The Tipping Point is the seventh studio album by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 2022 through Concord Records.

The band were asked by their (then) management company to collaborate with various younger artists in an attempt to create a more contemporary- and commercial-sounding album.

Earlier that year (on April 7), Orzabal uploaded a demo version of "Please Be Happy", sung by him (as opposed to Smith on the final release, which is also sped up so it is now a half-step higher), on SoundCloud.

The duo lost focus on the project for a while as Orzabal struggled with health problems following the death of his wife, and Smith even contemplated walking away from the band altogether.

[14] The song was described as a restarting point after the band had been unhappy with the first version of the album, which was dominated by tracks that had been created with younger producers.

In an interview with RetroPop Magazine Curt Smith explained that the song is basically about how he and Roland learned to solve disagreements through honest and open dialogue.

[32][31][33] In Record Collector Charles Waring wrote that The Tipping Point is "quite possibly the duo’s most impressive musical offering in a mostly glorious 40-year career.

It features all the familiar elements we long associate with classic Tears For Fears – big, sing-along choruses and deeply thoughtful lyrics married to dramatic arrangements – but without the bombastic production values that defined their synth-heavy 80s records", praising it "an album blazing with a refulgent light that illuminates the darkness.

"[32] "Across the next nine tracks they deliver pounding pop thrills and arena-sized catharsis, in a style that refines their distinctive sound instead of pimping it up", Helen Brown of The Independent wrote, also giving the album a full five star rating.

"[4] Less positive, The Observer's Phil Mongredien found that "while it all sounds impeccably polished, it lacks the sort of killer hook that used to consistently elevate them above their mid-80s peers.