Fake Friends by New York DJ/producer PS1 is quickly shaping up to be one of the songs of summer 2020. Despite on the surface sounding like the kind of rousing piano-house banger you'd expect to soundtrack a Love Island or Ibiza Weekender incidental, it's also acts a caution against the culture those shows have helped create.
Australian singer-songwriter Alex Hosking, who performs on the track, sings about false perceptions and dressing up in "tinsel, botox, perfect smiles", before suggesting with deliberate vacant expression over a blazing bassline on the chorus: "Maybe we can feel like the others...
they know how to have fun". The accompanying music video, premiered below, is a worryingly familiar scenario: a secretly despondent social
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