There is a great 'whoops-a-daisy' bit in the middle eight. But she later went on to describe the song as a mix of quirky dance queen Björk and goth-rockers Siouxsie & the Banshees.SugarScape stated that they were impressed with Vickers new totally diva-esque new song. Where it takes her to a whole new level of cool, showing the claw is well and truly banished and behind her. Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy stated that the song was "smart-but-not-too-clever" and goes on to say "Vickers and her collaborators tease with stop-start verses and heart murmur drums before smashing our ears right through in a kitchen-sink volley of brass, deranged whoops and a blatant-but-brilliant steal from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Under The Bridge'." They also stated that "After a welcome second helping, they take it right back down for a breakdown whose berserk "Whoops-a-daisy" refrain will make the existing Marmite split over her voice look like a happy coalition - all in less than three poptastic minutes." And then went on to reward the track with five out of five stars.Coffee City Music Lounge stated that they liked the song as it is quite different, they went on to say that they liked the beat and he/she likes the 'horns' on the track. "My Wicked Heart" is quirky and fits in with the other tracks on the album.[...] He also said "It’s an odd mix of quirky and creepy, which I like."
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