"Beautiful Now" is a song by Zedd featuring Jon Bellion, released as the second single from Zedd's second studio album, True Colors (2015). It was co-written with David Jost, Desmond Child, and, duo Rock Mafia (Antonina Armato, Tim James), the latter of which also produced the song with Zedd. The accompanying music video premiered June 11, directed by Jodeb.
Background
In Genius lyrics commentary, Zedd said about the inspiration, "I wasn't a very confident kid. I became more confident as I grew older. There is a point in everyone's life when they think they might not be beautiful or are afraid of other people judging them. Everybody has their own sense of what is beautiful and what somebody should look like—what they like, or what they dislike. I am into symmetry. That is my definition of beauty. Not just in people, I also like songs with symmetry."[1]
They performed the song at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live on May 21, 2015.
Credits and personnel
Song
- Antonina Armato – writer
- Arkadi Zaslavski – guitar
- David Jost – writer
- Desmond Child – writer
- Jesse Taub – engineer
- Jon Bellion – vocals, writer
- Mike Marsh – mastering engineer
- Ryan Shanahan – engineer
- Rock Mafia – producer
- Tim James – writer
- Zedd – writer, producer, mixing engineer
Video
Crew
- Geoff McLean – executive producer
- Jamee Ranta – producer
- Jodeb – director, editor, colorist
- Kristof Brandl – director of photography
- Nicholas Kramer – 1st AC
- Vision Film Co – production company
Guatemala Team
- Bob Trimper – production assistant
- Eeko – production assistant/2nd AC
- Gg – fixer/1st AD
- Julio Rolando Menchu – volcano expedition leader
- Louisa Aguilar – craft services
- The Bigger Picture Pictures – production company
Prague Team
- Lida Ortungova – executive producer
- Michal 'Red' Cerveny – production manager
- Petr 'Olmic' Olma – 1st AD
- Josef Hanukik – location manager
- Patrik Riegl – art director
- Veronika Vandasova – makeup
- Tereza Dvorakova, Kacena Kovarikova – styling
Cast
- Katerina Vintrova – Emmaline, murderer girl (CZ)
- Luis Eduardo Escobedo Gowans – Blair, mountain man (GT)
- Luiiziitoo Saantay – Hernian, young man (GT)
- Anton Zaslavski – Isaac, young thug (CZ)
- Tereza Sindelarova – Audrey, "suicidal" girl (CZ)
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I see what you're wearing, there's nothing beneath it
Forgive me for staring, forgive me for breathing
We might not know why, we might not know how
But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now
[Pre-Chorus]
We're beautiful now
We're beautiful now
[Chorus]
We might not know why, we might not know how
But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now
We'll light up the sky, we'll open the clouds
'Cause baby, tonight, we're beautiful now
We're beautiful
We're beautiful
We're beautiful
[Verse 2]
Wherever it's going, I'm gonna chase it
What's left of this moment, I'm not gonna waste it
Stranded together, our worlds have collided
This won't be forever, so why try to fight it?
[Pre-Chorus]
We're beautiful now
We're beautiful now
[Chorus]
We might not know why, we might not know how
But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now
We'll light up the sky, we'll open the clouds
'Cause baby, tonight, we're beautiful now
We're beautiful
(We're beautiful)
We're beautiful
[Bridge]
Let's live tonight like fireflies
And one by one light up the sky
We disappear and pass the crown
You're beautiful, you're beautiful
[Chorus]
We're beautiful now
We're beautiful now (Beautiful)
We're beautiful now
We're beautiful now
We're beautiful
We're beautiful, we're beautiful now
We're beautiful now, we're beautiful now
We're beautiful now, we're beautiful now
We're beautiful
References
- ↑ "Zedd - 'Beautiful Now'. Genius.
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