Fake Smiles From Hollywood

"Fake Smiles From Hollywood" is the second single from Amy Marshall's second album Peculiar Secret.

Song information
While the previous single, "Teen Queens & iPod Dreams", was the critics' favorite from the album, "Fake Smiles From Hollywood" was the fans' favorite. The song describes through mini-stories the lives of Hollywood celebrities who cover up much of the drama they go through in their personal life while working in a career where they are always forced a smile for the camera.

Controversy
In an effort to change her boring persona, Amy decided to show she can promote, and with an attitude, by slamming the entertainment industry with every opportunity she had, from shouting obscenities in the name of Hollywood to giving free lunches to people who could potentially suffer from eating disorders. However, many in the entertainment industry felt Amy was just too desperate for attention in her motivation to slam Hollywood, and felt it was a promotional gimmick. Such a thing was further proven when Amy blamed her management team for the "minimal reaction" to the initial promo.

Many fans of Amy's didn't like she was milking her views, because she also recorded three other anti-Hollywood songs in the span of the single's promotion: covers of "Sort Of Fame" by Blush and "Movie Stars" by Volume Control (both of which were included as B-sides to the single) and "Hollywood & Go", a duet with Natasha Hilton on her debut album, Beautiful Innocence.

Track listings
CD1 1. Fake Smiles From Hollywood 2. Sort Of Fame 3. Movie Stars CD2 1. Blush's Fake Cookies Mash 2. Lemon Cosmos' Vanity Vogue Dub 3. Lady Lou's False Pose Remix 4. DJNY's Faux Mix 5. Everything's Fake Smiles 6. Fake Personalities From Hollywood 7. Fake Smiles Must Go On

Chart performance
"Fake Smiles From Hollywood" debuted at #3 on the Urapopstar Top 40 Singles Chart on June 11, 2006 with 70,435 copies, coming in just behind Robin and Russ Hooch. The following week, its sales increased just enough for it to climb to #2, outsold by Alex Washington by just 4000 copies. Its second week sales of 74,652 is Amy's second best one-week sales figure, beaten only by "No One/Mood Swing". It spent seven weeks in the top 40 and sold 199,769 copies, just a few hundred copies short of a gold certification.