Trying to Be Cool

"Trying to Be Cool"
Single by Phoenix
from the album Bankrupt!
Released	9 July 2013[1]
Recorded	2011–2012
Length	3:48 (album version) 3:33 (radio edit) 3:35 (remix)
Label	Loyauté Glassnote V2
Songwriter(s)	Thomas Pablo Croquet Christian Mazzalai Laurent Mazzalai Frederic Moulin
Producer(s)	Phoenix
Phoenix singles chronology
"Entertainment" (2013) "Trying to Be Cool" (2013) "S.O.S. in Bel Air" (2013)

"Trying to Be Cool" is a song by the French band Phoenix from their fifth album Bankrupt!. It was released as the second single from the album on 8 July 2013.^[1] The official remix features R. Kelly. The song became Phoenix's third top-ten hit on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, after "1901" and "Lisztomania". The song's cover includes a mint julep, which is said in one of the song's lines, "mint julep testosterone". Frontman Thomas Mars told Spin magazine the lyrics to "Trying to Be Cool" mainly analyse "the beauty of the fake".