Music Mystery: What Makes You Beautiful
On Sept. 11, 2011, One Direction released “What Makes You Beautiful” as a single. Featuring catchy lyrics and the good feeling of a modern day Beach Boys song, “What Makes You Beautiful” reached #4 in the U.S. according to achart.us and leaves the listener with a conundrum.
The song is clearly about a natural beauty who doesn’t know that she is beautiful. However, she is beautiful because she doesn’t know that she is beautiful. If the song tells her she is beautiful, thus revealing to her the truth, does she become ugly because now she knows that she is beautiful? It is a vicious circle. Beyond that, Is One Direction responsible for making her ugly because they told her that she is beautiful? Maybe this is one of those ideas that someone can tell you that you are beautiful and you don’t believe it, but then the lyrics should be “you don’t believe you’re beautiful and that’s what makes you beautiful.” “What Makes You Beautiful” was featured on One Direction’s Up All Night released March 13, 2012. It can also be heard in the surprisingly good, at least as far as I remember, documentary/concert film This Is Us. |
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