| "Fake It" | ||||
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| Single by Seether | ||||
| from the album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces | ||||
| Released | August 28, 2007 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2006–2007 | |||
| Genre | Post-grunge, alternative metal | |||
| Length | 3:16 | |||
| Label | Wind-up | |||
| Writer(s) | Shaun Morgan, Seether | |||
| Seether singles chronology | ||||
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"Fake It" is the first single from Seether's album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. The single quickly rose to number one on both the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts. It also reached number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, the second highest of their singles after "Broken", which reached number 20. The single was certified platinum by the RIAA.[1]
The original version of the song was first recorded in singer Shaun Morgan's bedroom and was an iTunes exclusive bonus track named "Quirk," included with pre-orders of Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces.
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The music video, which was directed by Tony Petrossian, debuted on Seether's website as part of a "worldwide fan premiere" on October 23, 2007, the same day the album was released. It shows Shaun Morgan filming a music video on a plane set, with girls dancing seductively around him. It then goes on to show the band playing in a snowy clearing and an industrial looking arena surrounded by fans. Each setting is then inundated with various parts of the others, such as having the scantily clad models from the plane dance through the snowy clearing, revealing all the various music video tropes to be faked in some way, through the use of props, bluescreen, or computer manipulation, reflecting the theme of the lyrics.
"Fake It" was announced to be the official theme song of the 2008 WWE No Way Out pay-per-view event that took place on February 17, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[2] It also appears on the soundtrack in the video game Burnout Paradise. In June 8, 2010, It was released in the Rock Band Network for Rock Band 2.
The song held the #1 spot for 14 weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It also spent 8 weeks atop the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. To date, the song is the most successful and only platinum single by the band.
| Chart (2007–2008) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 49 |
| Billboard Canadian Hot 100 | 38 |
| New Zealand RIANZ | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Active Rock[3] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 59 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 56 |
"Fake It" was featured in the Burnout Paradise game as one of the in-game soundtracks where it was ranked tenth on ProGamist's list of "Top 10 songs featured in racing games".[4]
| Preceded by "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single November 17, 2007 – February 16, 2008 |
Succeeded by "Psycho" by Puddle of Mudd |
| Preceded by "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single January 5, 2008 – February 23, 2008 |
Succeeded by "Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters |
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