I wrote this song for a weekly songwriting challenge I completed back in 2022 to improve my lyricism and experiment with genres outside my comfort zone.

Each week had a word to use as inspiration to write a track around, the word for that week was ‘Strut.’ It ended up becoming a song about dealing with imposter syndrome.

I’ve noticed that social media encourages people to put these fake images of what their lives are like because no one wants to be seen as a failure or people want to impress their friends and family. After awhile it all gets so tiresome. So safe. So stale.

As a musician in the social media era, I feel like you are in a constant battle with everyone else for attention. If you aren’t being noticed, you aren’t successful, your art isn’t valid. So you join in the game, building up a fake persona, hopping on trends, doing what it takes to get eyes on you.

This track is me indulging in that game.

Anyways I’ll get off my soapbox. Hope you enjoy the song and that it connects with you. Really appreciate you checking it out!

Owner of this NFT will get access to future presales, collectors chat (once I get it setup) and can decide which song I upload to Catalog next!

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The vibes have been off recently

Feel like everyone can tell

A shell of my former self

Can’t wash this funk away

Hosed down dripping wet

Waiting for things to start looking up

Really need something to go my way

Then I found my answer

The secret to all my woes

So simple, yet slightly deceptive

It’s not like anyone will know

Smile for the camera

Strut your stuff, put on a show

Picturesque, living the dream

Smile for the camera

Strut your stuff, put on a show

Picturesque, living the dream

As far as they can tell

Remember playing make-believe with your friends after school

Funny how that turned out to career advice,

Funny how that turned out to be career advice

Maybe if I accept this lie, my truth will manifest itself before me

Fake it till you make it, that’s what they say

Fake it till you make it, isn’t that what they say?

Until then I’ll just

Smile for the camera

Strut your stuff, put on a show

Picturesque, living the dream

As far as they can tell

Smile for the camera

Strut your stuff, put on a show

Picturesque, picturesque, living the dream

Cause that’s all that matters anyway

that’s all that matters anyway

that’s all that matters anyway

that’s all that matters anyway