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Bentez is back with her next track on CloudKid, ‘Good Manners,‘ a rock-influenced, edgy pop song about the frustrating feeling of having to have an answer on hand to any question or request that’s asked, but never knowing what to say or how to say it.

Bentez continues of the song, “There is always an internal fear of saying the wrong thing. And questioning what people might think of us, which is what often stops us from being our unapologetic, authentic selves. In the pursuit of others’ approval of our actions and decisions, we betray our own needs and desires, finding ourselves living by someone else’s rules. Writing ‘Good Manners‘ was my way of taking my power back. I would often second guess myself, or stop myself from saying or doing something simply out of fear of how it will be perceived. I’m sure we’ve all felt like we have to conform, more or less, to what is societally considered right or wrong, forgetting who we are and what we actually want in the process of doing so. With this song, I wanted to remind myself — and others — that the validation we should be seeking and the one that truly matters at the end of the day is our own. Whether being silent or too loud, we will always be judged for something, so might as well do what we want.”  

Credits: 

Written by: Yana Sabanova, Thomas Thurner, Charlie en Vogue

Produced and mixed by: Charlie en Vogue

Mastered by: Lex Barkey 

Released through CloudKid GmbH

Lyrics:

My word against yours
No key and a locked door
I’m overpowered 
You should be right and I’m wrong 
Well if you say so
Am I the coward?

You say 
I should keep my mouth shut
But never stay too quiet 
I’ve spent hours 
In living someone else’s life
Pretending it’s my own
And I’m so tired

Act like it don’t fucking matter
Give it to you on a silver platter
Cause I got good manners
But i’d rather see you’re mad at me 
I don’t care about my status
Gotta get my shit together 
Fuck my good manners
Yeah I’d rather see you’re mad at me

Got too caught up chasing validation
Always afraid of leaving the wrong impression 
I say what I like you can call me crazy
Cut the chit chat I know you hate me
Uh oh, I might’ve been a liar

This Is How The World Ends

Kat Leon

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