Music Review: Scars To Your Beautiful (2016)

SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL (2016)


Scars to your beautiful were released on 26 July 2016. The duration of this song is 3 minutes and 50 seconds. The singer of this song is Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Caracciolo also known as Alessia Cara. She was born on 11 July 1996 in Mississauga, Ontario. She began posting covers of songs on YouTube at age 13. After uploading acoustic covers of songs such as "Love Yourself" and "Sweater Weather" online, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single, "Here" Alessia Cara is a pop, R&B, alternative R&B, indie pop, and soul singer. Cara was the songwriter of this song along with Oak Felder Turkish-born American songwriter and producer, Sebastian Tillman American singer-songwriter and producer, Andrew Wansel, and Justin Franks. 


This song reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary airplay chart. Accordingly to Billboard magazine, it was the first ever song by an artist whose initials are AC to lead the AC chart since the survey's debut in July 1961. Scars To Your Beautiful play a part in an episode of the television show The Bold Type and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. This track was used in the international trailer of A Wrinkle In Time furthermore as the background music for the introduction videos of Dirt Rally 2.0. In 2018, the song appeared in television commercials for ULTA Beauty.


The song was inspired by a traumatic experience in Cara's early teenage years when she started losing her hair in chunks in the shower. In Glamour Magazine, she wrote "It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone. I struggled with that a lot, especially going into high school. You have so many pressures, what people are going to think of you, and I was going into it losing all my hair. I had, like, nothing left. It was remaining patches of missing hair that people would point out because people are mean in high school." Cara had to learn to accept her hair after the experience. She wrote Scars to your beautiful because she wants the women out there who have struggled with feeling not good enough Cara like to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.


 The lyrics describe a girl who doesn't love herself and wants to look precisely like the girl she sees online. The Lyrica craves attention. She praises an image she prays to be sculpted by the sculptor. A common issue in today's society is adolescents struggling with body confidence. This song can be correlated to this issue since the song describes the struggle of a female who wants to fit into a societal standard. From my point of view, I’m very fond of it as the lyrics were attached to me. I wish to say the song has a soft spot for me.

 

In summary, Scars To Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara is basically about you as a person accepting your scars because they make you unique and beautiful in your way. It's about having confidence and not adjusting to the standards of society on how one should be and look. I would recommend this song to those who struggle with self-confidence. 

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