"What Makes You Beautiful" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It served as their debut single and lead single from their debut studio album, "Up All Night" (2011). Written by Savan Kotecha and producer Rami Yacoub, the song was released by Syco Records on 11 September 2011. The uptempo power pop track features a prominent guitar-based chorus and riff. The middle eight consists of a "na na na" hook. "What Makes You Beautiful" was a commercial success, reaching number one in several countries. It has been certified quadruple platinum in the US with sales of 4.8 million copies as of June 2016.
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What Makes You Beautiful
What Makes You Beautiful | Introduction
No. It was written by Savan Kotecha. No, it was written by Savan Kotecha and producer Rami Yacoub. Written by Savan Kotecha No, it was written by Savan Kotecha and producer Rami Yacoub.
who sings that's what makes you beautiful
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One Direction
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where are they from?
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London, England.
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how many songs have they sung?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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do they have any albums?
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Yes, "Up All Night" (2011), "Take Me Home" (2012), "Midnight Memories" (2013), among others.
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are they associated with any brands?
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Yes, Pokemon Black and White, Nokia, Colgate, among others.
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what did they do for the third brand?
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They teamed up with Colgate to launch their own One Direction Colgate MaxFresh Power Toothbrush, the One Direction Colgate Maxfresh Manual Toothbrush, and the One Direction Colgate MaxFresh Toothpaste.
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what about the second brand?
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They launched Nokia C3 and Nokia C2-02 phones.
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what are the functions of the latter phone?
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Touch and Type.
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how did the band mentioned earlier associate with this brand?
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To promote the launch Nokia made a series of photos of the band members using the phones to take photos of themselves.
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did this band write the lyrics of the song mentioned in the beginning?
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It kind of represented us, I think it took us a while to find it but I think we found the right song." Payne added, "We always wanted [the single] to be something that people didn't expect and then when we heard it, it wasn't what we expected either so it kind of fitted perfectly."
What Makes You Beautiful | Background and production
The album was recorded over two years in New York, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico.
Everything Is Beautiful (Princess Nokia album) | Production
"What Makes You Beautiful" was written by Savan Kotecha and Carl Falk, and was produced by Yacoub and Falk. Instrumentation was completed by Falk and Yacoub. Serban Ghenea handled the audio mixing, Tom Coyne the audio mastering, and John Hanes the mix engineering, for which Phil Seaford served as the assistant. Discussing the song's conception, Kotecha said: After recording the song at Cosmos Studios and Kinglet Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, the band felt relieved to have a song that they were happy to release as their debut single. Band member Liam Payne called the song "perfect", and Harry Styles said, "When we were recording in the studio we knew instantly that we wanted this track to be our first single." Styles spoke to MTV News, "I think for us we wanted to release something that wasn't cheesy but it was fun.
What Makes You Beautiful | Background and production
"What Makes You Beautiful" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It served as their debut single and lead single from their debut studio album, "Up All Night" (2011). Written by Savan Kotecha and producer Rami Yacoub, the song was released by Syco Records on 11 September 2011. The uptempo power pop track features a prominent guitar-based chorus and riff. The middle eight consists of a "na na na" hook. "What Makes You Beautiful" was a commercial success, reaching number one in several countries. It has been certified quadruple platinum in the US with sales of 4.8 million copies as of June 2016.
What Makes You Beautiful | Introduction
"What Makes You Beautiful" is a power pop song, with electropop influences. Running for 3 minutes and 23 seconds, the song is set in common time with a tempo of 125 beats per minute. Written in the key of E major, it follows the chord progression E–A–B; vocal elements range from the note of B to G. James C. McKinley Jr. of "The New York Times" compared its chord progression to "La Bamba". The opening guitar riff has been noted as similar to that of "Grease" single "Summer Nights". "What Makes You Beautiful" has a guitar-based chorus whose notes range from C to E; Digital Spy's Robert Copsey likened it to a cross between Pink's "Raise Your Glass" and McFly's "All About You".
What Makes You Beautiful | Composition
Everything Is Beautiful is the fourth studio album by American rapper Princess Nokia. It was released on February 26, 2020, on the same day as their third studio album, "Everything Sucks". The album was meant to represent the "sensitive, feminine side of Princess Nokia" and was recorded mostly with live instrumentation. The album was preceded by the single "Green Eggs and Ham". The album received positive reviews from critics.
Everything Is Beautiful (Princess Nokia album) | Introduction
The album received generally favourable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 75, based on 6 reviews. Reviewing the album in his Substack-published "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau said the album is "not beautiful, exactly—more cute like the piano parts, which, while not exactly pop because she doesn't exactly have the pipes, color if not define every one of these 12 chirpy, chin-up tracks."
Everything Is Beautiful (Princess Nokia album) | Critical reception
Artists including the Piano Guys have covered "What Makes You Beautiful".
What Makes You Beautiful | Introduction
The album is like a book covering various aspects of life in a specific order." In the beginning of the song, Blunt sings the first line twice (""My life is brilliant""). The mistimed delivery was left in the final recording, but omitted in most radio versions. This is parodied in "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "You're Pitiful": After the initial start, he says "What, was I too early? Oh, sorry. Should I...Do you wanna start over? Or, keep going? Okay. Now? Now?" and then begins the song again.
You're Beautiful | Writing and inspiration
In 2019, she had her debut performance as an actress in the independent film "Angelfish". In September 2019, she released a song titled "Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.)". It was described as "a bouncy, empowering bop built around dismissive lyrics about Nokia's enemies." In February 2020, Nokia released two albums: "Everything Sucks" and "Everything is Beautiful". "Pitchfork" described "Everything Sucks" as "locust swarm of angst, restless and frantic" and regarded "Everything is Beautiful" as "warm and expansive" in comparison to the former.
Princess Nokia | "Everything Sucks" and "Everything is Beautiful" (2019–present)
Personnel details were sourced from "Party Queen"'s liner notes booklet. Musicians and personnel
How Beautiful You Are (Ayumi Hamasaki song) | Personnel
The video features the band shot in black and white performing the song, intercut with quick edits of conceptual segments illustrating the song's lyrics in a literal fashion.
Beautiful Ones | Background
The song's lyrics concern the way a male photographer exploits his models.
You're Gorgeous | Lyrical meaning
It also contains cowbell instrumentation, and the middle eight consists of an "oh na na na" hook.
What Makes You Beautiful | Composition
Lipshutz noted its "cheeky electro-pop twist". Stephanie Abrahams of "TIME" assessed, "The group takes cues from the boy bands of yesteryear with bubblegum lyrics about young love — “The way you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed” they croon in their breakout single – which any parent can get behind. That's a far cry from a typical Nicki Minaj verse." "The Observer" editor Kitty Empire wrote in an assessment, "With the exception of their persuasive No 1 single, "What Makes You Beautiful", their songs aren't wildly distinctive." "What Makes You Beautiful" won the BRIT Award for Best British Single at the 2012 Brit Awards, which was held on 21 February 2012.
What Makes You Beautiful | Critical reception
During the final choruses the band and girls are shown sitting around a fire, lighting sparklers and taking photographs. On video sharing website MUZU TV, the video was the fourth most-watched music video of 2011 in the UK. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video, and earned the group the award for Best New Artist on 6 September 2012. As of November 2019, the music video has received 1.1 billion Vevo and YouTube views. A 4K video was also uploaded on July 23, 2020 and had over 11 million views as of October 2020.
What Makes You Beautiful | Music video
Credits adapted from the album liner notes. Technical credits Recording personnel
Not All the Beautiful Things | Personnel
'Beautiful' clearly fits the bill. It is a great song but not necessarily something a fan of any of our bands would even consider." The title is a reference to Devo's album "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!".
Are We Not Men? We Are Diva! | Introduction
The single peaked at number four on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and number one on the UK Singles Chart. The song won the 2012 Brit Award for British Single of the Year and was generally complimented by contemporary music critics, who highlighted the appeal to the teenage audience and the pop sensibility. It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart after setting a Sony Music Entertainment pre-order record and selling 153,965 copies in its first week. The single also topped the Irish and Scottish Singles Charts, and reached the top ten on the Australian and New Zealand Singles Charts, Flemish Ultratop 50, Canadian Hot 100, and the Japan Hot 100.
What Makes You Beautiful | Introduction
Newspapers have claimed that "You're Beautiful" is about a former girlfriend of Blunt, Dixie Chassay, casting assistant for the "Harry Potter" films, although Blunt refuses to confirm or deny this. On 8 March 2006 on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Blunt said of the song, "It's kind of miserable. It was about seeing my ex-girlfriend on the Underground in London with her new man, who I didn't know existed. She and I caught eyes and lived a lifetime in that moment, but didn't do anything about it and haven't seen each other since." According to Blunt, he wrote the lyrics of the song at home in two minutes after meeting her, and then finished the song with Sacha Skarbek in Los Angeles, and with Amanda Ghost also credited as a co-writer.
You're Beautiful | Writing and inspiration
It essentially consists of "sweet guitar-picking and delicate harmonies." According to critics, "Video Phone" contains lyrics that are in reference to "a celebration of Skype sex and putting on a solo show, on camera, for a guy you just met at the club". The remixed version featured both Beyoncé and Lady Gaga trading verses with one another. Musically the song consists of simple lyrics, with hidden innuendos, and is backed by thin-spread beats; Beyoncé and Gaga uttering gasps and groans while singing the song. "Disappear" consists of "sweet guitar-picking and delicate harmonies". "That's Why You're Beautiful" is a slow-tempo soft rock and rock power ballad, which consists of a "grungy" guitar riff and stuterring drums.
I Am... Sasha Fierce | Music and lyrics
The number corresponded to a ticket held by a fan from the tube; the colour of the fan's shirt was the correct answer for the "Red or Black?" challenge. The band performed "What Makes You Beautiful" after its B-side, "Na Na Na", at the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards on 9 October 2011. The band also performed the song to open telethon "Children in Need 2011" on 19 November 2011. After "Gotta Be You" and "One Thing", One Direction performed "What Makes You Beautiful" at Capital FM's "Jingle Bell Ball" on 4 December 2011, at The O Arena. They performed a medley of "She Makes Me Wanna" and "What Makes You Beautiful" with JLS on "The X Factor" eighth series final on 10 December 2011.t The group performed "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" on "Dancing on Ice" on 5 February 2012.
What Makes You Beautiful | Live performances
As a result, "What Makes You Beautiful" sold more than 131,000 copies in its first week, even though it had yet to be played on the radio. Radio programmers were flooded with calls from fans. Johnny Wright, who managed New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, said: "Now they are calling the radio station, and the radio station is scratching its head, saying, "We don't even have that record yet". It's almost like the return of the Beatles. I call it hype, but it's positive hype because it's all real. It's not manufactured. No one paid these kids."
What Makes You Beautiful | Release and promotion
The song keeps building, repeating the lyrics "Here it comes... Here it comes..." The music takes off and the little girl is quickly followed by a bombardment of fictionalized images, video clips, product shots and advertisements, all illustrating of the impossible standards of beauty in modern media. The film ends with a shot of the same girl walking to school with her classmates, and the text "talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does" appears on the screen. The viewer is then invited to the Campaign for Real Beauty's website.
Onslaught (Dove) | Introduction
"You're Gorgeous" is a song by the British band Babybird released as a commercial single in 1996. It became their only top-ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number three, and reached the top 40 in Australia, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and Sweden.
You're Gorgeous | Introduction
The music video's beauty contest concept was proposed by Beyoncé. In an interview with "New York Magazine", Matsoukas explained her response to Beyoncé's proposal: "I was like, 'Let's get into the toxic world and what we really do that is so damaging to ourselves, and use it as a microcosm for our society'. Obviously, those ideas don't just live in the pageant world; they live in our world. And that's what the song is about. And it felt like we had to take it there to make it have meaning, because otherwise it would be a superficial, preachy kind of song and visual." A scene from the clip which depicts Beyoncé preparing plastic surgery, consuming diet pills and vomiting, was initially excluded from the video's final cut.
Pretty Hurts | Development
This song seemed to convince the women that are not only beautiful in appearance, but also from the heart.
Love Is You (EP) | Introduction
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
So Beautiful or So What | Personnel
Information taken from Allmusic.
The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World | Personnel
Several versions of the song exist. One lyrical version has an explicit word in it (""She could see from my face that I was fucking high"") which was released on "Back to Bedlam" and most of the "You're Beautiful" singles. The radio edit of the song replaces the explicit lyric, changing it to ""She could see from my face that I was flying high"". Acoustic, live and DVD versions have also been released. However, because of the word in question, the album was given a Parental Advisory sticker. When asked about the song, Blunt responded, "It's probably one of the least meaningful songs on the album and by no means people's favourite.
You're Beautiful | Writing and inspiration
"Hello, You Beautiful Thing" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. It was released on May 23, 2014 on Atlantic Records as the first promotional single from his fifth studio album "Yes!".
Hello, You Beautiful Thing | Introduction
"You're Beautiful" is a song by English singer-songwriter James Blunt. It was written by Blunt, Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost for Blunt's debut album, "Back to Bedlam" (2004). It was released as the second single from the album in 2005. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the song reached number one and number two respectively. When released as the debut single from "Back to Bedlam" in Canada and the United States, it reached number one on both charts and received widespread airplay. In 2006, the song won an Ivor Novello Award for airplay. The song has sold 625,000 copies in the United Kingdom as stated by the Official Charts Company, and by October 2012 over three million in the United States.
You're Beautiful | Introduction
"Listen to the music... It's beautiful. You, You are part of it... for as long as you last."—Unnamed band member, Bellhouse Club gig, 12 January 2006
Superimposed (band) | Quotations
CD single (The Echo Label Ltd | MCD 80135) All songs written by Stephen Jones.
You're Gorgeous | Track listing
Similar to the UK, it re-entered at number 47, after the music video's release, before climbing from number 33 to number 7, after its official release. It became the band's eleventh top-ten single there. Elsewhere, the song performed moderately on the charts. In Australia, the song debuted and peaked at number 23, while in New Zealand, it reached number 22. It reached the top-twenty in Spain, where it peaked at number 13, but became their first single since their debut, "What Makes You Beautiful" (2011), to miss the top-ten, while in France, the song only managed to reach number 42, after the album's release.
You &amp; I (One Direction song) | Commercial performance
Jason Lipshutz of "Billboard" described the clip as "flirtatious", noting that it only provides a platform different from Mimi to be a diva, "Carey rotates with a short yellow dress for him [Miguel], the brightness of the headlights provide a spotlight for the singer improvised. James Robertson of the British newspaper "Daily Mirror" commented that "the song could have been written about stuffed animals or how cement – Mariah Carey would have still found a way to make the music video sexy.
Beautiful (Mariah Carey song) | Original
AllMusic editor William Ruhlmann noted that the band pursued "acoustic balladry" on the song. Kira L. Billik from "Associated Press" described it as a "sweet, pure acoustic ballad" "whose message is that the words "I love you" are becoming meaningless." It was also labeled as a "nontraditional love song" Larry Flick from "Billboard" wrote that this "tender, sparsely produced rock/love ballad proves that sometimes less really is more. The spotlight here is on the band's striking vocal harmonies, as well as its shimmering acoustic guitar work." The Daily Vault's Sean McCarthy said that it is a "beautiful, minimal acoustic number [that] made the band huge" and added that "for the band, "More Than Words" is the song that will still get airplay." Kirsten Frickle from "El Paisano" described it as an "all-acoustic ballad that is so beautiful it will make your hair stand on end".
More Than Words | Critical reception
This was at first rumoured among fans and later revealed by Holopainen in an interview. The chorus also contains the lyrics “Did you ever read what I wrote you?/ Did you ever listen to what we played?” in which the first part is a reference to the lyrics written by Holopainen, and the second part is about her lack of dedication to the music.
Bye Bye Beautiful | Content
The song's lyrics are a salute to women of various ages (early teens, middle twenties, and approaching middle age) dealing with the struggles of different phases of life - starting high school and facing new pressures, coping with uncertainty about a career, and reaching middle age - and tells them "You're beautiful the way you are." The song was released to country radio in mid-2003 and peaked at number 3 on the Hot Country Songs charts. A remixed version of the song was also a number 1 single on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. This version remained released only to radio until "" was released in 2008.
This One's for the Girls | Content
On the New Zealand Singles Chart, the single entered at number 16, and peaked at number 2 in its fourth and fifth weeks. The song spent eleven consecutive weeks in the chart's top ten. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ), denoting sales of 30,000 units. The single debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 9, while bowing at number 2 on the Canadian Hot Digital Songs Chart with 19,000 downloads sold, the biggest debut for a first time charted artist since the Stereos's "Summer Girl" entered at number two in June 2009.
What Makes You Beautiful | Chart performance
The video is featured on the bonus album included in the deluxe edition of "Kellie Pickler".
Don't You Know You're Beautiful | Music video
The song also became a chart success on other "Billboard" charts, reaching the top five on the Mainstream Top 40, Adult Pop Songs, and Hot 100 Airplay charts, whilst topping the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. The track sold 3,881,000 copies in the United States in 2012, becoming the best-selling song by a boy band in digital history. The song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 21 February 2013, and it has sold 4.8 million copies in the US as of June 2016. "What Makes You Beautiful" has sold over 7 million copies worldwide.
What Makes You Beautiful | Chart performance
The single peaked at number 7 on the Canadian Hot 100 and has been certified quadruple platinum by Music Canada, denoting sales of 320,000 copies. In the United States, "What Makes You Beautiful" became the highest "Billboard" Hot 100 debut for a British act since 1998. On 1 March 2012, the single debuted on the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 28, whilst bowing at number 12 on the Hot Digital Songs chart, selling 132,000 digital downloads in its first week. On the week ending 21 April 2012, "What Makes You Beautiful" peaked at number 4. As of 30 June 2012, the single had spent thirteen consecutive weeks in the "Billboard" Hot 100 top ten.
What Makes You Beautiful | Chart performance
"I had CDs and tape of new songs in the car. I came up with this one line, 'I found a way to make you smile.' All I knew was The Beach Boys had a record or a song called "Smile" – is that right? – so I was like, 'Well, this will be my gift to "[bandmates and Beach Boys fans]" Peter and Mike, and Bill at the time. It was hard to write. It was a high order to say, 'I found a way to make you smile.' I had to come up with, 'OK, what are those ways?' That was tough." Of the line, 'I found a way to make you smile', Stipe later recalled, "I just thought, that's the most beautiful thing in the world." Stipe had difficulty writing lyrics for the "Up" album.
At My Most Beautiful | Origin and recording
One Direction performed "What Makes You Beautiful" for the first time on "Red or Black?" on 10 September 2011. The performance started with hosts Ant & Dec announcing that the band was supposedly running late for their appearance, and cut to a video of One Direction boarding a London Tube carriage full of fans, as the studio version of the song began playing. Each fan on the tube was given a numbered ticket. The band and fans disembarked the tube and made their way to the television studio, where the remainder of the song was sung live. After the song, Styles caught a numbered ticket raining onstage.
What Makes You Beautiful | Live performances
"Beautiful Day" was written in several stages, originating from a composition called "Always" (later released as a B-side) that the band created in a small room at Hanover Quay Studio. However, they were initially unimpressed with it, as guitarist the Edge said, "As a straight rock song, it was pretty ho-hum." After lead vocalist Bono came up with the "beautiful day" lyric, the song went in a different direction. The Edge's backing vocals for the chorus were improvised one night with co producer Daniel Lanois, an addition he called "the key" to the chorus and its new lyrics. During the recording process for the "All That You Can't Leave Behind" album, the band decided to distance themselves from their 1990s experimentation with electronic dance music in favour of a "return to the traditional U2 sound".
Beautiful Day | Writing and recording
The music video begins with a girl trapped in a large bubble of water. The band is then shown to be playing in front of her. Throughout the video, she looks around inside her bubble, until the song's bridge, at which point the bubble explodes. Heavy rain then starts falling on the band, and intense winds begin to blow. The girl, now free from the bubble, is taken away by what appears to be an angel. The video closes with the band walking toward the camera.
You Are the One (Shiny Toy Guns song) | Music video
Imagine turning around in your bedroom, and looking at your bed that lies in the corner of your room and that person is still sleeping, and you want to wake that person up and you wanna tell that person your sorry for saying all the things that you said to make them believe that you were in love with them. That’s kinda where I’m at right now it’s um… It’s a very difficult thing for me to tell this person that, “I’m sorry. I don’t–I never loved you to begin with and I’m sorry that I told you that I did.” Instead of telling that person exactly how I feel, I wrote a song instead, and I’m playing in front of about 1,200 people at the Electric Ballroom.
The Blackest Beautiful | Lyrics
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Ugly Beauty | Personnel
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The Beautiful People (song) | Production credits
Amy Sciaretto of PopCrush noted that the lyrics address to "how the love of a good man can make you beautiful, and that love, not looks, are what’s important in life." Nadine Coyle has said that "Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me" was almost the lead single from "Ten" instead of "Something New" but she threatened to not take part in the reunion until the release plans had changed. She admitted to disliking the song as felt it was not a strong comeback single for the group and did not agree with its message, feeling that all women are beautiful regardless of whether anyone loves them or not.
Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me | Background and composition
Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful".
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | Personnel
Maliq & D'Essentials Additional musicians Production
The Beginning of a Beautiful Life | Personnel
Sophie Goddard from "Cosmopolitan" called the single "ridiculously catchy". "Student" Jack Murray rated "What Makes You Beautiful" five out of five stars and called it "not only the best pop single of the year so far, but potentially of any "X Factor" contestant ever". Murray lauded the songwriting and light production. Tanner Stransky of "Entertainment Weekly" awarded "What Makes You Beautiful" a B+ grade, calling the song "shallow but crushworthy", writing that the song shows that boy bands are not dying out. Jason Lipshutz of "Billboard" characterised it as "the real deal", regarding the song as "endlessly playable" as 'N Sync's "Bye Bye Bye".
What Makes You Beautiful | Critical reception
Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! is the debut studio album by Swedish post-rock band EF. It was released through And The Sound Records in the UK and through Thomason Sounds in Japan. The UK pressing comes as a digipak while the Japanese version comes as a standard jewel case.
Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | Introduction
According to Bono, she wrote the song at the age of 16 whilst "going through a tough time, and I wanted to write a song about being beautiful on the inside. That’s what really counts, and I just wanted it to be a feel good track that tells people its what is inside, not outside, that counts. I don’t care what you look like, its your heart that really matters, I want to feel your heart."
Beautiful (Sarah De Bono song) | Background
The music video for the song features band's performance with lyrics and rough hand illustrations scrawled across the screen. The drummer in the video is Bones Elias from the bands Heaven Below and Julien-K.
Life Is Beautiful (Sixx:A.M. song) | Music video
"Picture This" was written by Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri. According to Destri, Debbie Harry wrote the lyrics while Destri wrote the verse melody and Stein the chorus. Destri explained, "We all had little pieces of one anothers' songs, just throwing in bits. I always write with the band in mind." Producer Mike Chapman spoke glowingly of Harry's lyrics, writing, "The lyric to this day to me is elusive and beautiful. And it all came from this amazing girl." He explained his initial reaction to the song: Of the lyrics, Harry joked, "I was so excited that in 'Picture This' I rhymed 'solid' with 'wallet.' I thought, 'Wow! Things are happening now!
Picture This (Blondie song) | Background
The song opens with a verse performed by Miguel, which begins with the lyrics "Hop on the back of my bike, let the cool wind blow through your hair". At first, it does not appear to sound as though it is a song by Carey, as Miguel performs the first 90 seconds. Carey and Miguel embark on a motorbike cruise at sunset, as he sings about her beauty in the lyrics "let the moonlight kiss your skin". After the first 90 seconds, Carey assumes the lead artist role and performs the rest of "#Beautiful". Carey responds with "I like when you run red lights, don't stop till you thrill me", which Randall Roberts for "Los Angeles Times" thought would alarm mothers and police officers.
Beautiful (Mariah Carey song) | Composition and lyrical interpretation
"How Beautiful You Are" is a song by Japanese musician Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released on February 8, 2012 as the leading digital single from her thirteenth studio album, "Party Queen". The song was used at the theme song for the Kyōko Koizumi-starring Fuji Television drama "Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi".
How Beautiful You Are (Ayumi Hamasaki song) | Introduction
The accompanying music video, directed by John Urbano, depicts One Direction spending time on a beach in Malibu, California. The music video was uploaded to YouTube on 19 August 2011 and has accumulated more than 1.1 billion views since it premiered. The clip garnered the group three MTV Video Music Awards at the 2012 ceremony. One Direction performed the song live on televised shows, at awards ceremonies, and on four of their major concert tours: Up All Night Tour (2011–12), Take Me Home Tour (2013), Where We Are Tour (2014) and On the Road Again Tour (2015). Harry Styles performed the song on his .
What Makes You Beautiful | Introduction
The accompanying music video premiered on 4 December 2012 through the group's VEVO account and was directed by Paul Caslin. Opening with a drop of liquid, the video consists mostly of beauty shots from each member until they join each other on a living room with nothing but a couch. The video also featured product placement of a Nikon digital camera, Nikon 1 J2. James Robertson of "Daily Mirror" stated that "the accompanying video is as pretty as the title suggests... but our favourite bit has to be the most unsubtle product placement we've ever seen." Some music critics compared the work to the Spice Girls' music video "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)".
Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me | Music video
The song also won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Love Song at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards. "Newsround" called the song "fun, upbeat and incredibly catchy" while commenting "there's no way these boys won't be a hit". Jim Hiscox of The "Daily Star" named the song a "confident, classic pop floorfiller" and added that it is "catchy without being cheesy" and "mature without trying to be cool".
What Makes You Beautiful | Critical reception
The accompanying music video for "Beautiful" was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and premiered on December 9, 2002. It opens with Aguilera speaking the line "Don't look at me", followed by scenes of her singing alone in a room intercut with self-image-related sequences of other people. An anorexic girl examines herself in a mirror, eventually punching through it; a thin teenage boy stands lifting weights in a room plastered with images of bodybuilders; and an African-American girl rips out pages of women's magazines including photos of only white women and throws them into a fire. In one sequence, a girl is physically bullied by several peers, and in another, a goth man sits at the back of a bus while several people get up and move.
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song) | Music video
The music video for "What Makes You Beautiful" was directed by John Urbano. Filmed over two days in July 2011, it premiered on 19 August 2011. On each of the five days preceding the video's premiere, One Direction posted a teaser trailer of the video online. Each teaser showed footage from the video and behind the scenes, and one member of the band announcing how many days were left until the video premiere. The video opens with One Direction spending time on a Malibu, California beach intercut with scenes of them driving an orange campervan. During the second verse, a group of three girls joins the band at the beach; in Styles' bridge solo, he intimately sings to one girl, Madison McMillin, individually.
What Makes You Beautiful | Music video
The music video was released on July 15, 2014. The music video was directed by Jeff Nicholas and Jonathan Craven
Hello, You Beautiful Thing | Music video
"What Makes You Beautiful" premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 10 August 2011, and was released by Syco Music in Europe, Australia and New Zealand via digital download on 11 September 2011. A CD single was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2011, and followed in Australia and Germany on 25 November 2011 and 2 December 2011, respectively. In North America, the single was released in Canada via digital download on 31 January 2012. It was issued 14 February 2012 in the United States and was sent by Columbia Records to US contemporary hit radio (CHR) playlists on 28 February 2012.
What Makes You Beautiful | Release and promotion
"All the Beauty..." starts the trilogy of releases which tell a story of love and rejection. Zet (Henning Ramseth) from the band Ram-Zet produced the album, which was recorded in his personal recording studio in Norway, the Space Valley Studio. All the tracks have an instrumental transition that unites them, a continuity technique that wasn't used in the following two albums.
All the Beauty... | Background
"Shudder Before the Beautiful" opens with a quote by Richard Dawkins, and its lyrics include the "beauty of the world and everything it has to offer". Reminding Holopainen of "Once" and "Oceanborn", it features the first duel between him and guitarist Emppu Vuorinen in about 15 years. "Weak Fantasy", primarily written by Hietala, is considered the album's heaviest song by Holopainen. Its lyrics, which criticize how some religions restrict lives, were also co-written by Hietala (who contributed to an originally-instrumental (and acoustic guitar-centered) part of the song which the band felt was too long). On a later interview in 2016, he commented further on the song, stating that it is "a combination of an interesting metal song with a few interesting parts that dabble in Celtic folk with the acoustic guitars." During live performances, the message "wake up or die" is shown at the screen behind the band.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album) | Songs
In the verses, Spears is flirting with a guy, in lyrics such as "Look at you/Look at you/Be my sweetie/Be my honey tonight/Look at you/Look at you/Be my sweetie/Be my honey tonight/'Cause you're beautiful/Drop dead". Sabi rap's also alludes to the theme of the song, with lines such as "I think I like you/Boy, boy, look at you/I want to get next to you/Got me kind of hot but I ain't sweating you/Steaming like a pot full of vegetables". Spears references The Notorious B.I.G.'s hit "Hypnotize" in "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" in the line "You must be B.I.G. because you got me Hypnotized".
(Drop Dead) Beautiful | Composition
That's kind of an image that's always stayed with me, and part of the inspiration for this song.
This Picture (song) | Lyrics
The music video, which premiered on www.SixxSense.com on February 16, 2011, 12:00AM ET / 9:00PM CT, shows an introduction by Nikki Sixx, and followed by changing live shots of the band, as well as photographs shot by Sixx himself, and taken from his second book "This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx", on which the album "This Is Gonna Hurt" is based on.
Lies of the Beautiful People | Music video
The song received mixed reviews. CDJournal called the song a "beautifully magnificent ballad" that displayed Hamasaki's presence, however felt that the song's arrangement was disappointing. Music reviewer James Hadfield for Time Out Tokyo reacted strongly to the song, describing it as "wretched" and "generic".
How Beautiful You Are (Ayumi Hamasaki song) | Critical reception
It was as basic as that, they really were as dull as that. After a year of it they were going 'Why don't you have your hair this colour this year?' And I was going 'Oh God, a brick wall, I'm fighting a brick wall!' They don't understand even now.
Public Image (song) | Introduction
When the band performs the song live, they sometimes insert a small interlude after the chorus where Slade sings the refrains from either "Wonderwall" by Oasis, "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker or "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt.
Look After You | Live
The song's title refers to the digital editing software Adobe Photoshop and how it has been utilized in the cosmetics industry to alter people's images as a marketing ploy for their products. According to frontman Jonathan Higgs, "Photoshop Handsome looks at the world of digital image manipulation and computer game re-incarnation. What would it feel like to come back to life as one of the 'perfected', false, immortal beings that adorn magazine covers, adverts and games?".
Photoshop Handsome | Song meaning
Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Beautiful".
Pop a Bottle (Fill Me Up) | Credits and personnel
It was included on the set list of the group's headlining sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on 3 December 2012. One Direction performed the song on two of their major concert tours: "Up All Night Tour" (2011–12) and "Take Me Home Tour" (2013). Also this song added in "Where We Are Tour" (2014) & "On the Road Again Tour" (2015). The second verse of the song had originally been sung by Malik. After Malik's departure, Payne took his verse. In 2017, Harry performed the song on his .
What Makes You Beautiful | Live performances
When asked why he returned, he replied, "I got a bit of the taste back for it, but I don't know if it will last." He claims that the lyrics are based around "my love for creation and [to] express myself vocally through the music is something that comes up now and again."
I Begin | Background
So for some reason the knowledge reappeared in the Middle East, and there was a very strong movement of intellect there." "It’s kind of refreshing to remind ourselves where those beautiful things come from. The numbers we use, that’s where it’s from. Algebra, that’s where it’s from. Of course, we are not waking up in the morning and getting a fix of algebra. That’s not what I’m saying. But we take those things for granted. I think it’s very interesting and beautiful to discover and understand where those things are from." Though Lemay wrote the majority of the first 20 minutes of the song, every band member contributed their own ideas and details to the songwriting.
Pleiades' Dust | Writing and musical style
One Direction – "What Makes You Beautiful"
2012 MTV Video Music Awards | Best New Artist
Courtney Love, singer for Hole and Cobain's widow, alludes both to this song and her husband's suicide note in the song "Reasons To Be Beautiful" from the album "Celebrity Skin". In "Reasons To Be Beautiful," she changes the verse to "It's better to rise than fade away." Def Leppard begins their song "Rock of Ages" with the lines "I got something to say / It's better to burn out than fade away"; the same lines were used in the movie "Highlander" by The Kurgan and used in the Queen song "Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" on their "A Kind Of Magic" album.
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) | Quotations
The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave "What Makes You Beautiful" four out of five stars, praising its catchy melody and summarising it as "adorable, completely innocent and bound to cause a stir amongst your mates". Zachary Houle of "PopMatters" called the song a "nice get-up-and-go dance number." Ailbhe Malone of "NME" commended the song's appeal to the teenage audience and its chord progression for being "simple enough to be played on an acoustic guitar at a house party." "Newsround" called it "fun, upbeat and incredibly catchy." AllMusic's Matthew Chisling called it an "effervescent and fresh tween love song", and chose it as one of the best tracks on "Up All Night".
What Makes You Beautiful | Critical reception
One Direction – "What Makes You Beautiful"
2012 MTV Video Music Awards | Best Pop Video
The song has been met with acclaim, with critics describing it as "beautiful" and praising its structure. It was accompanied with a music video directed by animator Orfeo.
You're Too Precious | Introduction
may not be a typical Girls Aloud pop-dance banger, but trust us when we say it's still amazing." A "NME" critic said the track "ain't bad", concluded that it occupies "a similar lyrical space to Sugababes' 'Unpretty' rewrite 'Ugly', and a similar space in the canon to "Too Much" by the Spice Girls." However, Douglas Wolk of Pitchfork Media stated the song, "just drag the album ["Ten"] down... in particular, belongs on the same icky-valentine shelf as James Blunt's "You're Beautiful". Jon O'Brien of omg! called the song "an overly-slushy love song which could quite easily have been a reject from Cheryl Cole's last album." Lucas Villa of Examiner described the song as "about feeling pretty in the presence of a loved one", and yet described the song as "awkwardly reminiscent of the "Mean Girls" line: “I don't hate you because you're fat.
Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me | Critical response
"We Are Beautiful" is a 2014 single by Panzer Flower, an electric/pop trio made up of Patrice Duthoo, Raphaël Glatz and Jean-Louis Palumbo. The song features vocals from Hubert Tubbs and was released by BIP Records and Happy Music.
We Are Beautiful | Introduction
The band created a unique blend of rock, jazz, folk, classical, and world-beat styles during its first seven years.
It's a Beautiful Day | Introduction
Beautiful as You is the fourth single from The Whitlams sixth album, Little Cloud, although this is the first CD single from the album. It was released on February 20, 2007. On the ARIA singles charts it peaked at #40. The version of the song included on the single is a re-recorded version and is faster with more acoustic guitar. On the iTunes EP two bonus tracks were also included, two demos from 1992: "Friends" and "Wastin' Time".
Beautiful as You | Introduction
Information taken from Allmusic.
It's a Beautiful Thing (album) | Personnel
She still looked beautiful but it wasn’t the same beauty that I saw when she was liberated, showing who she really was. When I shot the first scene with no hair and makeup on in front of an HD camera in my face, flashed with bright lights, everyone was watching. I thought, "Oh my god, I bet they’re all looking at my blemishes, thinking that I should cover them up, or that I should put some volume in my hair." But it also felt really cool to be on camera with zero on, like literally nothing on. And then when it got to the full hair and makeup, I actually felt gross.
Try (Colbie Caillat song) | Official video
"Beautiful" is a song by South Korean boy band Wanna One. The song serves as the lead single of their re-issue album, "1-1=0 (Nothing Without You)".
Beautiful (Wanna One song) | Introduction
In an interview with "Rolling Stone", Spears revealed that her idea initially was to make an album that was "fresh-sounding [...] for the clubs or something that you play in your car when you're going out at night that gets you excited, but I wanted it to sound different from everything else out right now." "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" is a party song with a heavy club beat. The elements used on the song's background were compared to similar used on songs by The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga, while its bass line was said to be "a cousin of the ground" for the Eurythmics' 1983 single "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
(Drop Dead) Beautiful | Composition
The song was subsequently added to the band's 1979 album "Sometimes You Win".
When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman | Introduction
In the music video for "Beautiful You" it shows all the members in a house in other rooms like the bathroom or sitting near the stairs. There is other scenes of them dancing.
Beautiful You / Sennen Koi Uta | "Beautiful You"
They worked on the idea of "beautiful pain", which led to a song of "optimism, anxiousness and longing, but also an undertone of sadness". House music producer Chris Lake gave him production tips on "how to do a few things I had forgotten."
Not All the Beautiful Things | Singles
"Oh Yes! You're Beautiful" is a song by English glam rock singer Gary Glitter, written by Glitter with Mike Leander and produced by Mike Leander. It was released as a standalone single in the UK in 1974, and peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single features the non-album track, "Thank You, Baby, For Myself" as its B-side, which was exclusive to the single.
Oh Yes! You're Beautiful | Introduction
The music of the song was written by her musical collaborator Tim Wellard, who first worked with Hamasaki on the song "Brillante" from her extended play "Five" (2011), and also wrote the songs "Party Queen", "The Next Love" and "Eyes, Smoke, Magic" for "Party Queen". Fuji Television director Hiroki Wakamatsu commissioned Hamasaki for the drama's theme song, asking her to write a grown-up song. Hamasaki wrote the song's lyrics after reading the drama's script.
How Beautiful You Are (Ayumi Hamasaki song) | Writing and production
It doesn't sound exactly the same. It's in that same area stylistically in sound and vision terms. We wanted to follow through with that falsetto vibe, but we wanted to make it a bit edgier, a bit ballsier and with a bit more lyrical depth." "You're Beautiful" debuted at number 14 on the ARIA Singles Chart on 10 March 2014.
You're Beautiful (Nathaniel Willemse song) | Background
"Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me" is a song recorded by British girl group Girls Aloud from their second compilation album, "Ten" (2012) and their final single release. It was written by Rachel Moulden and produced by Jim Eliot. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, who thought that ballads were not the group's best efforts. Upon the release of "Ten", it charted at number 97 on the UK Singles Chart. The accompanying music video was directed by Paul Caslin, and consists mostly of beauty shots from each member. The song was performed on a few programmes, such as "Children in Need 2012" and "Top of the Pops".
Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me | Introduction