Secrets (song)

### Writer(s)

Regard • RAYE • Johan Lenox • John Hill • Jordan Asher Cruz • Kennedi Lykken • Stephen Feigenbaum

## Music Video

**"Secrets"** is a song by RAYE and Regard, it was released as the third single and serves as the fourth track off Raye’s debut mini-album Euphoric Sad Songs.

## Background

Talking about the song on a YouTube documentary uploaded to Raye’s channel, she explains:

> ”Secrets is then when it’s like, you know, the beginning of a break-up when you’re being sweet to each other and it’s like “how are you doing?”. Like, you’re texting each other once a week, you know, “are you okay?” “yeah, I’m just dealing with it”. Secrets is when the ice hits, and you find yourself not knowing everything anymore. And find out he’s seeing people and sleeping with people. And you just have to like, be like, right.”
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## Lyrics

I don't know 'bout you, 'bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

I don't know 'bout you, bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

What a way to drop a bombshell baby

Guess you really didn't think I'd found out

Hear the silence crying

In the room on the side with the lights out

Know what you're feeling, oh-oh

Know what you're feeling, oh-oh

Fuckin' with my heart and head

(And again and again and again and again)

Fallen out of love again, yeah

(And again and again and again and again)

Rollin' up my blunt in bed (In my bed, in my bed, in my bed, in my bed)

Fallen out of love again

It's been a very, very long night

Sittin' with my girls, sippin' wine like

I don't know 'bout you, 'bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

I don't know 'bout you, bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, woah-oh

Oh, oh

I'ma have to take a mugshot, baby

What you're doin' to me is criminal, out here

On my knees, I'm prayin'

In the room on the floor with the lights down

Clothes in the kitchen, oh-oh-oh

I'ma light it and leave it for you

Fuckin' with my heart and head

(And again and again and again and again)

Fallen out of love again, yeah

(And again and again and again and again)

Rollin' up my blunt in bed (In my bed, in my bed, in my bed, in my bed)

Fallen out of love again

It's been a very, very long night

Sittin' with my girls, sippin' wine like

I don't know 'bout you, 'bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

I don't know 'bout you, bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, woah-oh

I don't know 'bout you, 'bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

I don't know 'bout you, bout you

'Bout you, you-you-you-you-you

There's something in his eyes

He's keeping secrets

## Composition

Musically, it is an English-language deep and retro-sounding club, house and R&B song. Accompanied by a "catchy" and "calm" melody, it contains a refined production, consisting of a playful, catchy and quiet-described beat with a funky bass line. Lyrically, the song touches on the theme of secrets, as Raye sings about someone who has something to hide. Regarding their collaboration, Raye stated:

> "I'd written the top line [of 'Secrets'], to a completely different song, with the same lyrics and melody, and it was a lot slower [...] I sent it to [Regard], and he sped it up, gave it a whole new chord thing, put these instruments in, gave it this crazy drop. He like, reignited what was a slow R&B song and made it into some rejuvenated sexy, pop-dance banger."
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In a 2021 "#SongwriterSaturday" interview with Kim Taylor Bennett of Spotify, Raye mentioned that she had "so much respect" for Regard for allowing her to have a co-lead artist credit on "Secrets" after feeling overlooked as a featured artist on dance songs in the past.

## Reception

Upon release, "Secrets" was met with critical acclaim from music critics. For Songtexte.com, Ramona highlighted Raye's vocal delivery and the song's production, and continued writing that "[the song] will heat up the dance floor at home during Corona and the dance floor in the club after Corona, properly". While Anna Sky Hulton from Planet Radio labelled the song an "amazing dancefloor filler", Ale Mancinelli from EDM Lab wrote that "['Secrets'] keeps some similarities with the sounds of ['Ride It'], however, [it] maintains originality and appeal". Writing for Radio FG, Jean-Baptiste Blandin viewed the song as a "powerful track [...] which has everything to become the new hit of the summer". Commercially, "Secrets" reached the top 10 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Croatia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Scotland and the United Kingdom, and also entered the top 50 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands and Slovakia. It further reached number eight on the *Billboard* US Dance/Electronic Songs chart. The song attained gold certifications in Austria, Belgium, France and Mexico as well as platinum in Australia, Poland and the UK. The song also appeared on several best songs of 2020 year-end lists, including ones published by Amazon Music and Tidal. In 2021, "Secrets" received a nomination in the category for the Song of the Year at the Brit Awards.

## Music video

Preceded by the release of a lyric video on April 23, 2020, a music video for "Secrets" was directed by Harry Lindley and uploaded to Regard's YouTube channel on June 19. The computer-generated imagery (CGI) video tells the story of a masked motorcyclist who is drawn to a mysterious location, before being chased down by an unknown pursuer. The video also features remote appearances from Regard driving through the late-night streets on a motorbike and Raye performing the song on several television screens. Rob Ulitski from Promo News commended the video as "slick" and "futuristic" in its style and wrote that "[it] leans into more conceptual territory, and delivers a high-energy, quickfire succession of striking set pieces". Writing for Celeb Mix, Katrina Rees complimented the video as "epic", which according to her "is perfectly suited to the club-ready [song], and [...] will no doubt help it continue [its] growing success over the coming weeks and months".

## Refrences

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://radiodate.it/radio-date/regard-x-raye-secrets-200477-01-05-2020-radiodate/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220831165003/https://nrj.com.cy/neo-hit-single-dj-regard-raye-secrets/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220909151143/https://www.radiofg.com/news/la-release-de-la-semaine-regard-raye-avec-secret-29446
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20220902174127/https://www.songtexte.com/news/regard-and-raye-mischen-mit-secrets-die-stimmung-auf
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aedu1LJ7\_so
6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220909134941/https://www.edm-lab.com/en/release/release-regard-raye-secrets/
7. ↑ https://archive.today/20201201182518/https://music.amazon.co.uk/playlists/B08PC77GV5
8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201211131203/https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/0d68e058-fe9c-444d-adf7-76d6e2138885
9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220909144952/https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2021-brit-award-nominees-full-list-9549017
10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220909145108/https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/brit-awards-2021
11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220908153133/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6soSrZBI78c
12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220903235717/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLN5HXsq04
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220831234008/https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/06/23/regard-raye-secrets-harry-lindley/65357
14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201124201829/https://www.eska.pl/news/regard-i-raye-pokazuja-mroczne-ulice-w-teledysku-hitu-secrets-to-hit-lata-aa-Np2X-9Vov-9JvW.html
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220908160122/https://celebmix.com/dj-regard-releases-music-video-for-secrets-featuring-raye/