A cover taken from the original 1989 hit by Chris Isaak Wicked Game.

With I'm a Victim of this Song, Pipilotti Rist takes up the concept of the "cover" version, in which one performer does a version of another's song, and gives it her own twist. Starting with music from Chris Isaak's hit single Wicked Game, she adds her own sung and screamed versions of the lyrics, accompanied by effects-manipulated, diaristic video images. The result is an art-world "cover" of a popular artifact, with a woman's voice reinterpreting the male original, and a vivid illustration of the consumer's claim to own and interpret media images.

Pipilotti Rist is an artist who was born in Switzerland. Her focus is video and audio installations because there is room in them for everything: painting, technology, music, language, lousy, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonition of death, friendliness... like a compact handbag. Her opinion is: "Art task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create sensuousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities and to destroy cliches and prejudices".

She took the original song titled "Wicked Game" by Chriss Isaak, and versionated it precisely for using it in combination with images and other stuff and create a videoinstallation. She arose the concept of cover version, introducing new effects and manipulations.She is considered an authentic art provoker.