Listen to this when
Pretty Hurts
for anyone exhausted from trying to look perfect 🪞
Who it's for
Beyoncé uses the image of a beauty pageant to show how society's beauty standards wound people, especially women.
Exhausted, self-critical→Gentler toward yourself
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Pretty Hurts" is a song from Beyoncé's self-titled 2013 album, co-written by Sia, Joshua "Ammo" Coleman and Beyoncé. The song criticizes society's standards of female beauty and the pressure on women to meet them, including the harm these standards can do to body image and health.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Eating disorders and body image.
Age: Suggested 13+
Men's vows are women's traitors!William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4
