Mr. Mysterious

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"Mr. Mysterious"
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Single by Vanessa Amorosi featuring Seany B
from the album Hazardous
Released23 April 2010 (2010-04-23)(Australia) [1]
RecordedFishhead Music Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden
Genre Pop rock, electropop, dance-pop
Label Universal
Songwriter(s) Vanessa Amorosi, MachoPsycho (Robin Lynch & Niklas Olovson)
Vanessa Amorosi singles chronology
"Hazardous"
(2009)
"Mr. Mysterious"
(2010)
"Holiday"
(2010)
Music videos
"Mr. Mysterious" on YouTube

"Mr. Mysterious" is a song by Australian recording artist Vanessa Amorosi featuring Seany B, who is best known for being the performer of the TV Rock hit "Flaunt It". "Mr. Mysterious" was released in April 2010 as the third single from Amorosi's fourth studio album Hazardous. [2]

Contents

Amorosi describes the song as "a cheeky track about the guy you know nothing about but you can't get out of your head". [3]

Before release as a digital single, the song was used in the ads by the Network Ten for the British television drama series Merlin .

Promotion

"Mr. Mysterious" was first performed live on TV at the 2009 Perth Telethon on 3 October 2009. [4] Amorosi filmed the video for "Mr. Mysterious" in February 2010.

In 2010, Amorosi performed "Mr. Mysterious" on Hey Hey It's Saturday . [5]

Music video

The video clip for "Mr. Mysterious" was shot in February [2] by director Stuart Gosling. [6] Gosling's Motion Cubism FX is used intensively throughout the video creating a fluid and mesmerising visual performance. Digital Pictures spent three weeks of post production to get the FX right. [6] The video premiered on The Today Show and on Mornings with Kerri-Anne on 26 March 2010.

Track listing

Music download
Preorder 'Single' [1]
  1. "Mr. Mysterious" (Single version)
  2. "Mr. Mysterious" (Dance Dude Macho Club Mix)
GetMusic [7]
  1. "Mr. Mysterious" (Single version)
  2. "This Is Who I Am" (The Lonewolf version)
iTunes [8]
  1. "Mr. Mysterious" (feat. Seany B) — 3:45
  2. "Hazardous" (Kill Bill version)— 5:14

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [9] 4

Year-end chart

Chart (2010)Position
Australia (ARIA) [10] 80

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [11] Platinum70,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateLabelCatalogue
Australia April 2010 Universal Music Australia 2737405

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References

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