lyric analysis practice

Mama said, you're a pretty girl
What's in your head it doesn't matter
Brush your hair, fix your teeth
What you wear is all that matters

Just another stage
Pageant the pain away
This time I'm gonna take the crown
Without falling down, down

Pretty hurts
Shine the light on whatever's worse
Perfection is the disease of a nation
Pretty hurts
Shine the light on whatever's worse
Tryna fix something
But you can't fix what you can't see
It's the soul that needs the surgery

Blonder hair, flat chest

TV says bigger is better

South beach, sugar free

Vogue says

Thinner is better 

these are just some of the lyrics from beyonces 2014 song called 'pretty hurts' Beyoncé starts her self-titled fifth album with an assault on the pressures that women face to attain physical perfection. Harvey Keitel made an appearance in the video as an MC at a beauty pageant. The Melina Matsoukas-directed clip is a graphic depiction of the stresses suffered by models and beauty queens and concludes with home footage of a pre-teen Beyoncé accepting a singing award after a presenter mispronounces her name. The singer plays a beauty pageant contestant whose name "Miss Third Ward," is a reference to the Houston neighborhood where she grew up.