“Fake” is a collaboration between Lauv and Conan Gray with an upbeat tune. In this single, both artists complain about the prevalence of fake friends in their lives.

The collaboration was hinted four days before the release on both Lauv and Conan Gray’s TikTok accounts. This track also happens to be Gray’s first collaboration.

In an interview with PAPER Magazine, Gray discusses how the song had came to be.

Yeah, we were literally just ranting. It was barely writing a song. We were just talking and ranting about weird ass people, who are just fake.

He also discusses the complexity and complications of fake friends as you grow older.

I feel like there’s so much bullshit when it comes to like, friends and relationships, especially as you get older. It gets so complicated. […] It’s like, the older you get, it gets so complicated with all this drama. It gets so confusing. We were literally just ranting and it turned into a song, it was a lot of fun.