Beauty Lyrics

Lyric discussion by stevether 

Cover art for Beauty lyrics by Tim Minchin

I think beauty is referring to pop songs and mainstream, mass consumption artists. She's "promiscuous" in that any "lazy artist" can become famous in our "beauty drowned sucker" society. This plays on how all pop songs seem to sound the same, use the same four cords, are written by the same people, etc. Then just dressed up with a pretty person and but on big shows. A stark contrast to a loan man on stage with a piano.

Tim could easily write a pop song, find fame and fortune, but he refuses. "She will toy with your defenseless heart and leave you" refers to cycle of celebs being chewed and spit out and replaced.

"But she comes so hard to me" refers to his constant internal battle to resist selling out. It's tempting and he struggles to stay on his "chosen mission" of "satire and rage"

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