Fake Smile
I’m so happy to FINALLY be able to share that my second album will be called Fake Smile.
I’m so excited for this to be released 2nd June, it’s been a hell of a long time in the making.
I started this project before my last album was even released, so it’s been well over a year.
The track listing will be.
1 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
2 Liar (What’s Wrong with You)
3 Revenge
4 Poison
5 Fake Smile
6 Delete
7 Perfect or Not
8 The Jokes on You
9 Turn Back Time (I’m So Sorry) – Album Version
10 Too Much
11 One That Got Away (Extended)
12 Nothinz Gonna Stop M£
13 Overthinking
14 Rules (Blah Blah)
15 Playing Tricks on Me
16 Game Show
This project has been a very difficult but liberating experience, I have opened so many cans of worms I feel like I’m doing a bush tucker trial on I’m A Celeb.
The reason I wanted this to be called Fake Smile is because so many times in my life I have hidden behind one. Every track on this album I wanted to be associated with times where a Fake Smile has been worn, or that is an experience where one would be worn.
Here is a little more explanation in to the songs on the album:
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind.
This song is to me is about the times when I was bullied in school, college and even workplace, with this leaving mental scares from these experiences they can sometimes play over and over in my head. One day while I was sat there, I thought “I wonder if what they did to me, and other people play on their mind too” and that’s when this song was written. Do I Ever Cross Their Mind because what they put me though does cross mine quite a lot.
Liar (What’s Wrong With You)
Liar is actually a mixture of events that happened to me or around me.
First one is when you have that one person in your life that constantly bullshits and shit stirs about rumours they have heard, made up or spread blatant lies.
The second is having a very powerful person doing exactly the same thing but getting so much pleasure out of it, they deliberately fuelling the fire to discipline people to make them fill bigger and better then everyone around them. But what they don’t realise is everyone knows what is going on and what they are trying to do.
Revenge
Revenge is hidden behind everything.
The question “What If” is always playing on everyone’s mind and that’s what this song is about for me “What if Revenge wasn’t real”. the song refers to many situations which would result in revengeful thinking and seeking revenge. This song does have some meaning to me about people wanting revenge on me but also me wanting revenge on them. it’s also about the way the world is now being so materialistic and trying to sell the better life on social media but knowing it’s not what it’s all made to be behind closed doors.
Poison
Poison is about the Venomous Snakes, Scorpions, Sharks, Spiders that you encounter in your life, these are the types of people you don’t want in your life.
Snakes – suffocating people who want to control you, wrap you tight around their little finger and suck the life out of you.
Scorpions – people who sting you, who are not interested in friendships or relationships, they only want something from you and as soon as they get it, they disappear.
Sharks – The people who bite your head off when things don’t go their way, or if you disagree with them. sharks who target you because they want to rip you apart, put you down and make you seem small and worthless to make them feel powerful and in control.
Spiders – the people who spin webs of lies around themselves and you. The ones who think its ok to stir the pot and make people clash while they sit back and watch in dark corners.
(This is a different version then the single version.)
Fake Smile
This song is all about shielding yourself from the hate in the world that you have received or that goes on around you.
It’s about protecting yourself and not revealing the true hurt or pain that you’re going though. It’s to stop the ones who cause the pain getting pleasure and satisfaction in seeing how much they have hurt you.
It’s about covering all your emotions with a Fake Smile plastered on your face acting like a brick wall keeping everything locked away and hidden from others.
This is what I have done for my whole life and its only recently that I have started to open up and let people in, this is why this song means so much to me because I’m still learning from it all to not hide away, not lock everything up and keep it hidden behind a fake smile.
Delete
Nowadays it feels like the world only spins only because of social media. People push their limits with what they ask for. Someone can be very polite and seem genuine but then as soon as you don’t do as they say they turn very bitter and aggressive.
Like they think they know you, that they are able to control you as well. Social Media can be very misleading and can also be extremely hateful and hurtful.
This being said if you mess with me, trat me like shit, demand stuff from me that’s unacceptable then the only option you have given me is to DELETE you.
Perfect Or Not
Have you ever got into a disagreement/argument with a very close friend, relative, lover and it’s escalated to hights that seem impossible to come down from?
Perfect Or not is about the fact that no one is perfect. People make mistakes and this can be held against them, or grudges being held, this is what most people end up doing, whether it be family, lovers, or friends the time you are angry, and fighting is time that you are losing on making memories and having a great time. plus, most of the time it starts on something very petty and small which just escalates.
The Jokes on You
This is about when I was in school (Year 8 to be precise) I was bullied very badly where people would tell me to jump off a bridge, cut myself, chase me with razor blades in the end of their pens they had made to try and cut me up. All these events still play on my mind but the satisfaction in knowing that I have made something of my life and I’m happy now. The fact that their ways have scared me but not stopped me and the joke is on them now as I have a very nice life and dare I say a lot better they how they turned out.
Turn Back Time (I’m So Sorry) – Album Version
Turn back time is about what I went through the day my mum passed away. It’s about the guilt that I feel for not being there at the time, the not knowing even though I physically couldn’t have known. It’s the what ifs and all the little questions that eat away at me.
This is a slightly different version to the Single version.
Too Much
Too Much is about the fact that I never thought that love would ever happen to me. I always thought I was not capable of being loved. It’s about these questions.
Have you ever felt you don’t deserve anything? You have gotten something that you don’t feel you should have? You are scared that what you have got could all be taken away from you leaving you vulnerable again? Does it all feel a little too much sometimes.
One That Got Away
One That Got Away is about the roads that you didn’t take in life, it’s about knowing that these would have been very treacherous and the wrong choice to make. It’s about reflecting on what’s around you and realising that things are good; it’s about realising that it could have been so much worse than you thought. Whether it about an ex, your career, things that have happened in your live or about groups that you distanced yourself from knowing they are no good for you. This song came about when I was in the garden burning a lot of things.
This Version is longer than the single version.
Nothinz Gonna Stop M£
This is about wanting to go out and letting your hair down and have a good night, no matter what people say about you, what’s going on in your life at the time. You just want to get out and enjoy yourself.
Sleep won’t stop you; Money won’t stop you; venomous bitches won’t stop you either. It’s your life, live it how you want to live it and have fun.
Overthinking
I wrote this song when my mind was going wild. It’s about how one thing that happens to me can send me into a spiral. This really happened and one day I wrote this to try and stop myself. It was over something so stupid and small but because of that it made me think no one liked me, it made me think they were singling me out, it made me feel like they didn’t want me around, I honestly thought they were pushing me out and it just got bigger and bigger, and I was falling harder. It turned out to be a very valid reason that made me feel stupid for questioning everything under the sun.
Rules (Blah Blah)
This song is about pushing my buttons, it’s about people knowing exactly what makes me tick. This is mainly about the times when I was in school or college and the number of rules that I broke because they just didn’t suit me.
Also I use to break rules to try and fit in and reduce the amount of bulling I received, This didn’t work. So it made me question rules in general, I break rules like them, but they still don’t like me, so I don’t fit there rules. It was a constant spiral, and I just didn’t know what rules the correct ones were to follow so made my own up to follow.
Playing Tricks on Me
I remember vividly when and where this happened. One day I was doing the school run and just listening to some music, a lady was walking with their back to me and my heart sank, I remember thinking to myself that she looked exactly like my mum. I remember it was down a road near the school outside Tesco, she was walking like my mum did, same hair, same style of clothes as well. I was convinced it was her, but my mind was just playing tricks on me because I knew it was physically impossible to have been her.
I then remember I burst into tears because I got so overwhelmed by the whole thing. This resulting in me going down a very dark hole for a long time, I ended up seeking help from wellbeing to help me out.
Game Show
People these days really love to play games with you in life, They really love to test you at everything you do.
This song is about trying to compete with you to try and be bigger and better than you. I’ve referenced this to being like a game show because you feel like you’re a contestant trying to get the top prize and be on top of everyone else.
It’s about people trying to put you down, show off that they think they are so much better than you and want to be the centre of attention and will do anything to achieve this.
There has been a lot of thought gone into this project and its was a real challenge to get this exactly how I wanted it.
I’m so proud of this album and what I’ve achieved, it’s a different sound then my first one but the meanings of the song are just as personal and meaningful to me.
Hope you enjoy the album and feel free to send your feedback to be.
Much love
Scott Berry
I’m so happy to FINALLY be able to share that my second album will be called Fake Smile.
I’m so excited for this to be released 2nd June, it’s been a hell of a long time in the making.
I started this project before my last album was even released, so it’s been well over a year.
The track listing will be.
1 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
2 Liar (What’s Wrong with You)
3 Revenge
4 Poison
5 Fake Smile
6 Delete
7 Perfect or Not
8 The Jokes on You
9 Turn Back Time (I’m So Sorry) – Album Version
10 Too Much
11 One That Got Away (Extended)
12 Nothinz Gonna Stop M£
13 Overthinking
14 Rules (Blah Blah)
15 Playing Tricks on Me
16 Game Show
This project has been a very difficult but liberating experience, I have opened so many cans of worms I feel like I’m doing a bush tucker trial on I’m A Celeb.
The reason I wanted this to be called Fake Smile is because so many times in my life I have hidden behind one. Every track on this album I wanted to be associated with times where a Fake Smile has been worn, or that is an experience where one would be worn.
Here is a little more explanation in to the songs on the album:
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind.
This song is to me is about the times when I was bullied in school, college and even workplace, with this leaving mental scares from these experiences they can sometimes play over and over in my head. One day while I was sat there, I thought “I wonder if what they did to me, and other people play on their mind too” and that’s when this song was written. Do I Ever Cross Their Mind because what they put me though does cross mine quite a lot.
Liar (What’s Wrong With You)
Liar is actually a mixture of events that happened to me or around me.
First one is when you have that one person in your life that constantly bullshits and shit stirs about rumours they have heard, made up or spread blatant lies.
The second is having a very powerful person doing exactly the same thing but getting so much pleasure out of it, they deliberately fuelling the fire to discipline people to make them fill bigger and better then everyone around them. But what they don’t realise is everyone knows what is going on and what they are trying to do.
Revenge
Revenge is hidden behind everything.
The question “What If” is always playing on everyone’s mind and that’s what this song is about for me “What if Revenge wasn’t real”. the song refers to many situations which would result in revengeful thinking and seeking revenge. This song does have some meaning to me about people wanting revenge on me but also me wanting revenge on them. it’s also about the way the world is now being so materialistic and trying to sell the better life on social media but knowing it’s not what it’s all made to be behind closed doors.
Poison
Poison is about the Venomous Snakes, Scorpions, Sharks, Spiders that you encounter in your life, these are the types of people you don’t want in your life.
Snakes – suffocating people who want to control you, wrap you tight around their little finger and suck the life out of you.
Scorpions – people who sting you, who are not interested in friendships or relationships, they only want something from you and as soon as they get it, they disappear.
Sharks – The people who bite your head off when things don’t go their way, or if you disagree with them. sharks who target you because they want to rip you apart, put you down and make you seem small and worthless to make them feel powerful and in control.
Spiders – the people who spin webs of lies around themselves and you. The ones who think its ok to stir the pot and make people clash while they sit back and watch in dark corners.
(This is a different version then the single version.)
Fake Smile
This song is all about shielding yourself from the hate in the world that you have received or that goes on around you.
It’s about protecting yourself and not revealing the true hurt or pain that you’re going though. It’s to stop the ones who cause the pain getting pleasure and satisfaction in seeing how much they have hurt you.
It’s about covering all your emotions with a Fake Smile plastered on your face acting like a brick wall keeping everything locked away and hidden from others.
This is what I have done for my whole life and its only recently that I have started to open up and let people in, this is why this song means so much to me because I’m still learning from it all to not hide away, not lock everything up and keep it hidden behind a fake smile.
Delete
Nowadays it feels like the world only spins only because of social media. People push their limits with what they ask for. Someone can be very polite and seem genuine but then as soon as you don’t do as they say they turn very bitter and aggressive.
Like they think they know you, that they are able to control you as well. Social Media can be very misleading and can also be extremely hateful and hurtful.
This being said if you mess with me, trat me like shit, demand stuff from me that’s unacceptable then the only option you have given me is to DELETE you.
Perfect Or Not
Have you ever got into a disagreement/argument with a very close friend, relative, lover and it’s escalated to hights that seem impossible to come down from?
Perfect Or not is about the fact that no one is perfect. People make mistakes and this can be held against them, or grudges being held, this is what most people end up doing, whether it be family, lovers, or friends the time you are angry, and fighting is time that you are losing on making memories and having a great time. plus, most of the time it starts on something very petty and small which just escalates.
The Jokes on You
This is about when I was in school (Year 8 to be precise) I was bullied very badly where people would tell me to jump off a bridge, cut myself, chase me with razor blades in the end of their pens they had made to try and cut me up. All these events still play on my mind but the satisfaction in knowing that I have made something of my life and I’m happy now. The fact that their ways have scared me but not stopped me and the joke is on them now as I have a very nice life and dare I say a lot better they how they turned out.
Turn Back Time (I’m So Sorry) – Album Version
Turn back time is about what I went through the day my mum passed away. It’s about the guilt that I feel for not being there at the time, the not knowing even though I physically couldn’t have known. It’s the what ifs and all the little questions that eat away at me.
This is a slightly different version to the Single version.
Too Much
Too Much is about the fact that I never thought that love would ever happen to me. I always thought I was not capable of being loved. It’s about these questions.
Have you ever felt you don’t deserve anything? You have gotten something that you don’t feel you should have? You are scared that what you have got could all be taken away from you leaving you vulnerable again? Does it all feel a little too much sometimes.
One That Got Away
One That Got Away is about the roads that you didn’t take in life, it’s about knowing that these would have been very treacherous and the wrong choice to make. It’s about reflecting on what’s around you and realising that things are good; it’s about realising that it could have been so much worse than you thought. Whether it about an ex, your career, things that have happened in your live or about groups that you distanced yourself from knowing they are no good for you. This song came about when I was in the garden burning a lot of things.
This Version is longer than the single version.
Nothinz Gonna Stop M£
This is about wanting to go out and letting your hair down and have a good night, no matter what people say about you, what’s going on in your life at the time. You just want to get out and enjoy yourself.
Sleep won’t stop you; Money won’t stop you; venomous bitches won’t stop you either. It’s your life, live it how you want to live it and have fun.
Overthinking
I wrote this song when my mind was going wild. It’s about how one thing that happens to me can send me into a spiral. This really happened and one day I wrote this to try and stop myself. It was over something so stupid and small but because of that it made me think no one liked me, it made me think they were singling me out, it made me feel like they didn’t want me around, I honestly thought they were pushing me out and it just got bigger and bigger, and I was falling harder. It turned out to be a very valid reason that made me feel stupid for questioning everything under the sun.
Rules (Blah Blah)
This song is about pushing my buttons, it’s about people knowing exactly what makes me tick. This is mainly about the times when I was in school or college and the number of rules that I broke because they just didn’t suit me.
Also I use to break rules to try and fit in and reduce the amount of bulling I received, This didn’t work. So it made me question rules in general, I break rules like them, but they still don’t like me, so I don’t fit there rules. It was a constant spiral, and I just didn’t know what rules the correct ones were to follow so made my own up to follow.
Playing Tricks on Me
I remember vividly when and where this happened. One day I was doing the school run and just listening to some music, a lady was walking with their back to me and my heart sank, I remember thinking to myself that she looked exactly like my mum. I remember it was down a road near the school outside Tesco, she was walking like my mum did, same hair, same style of clothes as well. I was convinced it was her, but my mind was just playing tricks on me because I knew it was physically impossible to have been her.
I then remember I burst into tears because I got so overwhelmed by the whole thing. This resulting in me going down a very dark hole for a long time, I ended up seeking help from wellbeing to help me out.
Game Show
People these days really love to play games with you in life, They really love to test you at everything you do.
This song is about trying to compete with you to try and be bigger and better than you. I’ve referenced this to being like a game show because you feel like you’re a contestant trying to get the top prize and be on top of everyone else.
It’s about people trying to put you down, show off that they think they are so much better than you and want to be the centre of attention and will do anything to achieve this.
There has been a lot of thought gone into this project and its was a real challenge to get this exactly how I wanted it.
I’m so proud of this album and what I’ve achieved, it’s a different sound then my first one but the meanings of the song are just as personal and meaningful to me.
Hope you enjoy the album and feel free to send your feedback to be.
Much love
Scott Berry