On “Fake Is the New Real,” Coppola tackles inauthenticity — in the first verse, bemoaning fakery in popular culture, and in the second verse, politics. She released two versions of the song: first, a more minimalistic arrangement on her April 2002 record Post Traumatic Pop Syndrome, and then a more...
Full speed ahead, rock-n-roll is dead
The girls and boys from the mickey mouse club
Clocked it the head
T.V. makes people so tired
Bored as a bird on a wire
I check the pulse and I light a match
And then I set the tele on, I set the tele on fire
Tell me what's the deal
Tell me what's the deal
Cuz it really seems to me
Bona fide is a whole deal
Fake is the new real
Take a bite out of crime
Long as it's not on your dime
If honesty will put you in jail
You know that we're living in phony times
You say you wanna get turned on
You take a moment and kick yourself
And then you drop yourself, you drop yourself a bomb
Tell me what's the deal
Tell me what's the deal
Cuz it really seems to me
Bona fide is a whole deal
Fake is the new real
Fake Is the New Real was written by Imani Coppola.
Imani Coppola released Fake Is the New Real on Sun Oct 06 2002.