| Truth | |
| Cover: | Truth by Chiddy Bang Cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Chiddy Bang |
| Album: | The Swelly Express and the EP The Preview |
| Released: | 17 May 2010 |
| Genre: | Rave-rap,[1] pop |
| Length: | 2:55 |
| Label: | EMI |
| Producer: | Xaphoon Jones |
| Chronology: | Chiddy Bang |
| Prev Title: | Opposite of Adults |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Mind Your Manners |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"Truth" is the second single released from American band Chiddy Bang. It was released in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2010 as a Digital Download and the CD Single was released the next day.[2] The single samples Passion Pit's "Better Things" from the Chunk of Change EP that was released in 2008.
Fraser McAlpine of BBC Chart Blog gave the song a positive review stating:
"Is anybody there?" shouts a worried Chiddy, while something slowish - namely Passion Pit's 'Better Things' - plays far too fast in the background, "I mean I hope somebody out there can hear this right here. Just listen..."It's a curiously insecure way to start an upbeat pop song, donchathink? It's more the sort of thing you'd expect from a guerilla radio station, broadcasting from the middle of the end of the world, or a last transmission from an abandoned spaceship, set to music, because it's in a sci-fi musical. A hip hop sci-fi musical, no less.
And it raises an interesting philosophical question: if a rapper busts rhymes in the forest and there's no-one there to hear him, can he still boast?.[3]
"Truth" debuted on the UK Singles Chart on 23 May 2010 at number 50, despite the success of previous single "Opposite of Adults", as well as entering the UK R&B Chart at number 18. The single's time in the singles chart was short lived as it dropped out of the Top 100 on its second week, and fell to number 33 on the R&B chart.
| Region | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 17 May 2010 | Digital download[5] | EMI |
| 18 May 2010 | CD single | Regal Recordings |