“all my friends are fake” was originally released on YouTube unofficially by Tate in the September of 2019 before announcing the official release and music video on her Instagram.

Tate has mentioned that the song isn’t about her real friends, but instead more of a way to channel her writing. This isn’t the first time she’s mentioned using writing to express her emotions, in an Aupium article for her single, “tear myself apart,” she stated:

My songs are all of the words I can never say. I have a very hard time conveying my feelings through speaking, so I write in order to express myself. I sit in front of the piano and try to tell a story. Writing is how I let out everything that’s happened to me. It’s my way of really communicating.