Genius. Whoever thought up one special legal tactic for R. Kelly's team (defending him for being part of a disgusting sexual antic -- look it up yourself, if you don't already know about it and have to) is a genius. Twisted, perhaps, but a legal alchemist. The idea is to get the judge to charge prosecution witnesses to Kelly's "secret" because they knew the "secret" and did nothing about it. Perhaps discredited witnesses will result; perhaps a mistrial; perhaps just punishment for Kelly's "betrayers." Sick genius, nonetheless.

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Witness-wise, what exactly is the difference between a "secret witness" and a "surprise witness?" For example, singer RR Kelly's trial is delayed because of a secret witness who may testify that she was part of the three-way with an underage girl, while political fixer Tony Rezko faces more heat because of a surprise witness who claims to have abeted a couple of his corruptions.

** For Big Jo, the delicious secret is also the most surprising. **

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Welcome to Friday's ménage à secrets. Except we'll put les trois in competition, not in conjunction. So, two songs and one band battle for primacy over the unknown.

First up, is Japanese pop nightingage Utada Hikaru asking:

Utada Hikaru - Can you keep a secret

And, lastly but hardly leastly is the ditty -- again, "Can You Keep a Secret" -- from Andy of the Slack String Band

Can You Keep a Secret?

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Suppose you believe you are the only one who has a particular secret. And it is the rare secret that even makes you happy to keep. Do you share it? Or, like Mongolians who took secret joy in a band from "out in the world" but weren't sure they could tell their friends, do you wait 44 years and then jointly meet The Beatles?

Do You Want to Know a Secret? - The Beatles

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It is -- can you beat a dead horse back to life? -- once again time to face that the most interesting secrets are the ones someone dangles in front of you but says s/he will not share. So it is with stories only The Lips, Mick Jagger, knows. (Gene Simmons can still be "the tongue.")  Mick has announced that even $4 million doesn't interest him into sharing secrets from his past. I didn't care before, but now I am kinda curious, although I do suspect it is not that he doesn't want to share them. More likely he just can't remember them. (He is old ... and lots of drugs and alcohol were involved.)

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I didn't get it at first, but a pattern is emerging as the secret is, fortunately, getting out. First, Geraldine Ferraro claims that Barack Obama being a more successful candidate than her fave was due to the darker hue of his pigmentation. In a vacuum that would have been easy enough to dismiss, but now comes the shocking revelation by a tv actress that press reports of her weight loss are due her using the secret power of the sun to "tan" or, possibly also, Spanx secret undergarments. (Who now will reveal Obama wears those as well?)  Forty-plus years ago the secret was offered in song. But, as with many secrets, many listened, nobody heard.

Ella Sings! 1965 That Old Black Magic

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Apparently a certain governor of a certain northeast state had a certain secret something on the side that was secretly funded. And it is almost beyond belief that a certain HoF pop star could have any secret left to be revealed. But it takes no stretch of the imagination to believe that the people of Caol won't give up the one of their own who on purpose or by accident murdered the drinking Jimmy Hassard. 4000 of the Scottish village's 5500 were interviewed and a clue was nae heard nor seen.

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You almost expect to hear The Beatles "Do You Want to Know a Secret" while reading Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda announcing a secret concert on his blog.

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Can you spy on yourself? What will you find?

Sharon Jones - I Just Dropped In To See What Condition...

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Whisper and the world hastens to listen, shout and it tries to tune you out. So, obviously, a great name for a band on the make is Darcy James Argue's Secret Society -- which hard to believe is actually led by Darcy James Argue.  Of course, his secret society should not be confused with other secret societies (freemasons, etc.) who were secret, but then let out some of their secrets when they found their membership rolls and "secret" powers diminishing.

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