I'm Just Being Honest

"本音なんだ。"
Album track by Scott & Rivers
Album	ニマイメ
Released	April 12, 2017
Length	3:25
Label	SMJ
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo, Scott Murphy, David Hodges
Producer(s)	Shawn Everett
Status	officially released
Stream	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spotify
ニマイメ track listing
	12 tracks "僕らの未来"; "Doo Wop"; "Fun in the Sun"; "カリフォルニア　サンシャイン"; "風吹けば"; "ニューガール"; "君はサイクロン"; "スコリバのテーマ"; "本音なんだ。"; "ハミングバード"; "変わらぬ想い"; Bonus track ; "パンツ脱ぐ";
	12 tracks "僕らの未来"; "Doo Wop"; "Fun in the Sun"; "カリフォルニア　サンシャイン"; "風吹けば"; "ニューガール"; "君はサイクロン"; "スコリバのテーマ"; "本音なんだ。"; "ハミングバード"; "変わらぬ想い"; Bonus track ; "パンツ脱ぐ";

"I'm Just Being Honest"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Weezer (The Black Album)
Released	March 1, 2019
Recorded	2018
Length	3:57
Label	Crush Music/Atlantic Records
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo, Ammar Malik, David Hodges
Producer(s)	Dave Sitek
Status	officially released
Live debut	July 3, 2023 in Canandaigua, New York
Stream	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spotify
Weezer (The Black Album) track listing
	10 tracks "Can't Knock the Hustle"; "Zombie Bastards"; "High as a Kite"; "Living in L.A."; "Piece of Cake"; "I'm Just Being Honest"; "Too Many Thoughts in My Head"; "The Prince Who Wanted Everything"; "Byzantine"; "California Snow";
	10 tracks "Can't Knock the Hustle"; "Zombie Bastards"; "High as a Kite"; "Living in L.A."; "Piece of Cake"; "I'm Just Being Honest"; "Too Many Thoughts in My Head"; "The Prince Who Wanted Everything"; "Byzantine"; "California Snow";

"I'm Just Being Honest" (or "本音なんだ。" Hon'nena nda) is the sixth track from The Black Album. It was first released in 2017 as the ninth track from Nimaime (ニマイメ) by Scott & Rivers. The Weezer version of "I'm Just Being Honest" was leaked online on February 26, 2019 prior to its official release on March 1.

Appearances

Nimaime (2017)
Weezer (The Black Album) (2019)

Overview

The Japanese version of the song heard on the Scott & Rivers album was released in 2017, with the English version by Weezer following in 2019. Both versions contain virtually the same lyrical content. The song was a collaboration between Rivers Cuomo and musician/producer David Hodges. Scott Murphy also receives a writing credit on the Japanese version, with songwriter Ammar Malik receiving a credit on the English version.

Rivers Cuomo is not known to be of Irish descent, and the lyric “Maybe it’s because I’m Irish” is likely an allusion to a line from the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, in which the (obviously African-American) character Red utters the same phrase. The song "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" (from the same album) also features a line from the film ("Boy found brains he never knew he had"). Cuomo utilized Python scripting^[1] on The Black Album to generate lyrics from film scripts.

A "clean" version of "I'm Just Being Honest" was included in a promotional "island" inside the online multiplayer video game Fortnite.^[2] This version censors the word "shit."

Though "I'm Just Being Honest" has never been performed as a band, Cuomo played a solo, acoustic rendition of the song at a concert in Canandaigua, New York in 2023.

Audio

Lyrics

Walk into the venue
You slip me your CD
Ask me if I'd listen
Give you my critique

I listen to it
But half-way through it
I had to quit
Your band sounds like shit

So, here we go
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest
I should have lied
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest

Walk into the bedroom
You were standing there
Turn around and smiled at me and said
You just cut your hair

But then I told you
I thought you looked better before
You said "I hope you like sleepin' on the floor"

So, here we go
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest
I should have lied
But now you're mad at me
I'm just being honest

How 'bout from now on
You'll write the script
I'll read the lines?
So, here we go
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest

And now I'm starin' at a napkin
With seven digits that I can't make out
She wrote it down in purple lipstick
I should have never
I should have never opened up

And maybe it's because I'm Irish
I just couldn't keep my big mouth shut
Is that an eight? Is that a zero?
I should have never
I should have never opened up

So, here we go
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest
I should have lied
But now you're mad at me
I'm just being honest

How 'bout from now on
You'll write the script
I'll read the lines?

So, here we go
Don't get mad at me
I'm just being honest

Whoa-oh (I'm just being honest)
Whoa-oh (I'm just being honest)

ライブ前に
デモ渡され
聴いてほしいと
そう言われて

聴いてみた
すぐやめた
全てが
ひどすぎた

そう　それも　現実
受け止めたら？
嘘　言えば　よかったの？
本音なんだ。

明かりの下
後ろ姿
いつもと違うね
髪　変えた？

切る前の
君の方が
好きだと
うっかり言ったよ

台詞　書いてくれたら読むよ
そう　これも　現実
受け止めてよ

子供の頃
正直に
生きるよう言われた
それなのに

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Just Being Honest	`I Was Just Being Honest.mp3`	2011—2014		0:48	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Scott & Rivers	本音なんだ。				3:25	ニマイメ
Rivers Cuomo	I'm Just Being Honest	`I'm Just Being Honest 5.m4a`
Rivers Cuomo	I'm Just Being Honest	`i'm just being honest 9.mp3`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`I’M JUST BEING HONEST_RIVERS.rtf`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`I'm_just_being_honest_bridge_lyrics_2018_5_30_10_4_29.mp3`	May 30, 2018
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`BASS BOUNCE - I'm Just Being Honest.wav.asd`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`DRUM BOUNCE - I'm Just Being Honest.wav.asd`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`JUST BEING HONEST KEY DOWN 102318_1.mp3`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`JUST BEING HONEST KEY DOWN INSTRUMENTAL 102318_1.mp3`
?	I'm Just Being Honest	`JUST BEING HONEST MARYCHAIN.mp3`
Weezer	I'm Just Being Honest	`JustBeingHonest Matty Ref 6 LIM.mp3`
Weezer	I'm Just Being Honest		2018	United Recording, Los Angeles, CA Federal Prism Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:57	Weezer (The Black Album)
Weezer	I'm Just Being Honest	`06 Im Just Being Honest.OGG`	2018	United Recording, Los Angeles, CA Federal Prism Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:57	Fortnite (video game)	"Clean" version

References

↑ Heater, Brian. "Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding" TechCrunch+ 25 November 2020. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-rivers-cuomo-finds-meaning-in-coding/
↑ Shah, Saqib. "Weezer made an island in 'Fortnite' to promote its new album" Engadget. 1 March 2019. https://www.engadget.com/2019-03-01-weezer-fortnite-new-album.html

[1] Heater, Brian. "Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding" TechCrunch+ 25 November 2020. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-rivers-cuomo-finds-meaning-in-coding/

[2] Shah, Saqib. "Weezer made an island in 'Fortnite' to promote its new album" Engadget. 1 March 2019. https://www.engadget.com/2019-03-01-weezer-fortnite-new-album.html

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