Christina Aguilera – Beautiful Lyrics

Christina Aguilera – Beautiful Lyrics

Beautiful Lyrics by Christina Aguilera

“Beautiful” was the second single off Stripped. The song received critical acclaim for its exploration of themes regarding self-acceptance, inner beauty and insecurities.

Aguilera commented that she put “her heart and her soul” into the track, which she felt represented the theme of Stripped

Upon its release, “Beautiful” received universal acclaim from music critics, who have ranked it among Aguilera’s strongest material. It won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was also nominated for Song of the Year at the 2004 ceremony.

“Beautiful” has been widely embraced as an anthem by the LGBT community for its message of self-empowerment and inner beauty. An accompanying music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, and earned Aguilera a GLAAD Media Award for its positive portrayal of gay and transgender people. In 2011, UK LGBT rights organization Stonewall named “Beautiful” the most empowering song of the previous decade for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. In 2009, Rolling Stone and VH1 listed it as one of the best songs of the 2000s (decade). The song is widely recognized as one of Aguilera’s signature songs and has been covered on numerous occasions and featured on several television shows.

Rolling Stone ranked “Beautiful” at number 52 on their list of the 100 best songs of the 2000s (decade), elaborating that it is “delivered with full-fathom force by the bottle-blond with the biggest voice”. Similarly, VH1 positioned the track at number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest songs of the past decade.

[Intro]
Don’t look at me
Mm, mm
Oh
Ooh, oh, mm

[Verse 1]
Every day is so wonderful
Then suddenly it’s hard to breathe
Now and then I get insecure from all the pain
I’m so ashamed

[Chorus]
I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can’t bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can’t bring me down, oh no
So don’t you bring me down today

[Verse 2]
To all your friends, you’re delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone
Is that the way it is?

[Chorus]
You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can’t bring you down, oh no
‘Cause you are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can’t bring you down, oh no
So don’t you bring me down today

[Bridge]
No matter what we do (No matter what we do)
No matter what we say (No matter what we say)
We’re the song inside the tune, yeah
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go (And everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
The sun will always, always shine
(And tomorrow, we might wake on the other side)

[Chorus]
‘Cause we are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won’t bring us down, no
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can’t bring us down, oh no
So don’t you bring me down today

[Outro]
Ooh, yeah, don’t you bring me down today, yeah, ooh
Ooh, don’t you bring me down
Ooh, today