Christina Aguilera is an American singer-songwriter who first cast onto television when appearing on the show Star Search in 1990.
"Beautiful" is a song written and produced by Linda Perry and is taken off Christina Aguilera's second album, Stripped (2002).
It tells the story of a girl who tries to deal with the abuse and the hurtful comments that get said to her causing her to feel insecure and unconfident. The song is about how she overcomes it and doesn't let the comment affect her.
The video is both performance and narrative based. The different stories acted out in the video mirror the lyrics and the issues faced of being different and needing to "fit in". Throughout the video we see the characters embracing their unique-ness and continuing on the way theywant despite what others may think.
The video starts off with an extreme close up of Christina's face where she whispers "Don't look at me", which is the message that echoes through about how the characters in the video feel. The main focus then turns to them and the lighting is particularly effective when we first see them as they are all positioned in dark rooms with a spotlight shining on them making them the centre of attention. This is shown using two screengrabs below.
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