Additionally, the song's lyrics deal with the consequences of society's high standards of beauty, and in "Pretty Hurts" eating disorders are depicted as one of the subjected results.
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Pretty Hurts completed the song with American musician Ammo on the same day she recorded French DJ David Guetta's "Titanium" in 2011.
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Pretty Hurts saw the track's theme as representation of "finding that thing in the world that makes you truly happy, " and felt that the song was in line with the album's theme of "finding beauty in imperfections".
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Beyonce's vocal performance in "Pretty Hurts" was likened by music critics to that of her 2008 single, "Halo".
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Lyrics of "Pretty Hurts" are related to third-wave feminism and self-empowerment.
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Critics observed that "Pretty Hurts" promoted its listener's ambition for fame and personal growth.
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Marc Hogan of Spin opined that "Pretty Hurts" resembled a speech accompanied by music and felt that it served as a political statement addressed to the beauty industry.
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McCall went on to opine that "Pretty Hurts" served a response to the criticism Beyonce received for her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during American president Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013.
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The placement of "Pretty Hurts" was criticized by AbsolutePunk writer Ryan Dennehy, who went on to call the song "too safe at this point in her [Beyonce's] career".
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Philip Cosores of Paste commented, "'Pretty Hurts' opens the album with didactic rhetoric without the grace of subtlety, with its repeated conclusion that the 'soul needs surgery, ' hardly a poetic payoff that listeners deserve".
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At the 2014 Soul Train Music Awards, "Pretty Hurts" was nominated for The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award.
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Elsewhere, "Pretty Hurts" attained peaks of number 68 in Switzerland, number 83 in Germany, and number 87 in the Netherlands.
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Music video for "Pretty Hurts" was released on December 13,2013, to iTunes Stores, as part of the release of Beyonce.
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Pretty Hurts's wardrobe included a 1920s rabbit ear headpiece as a means of innocence for her character in the clip.
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Pretty Hurts is shown backstage, smearing her make-up, and vomiting in the bathroom.
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Pretty Hurts is then shown in another segment, being spray tanned in a bikini.
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An early instrumental of "Pretty Hurts" was used for Gucci's Chime for Change campaign in 2013, before the song's official release.
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