Faceshopping

## Music video

"**Faceshopping"** is a song performed by SOPHIE. It is the third track from SOPHIE's debut album, OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES. It's serves as the third and final single from the album released on February 16, 2018.

## **Background**

> “It’s about the emphasized idea that if you’re showing more face, you’re somehow being more real, but of course, there is a flip side to that, where you have false identities or different projections of yourself that you’re able to cultivate through your image."
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Similar to Ponyboy, Faceshopping was played several times before release, as early as October 2017. A music video for the song was released on February 4th 2018, with the proper release of the single on the 16th of the same month.

Faceshopping was written alongside Cecile Believe. Its lyrics talk about the beauty industry, beauty standards, stereotypes, and image manipulation.

## **Music Video**

The song's music video features a 3D render of SOPHIE's face and body being distorted in various ways, cut up amongst flashing images and the song's lyrics.

### **Visual Credits**

* Director: SOPHIE
* Co-director: Aaron Chan
* Producer: Imogene Strauss
* Production Co.: Industry Plant
* Creative Direction: Nicholas Harwood and Eric Wrenn
* Animation Design: Esteban Diacono
* Additional Character Design: Adam Gerber
* Sparkles: Cabbibo
* Editor: Aaron Chan

## **Lyrics**

**[Chorus 1]**

My face is the front of shop

My face is the real shop front

My shop is the face I front

I'm real when I shop my face

**[Verse 1]**

Artificial bloom

Hydroponic skin

Chemical release

Synthesise the real

Plastic surgery

Social dialect

Positive results

Documents of life

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Oh

Nana-nana-nana-nana

Nana-nana-nana-nana-na

Na-na-na-na-na

Na-nana-nana

**[Chorus 1]**

My face is the front of shop

My face is the real shop front

My shop is the face I front, front

I'm real when I shop my face

**[Verse 2]**

Scalpel, lipstick, gel

Action, camera, lights

Violence in your heart

Memories of love (What?)

Professor?

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Oh

Nana-nana-nana-nana (Hold it)

Nana-nana-nana-nana-na

Na-na-na-na-na

Na-nana-nana

**[Chorus 1]**

My face is the front of shop

My face is the real shop front

My shop is the face I front, front

I'm real when I shop my face

**[Bridge]**

So you must be the one

That I've seen in my dreams

Come on, touch me

Set my spirit free

Oh, test me

Do you feel what I feel?

Do you see what I see?

Oh, reduce me to nothingness

Yes, yes

**[Chorus 1]**

My face is the front of shop

My face is the real shop front

My shop is the face I front, front

I'm real when I shop my face

**[Chorus 2]**

And you know what I want

My face is the front of shop

So give me what I want

My face is the real shop front

I said everything I want

My shop is the face I front

So give me what I want

I'm real when I shop my face

**[Chorus 2]**

And you know what I want

My face is the front of shop

So give me what I want

My face is the real shop front

I said everything I want

My shop is the face I front

So give me what I want

I'm real when I shop my face

## **Trivia**

* Faceshopping shares rhythmic and sonic similarities with a 2016 demo that fans have dubbed as **SQUEEZE**. It also shares similarities with Vince Staples' SOPHIE produced track from early 2017, Yeah Right.
* The song was used in YouTuber ContraPoints' video about her experience with plastic surgery

## **Remixes**

* Faceshopping (Lipstick Gel Remix)
* Faceshopping (Euphoric Reduce Me To Nothingness Remix)
* Faceshopping (Money Mix)
* Pretend World (Shop Front)