Faking Love Lyrics

[Verse 1: Anitta]
You tell me you're leaving today
You're packing your bags up for good
I'm not gonna stand in your way
Baby, I'd cry if I could, but

[Chorus: Anitta]
I keep faking love
I keep faking love with you
I been faking love
I been faking love, it's true
Now we breaking up
Now we breaking up, boo-hoo
But I been faking love
I been faking love with you

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 2: Saweetie]
Boy, bye
Thought I was a fool, nice try
Need a invoice for my time
You done killed my vibe
Thinkin' I'm a ride or die
Matter a fact, click-clack, bye
They know why, ain't no one surprised I'm in these streets
Let me live my life, throw a party when you leave, leave, leavе
[Verse 3: Saweetie & Anitta]
Hey, Anitta, we're thе divas
With a 401k in Ibiza
And she bonita, I wanna meet her
Can you balance work and pleasure like a libra?
I'm at Ipanema with a couple bad bitches (Yeah)
Tannin' topless and we takin' mad pictures (Uh-huh)
Fragile ego, now you gotta gas niggas
Faking love, I need somethin' that's realer

[Verse 4: Anitta]
Feel like I'm running out of ways to say (Say)
That I ain't feeling any type of way about you
Keep getting caught up when your hands on me
Like ooh, I (Want it), I (Got it), ain't sorry, but I got
All I'm needin', all I need
I'll be leaving, I'll be gone (Gone), gone
Do as I please, oh, baby, it's too easy to let you go (Oh-oh)
So (Yeah)

[Chorus: Anitta]
I keep faking love
I keep faking love with you
I been faking love
I been faking love, it's true
Now we breaking up
Now we breaking up, boo-hoo
But I been faking love
I been faking love with you
[Instrumental Bridge: Anitta]
I been faking love with you

[Chorus: Anitta]
I keep faking love (Yeah, yeah)
I keep faking love with you (Yeah, yeah)
I been faking love (Ha!)
I been faking love, it's true (Oh)
Now we breaking up (Breaking up)
Now we breaking up, boo-hoo
But I been faking love
I been faking love with you

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About

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Released as the third single from Anitta’s upcoming fifth studio album, Girl from Rio (2022), “Faking Love” marks the first collaboration between the singer and American rapper Saweetie.

Over Brazilian funk beats, the style Anitta first achieved success for in her home country, the two artists sing about a break-up that leaves no hurt as there were no real feelings involved.

Anitta and Saweetie first met at the 2021 Met Gala, on September 13th, when they posted a selfie together on social media. Anitta then started teasing a new song on October 9th by posting behind-the-scenes pictures of a music video. Two days later, she announced the title of the track and that it would be a collaboration. Finally, Saweetie was revealed as the featured artist the next day.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

Have these artists collaborated before?
Genius Answer

No. This song marks the first collaboration between the two artists.

Is there a live performance of this song?
Genius Answer

Yes, Anitta and Saweetie performed the song live on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

What have the artists said about the music video?
Genius Answer

When Anitta went to Brazil in November 2021 she gave an interview to Camila Loures and Vírgina in a podcast. In the interview, she says she doesn’t like the music video for Faking Love, Vírgina asks “Who convinced you to publish the music video?” and Anitta replies “My money that was spent”.

“Do you want to know? Let’s hire someone and let the person do it, without me getting involved? Let’s see what happens, right? Let’s try, try something, an idea from someone different” said Anitta about the main idea of ​​the music video for Faking Love. She said the music video had a lot of delays, on the day of the recording she had a flight to catch at 11 pm and it was 7pm and there were only 2 scenes recorded. She says if she’s going to record something, she’s going to record, “I might be dead, I’m going there dead” she says. She says she was super nice and polite at first from the recording, but when she was late she got angry, she got even more angry when it was 9 pm and she was about to catch the flight, she says she fought and screamed a lot, even cursed the production, “I’m absolutely sure that the producers of the music video hate me, this is the certainty that I have the most in life […] With this producer I never do it again” said Anitta about the producers of the music video. She ended up missing the flight and the commitments she had. And about the clip from Envolver, she said “I’ll do everything myself and that’s it”


The interview is available in Brazilian Portuguese in podcast format on Spotify and video format on YouTube.

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