ALESSIA CARA - SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL

SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL

ALESSIA CARA

SONGWRITERS: ALESSIA CARACCIOLO; WARREN FELDER; ANDREW WANSIL; COLERIDGE TILLMAN & JUSTIN FRANKS

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: KNOW-IT-ALL

LABEL: DEF JAM RECORDING

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 2016

 

         Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara (/əˈlɛsiəˈkɑːrə/), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After producing acoustic covers, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single the following year. "Here" peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and was a sleeper hit in the United States, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

          Cara's debut studio album, Know-It-All (2015), peaked at number 8 on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number 9 on the Billboard 200. The album's third single, "Scars to Your Beautiful", peaked number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016. In 2017, Cara collaborated with DJ and producer Zedd to create the single "Stay", and with rapper Logic to feature in his song "1-800-273-8255". Cara has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, including a win for Best New Artist in 2018. She was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2019 Latin Grammys for her collaboration with Juanes on "Querer Mejor". Her second studio album, The Pains of Growing (2018), saw the moderate commercial success of the singles "Growing Pains" and "Trust My Lonely".

           "Scars to Your Beautiful" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara. Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group serviced it to contemporary hit radio on July 26, 2016, as the third single from her debut studio album Know-It-All (2015). The song was written by Alessia Caracciolo, Warren Felder, Andrew Wansel, Coleridge Tillman and Justin Franks, and produced by Pop & Oak and the latter two.

          It peaked at number eight and thus became Alessia Cara's second top-ten single on US Billboard Hot 100. 

 

She just wants to be beautiful

She goes unnoticed

She knows no limits

She craves attention

She praises an image

She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor

 

Oh, she don't see the light that's shining

Deeper than the eyes can find it

Maybe we have made her blind

So, she tries to cover up her pain

And cut her woes away

'Cause covergirls don't cry

After their face is made, but

 

There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark

You should know you're beautiful just the way you are

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful

 

She has dreams to be an envy

So she's starving

You know, covergirls eat nothing

She says: Beauty is pain and there's beauty in everything

What's a little bit of hunger?

I can go a little while longer

She fades away

 

She don't see her perfect

She don't understand she's worth it

Or that beauty goes deeper than the surface, oh, oh, oh, oh

So to all the girls that's hurting, let me be your mirror

Help you see a little bit clearer

The light that shines within

 

There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark

You should know you're beautiful just the way you are

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful

 

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful

 

No better you than the you that you are

(No better you than the you that you are)

No better life than the life we're living

(No better life than the life we're living)

No better time for your shine, you're a star

(No better time for your shine, you're a star)

Oh, you're beautiful

Oh, you're beautiful

 

There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark

You should know you're beautiful just the way you are

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful

 

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful

We're stars and we're beautiful.