Genre: Synth pop, Electro House, Dubstep
Length: 3:38
Writer (s): mISTER_b, ElectroLightz, Lilly Stuart
Producer (s): mISTER_b, Electrolightz, Lilly Stuart
Voice: Kourtney
Production and SongwritingA synth pop riff introduces this track with Kourtney coming singing along with it the first verses of the track. Kourtney has a pure clean vocal performance in this first verse which serves to give the certain harmony the song requires in contrast to its synth beat. Later on there’s addition of some house beats increased by Kourtney’s high notes vocals, as she sings the song’s pre-chorus verse. When it finally drops it full form EDM sound, it’s clearly perceived the influence of dubstep beats on it.
At the chorus of the song, Kourtney does not sound as clean as she sounded in the first verse of it, she’s accompanied by heavy bass, whistles and house beats, loud and up-tempo. The high level of emotion showed before in the track, sort of disappeared to give space to a more club oriented lack of emotion melody.
But then the song slows down a little and its heavy bass and whistle are switched to a more progressive house sound, where Kourtney sounds clean again, but still harder than the first verse of the song. But quickly after this switch, the drums come together with the bass and drop that breakdown again, but Kourtney remain singing over it.
Further into the track, it goes back finally to its first synth base melody, where only Kourtney and that repetitive synth beat are played, and all that emotional vocals heard in the beginning of the track are back in full form. The differences between this part of the song and the first part, is a piano riff added to the synth beat, giving it a little more harmony than just Kourtney’s vocal performance.
The track gets closer to another chorus and all the drums and bass and house beats come together to drop the breakdown moment of the track, now for the second time. The drums are not so dubstep oriented as they were before, they’re more influenced by the house beats, and so the breakdown is soft than before. Kourtney kept singing the songs verses all over the breakdown and through it mISTER_b did some incredible mix to the base melody of the track, making it sounds up-tempo and futuristic in its final seconds.
Kourtney determines the harmony of this track with her thin and clean vocals, she sounds louder than the song’s beats making the song more of a vocal performance than the sound itself.
The main theme of the track is about lies and basically a person is asking its love interest or whatever other relationship that demands loyalty from one to another, the reason why of all those lies and fake stories which probably this person is feeling while trying to understand the acts of its beloved one. When you live with someone you think you know, but in the end you really don’t know who this person is, that’s the main theme of the track. It was written by mISTER_b, Electrolightz and Lilly Stuart and they also produced the track together.
Working with KourtneyKourtney was one of the first acts to be invited to join the project, the same time mISTER_b was in talks with Isabel to do collaboration on his album. mISTER_b thought about a song that would praise Kourtney’s vocal range, once that he thinks she has a beautiful voice that must not be covered by too many production on the melody of the song.
Despite the track ended up being highly produced in that aspect, he kept Kourtney’s vocals louder than his beats. It took one day to record this track and three days to approach Kourtney to travel to New York. She spent one week in New York to record the track to watch over the production over it, till it was completely done and mastered.
Additional backing vocals of the track were performed by Gemma Urie, mISTER_b found out that both vocals matched perfectly together and so there was no need for Kourtney to record any backing vocal to the track.
Quote:“I love when a singer has that distinct tone to his or her voice and Kourtney has one of those young adult tones to her voice even though she’s a little older to have a voice like that and this makes her so unique and versatile to work with. She did a wonderful job with this track and I wanted to this song be more of the vocal and the sounds, despite I think I failed in this task, because while we were working together, Kourtney told me that I was one of her favorites DJs because I use to do crazy things with electronic beats, so I kind of didn’t want to disappoint her and so I did crazy stuff by mixing dubstep, house and synth pop. The lyrics are more straight forward than the firs tracks of the record, we’re not making analogies and sounding poetic or anything like that, we’re really being honest and frank and I like the bravery of really saying the truth to people you love, even those words are not what they want to hear, you know, I’m a very honest person and I do expect people to be honest with me too. That’s what this song is about.”
Truth never hurt more than lies
Please can you be sincere this time
I have believed in this whole life
Come and tell me why
You took me in a crazy way
But I won’t survive one more day
I believed in you all this time
I deserve the reason why
Will you say the truth for me?
I am tired to believe, take me back to reality
Will you say the truth for me?
Will you show yourself for me?
Will you drop your mask for me?
I can’t stand anymore lies
So please tell me the reason why
Stop pretending there’s no more time
I can’t stand anymore lies
So please tell me the reason why
I had put my trust in you
I never doubted your candour
So I’ll take a while to understand
Don’t ask me to comprehend
No, I’m not playing the victim
But you’re acting as a stealer
When everything makes sense
You have stolen my innocence
Will you say the truth for me?
Will you say the truth for me?
Will you show yourself for me?
Will you drop your mask for me?
I can’t stand anymore lies
So please tell me the reason why
Stop pretending there’s no more time
I can’t stand anymore lies
So please tell me the reason why
Tell me who you really are
Show me your truly heart
‘Cause I can’t stand anymore
I bear it for too long, so tell me who you really are