| Tim Minchin – Beauty Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the meaning is found in the commentary on contemporary songs. It's about how they are lazy, lack depth and just sing about beauty and other cliché, run of the mill sort of concepts. But at the same time he is "tempted" by it. Tim first tried to become a successful singer not comedian, and he believes if he were to sing about such superficial matters he could become successful, but he doesn't want to stoop to that. However, now being a comedian, he cannot sing about beauty even if he wanted to. I went to see this show at the start of last year in Brisbane, Australia and before he sang it he says "Only musical comedians would relate to this song", indicating that it is a common belief among such artists. When an audience comes to one of his gigs they don't want beauty, they want "satire and rage" and he almosts longs to sing about beauty. And despite being easy for cheap, shallow artists, it's hard for him to do it. |
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