Songfacts®:

• On "Boy's A Liar," PinkPantheress talks about her feelings for a shallow romantic interest. The boy is playing with her emotions and making her feel insecure.
  
  She only seems to appeal to him when she's plastered with makeup.
  
  Because you only want to hold me when I'm looking good enough
  
  PinkPantheress won't believe he genuinely loves her until he proposes.
  
  Can you take a look inside your heart, is there any room for me?
  I won't have to hold my breath till you get down on one knee
  
  On the hook, the singer concludes that the boy's dishonesty stops them from truly connecting.
  
  The boy's a liar, the boy's a liar
  He doesn't see ya, you're not looking at me, boy
• PinkPantheress wrote "Boy's A Liar" herself. She co-produced it with Mura Masa, marking her third collaboration with the British music producer. They first hooked up for her 2021 single "Just For Me," then in February 2022 she performed on his track "Bbycakes" along with Lil Uzi Vert and Shygirl.
• PinkPantheress posted a snippet of a sped-up version a few days before dropping "Boy's A Liar." It went viral, creating hype before the song's release on November 30, 2022.
• Ice Spice jumped on the remix, which PinkPantheress dropped on February 3, 2023.
  
  "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" is similar to the original by PinkPantheress, with the addition of a third verse from Ice Spice. The American rapper's verse continues the theme of addressing a deceitful partner, with Ice's significant other being unfaithful but still occupying her thoughts. Despite vowing to ignore his attempts to contact her, Ice acknowledges she has developed genuine emotions.
• PinkPantheress normally isn't into remixes and is very picky with collaborations, but she made an exception for Ice Spice after they exchanged messages on Instagram. "Even though Ice Spice does drill, her flows are super unique and the beats she chooses are different," PinkPantheress said to NME. "A lot of people would struggle with the beats I choose, but I knew she'd be good for it."
• Ice Spice usually exudes self-assurance on her raps. So how did PinkPantheress get the Bronx artist to wax poetically about rejection? "My songs are quite dark lyrically," said the British singer. "With Ice Spice, once you see the world she embodies and what she looks like, it makes you view the music differently. I listened to her and I'm like, 'Oh, she's actually more cute than a savage.' I guess it was a good opportunity for her to show a more vulnerable side. I think it's good to create more of a three-dimensional character as a musician."
• PinkPantheress lives 10 minutes down the road from Mura Masa, so they often meet up. The pair made "Boy's A Liar" in the little studio at the bottom of Mura Masa's garden. "We're oddly not very verbal with our communication," Masa told Billboard. "We just kinda hang out and maybe one word or phrase will get tossed around, and then I'll start a beat. I wish it was a more remarkable story, to be honest, but it was made in a couple of hours, like most things that we do. She took the idea and went away and worked on it by herself, and restructured it, wrote some different parts. But basically, the final record is what we did in those few hours, which I love."
• The pair performed the song together for the first time when Ice Spice brought PinkPantheress out during her Wireless set in London on July 7, 2023.
• PinkPantheress is not a fan of "Boy's A Liar" nor its Ice-Spice featuring remix. "They're crap," she told Guardian. "The songs that are not my greatest are the ones that do better."
  
  PinkPantheress went on to admit that she "didn't expect it to be my biggest song": "I thought on an internet level it was going to be big. I didn't expect it to be big on the radio."
• The Ice Spice remix was Exclaim!'s Best Song of 2023. They wrote:
  
  "An update on PinkPantheress's 2022 single, the collaboration sees both artists at the height of their abilities, uniting against duplicitous dudes over catchy-as-can-be production that plinks and bloops like an SNES soundtrack."