2011Released
3:27

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Interesting facts and trivia about Beautiful Girl. By Songfacts®.

This song is about a frightened runaway the singer has befriended and wants to protect in a fatherly way. She goes from "doorway to doorway, corner to corner" trying to survive.

The song's lyricist, Andrew Farriss, was inspired to write it by the birth of his newly born baby daughter. In an interview with Debbie Kruger, the INXS keyboardist explained: "I just had the birth of my first daughter, Grace, and I was very much realizing that life had changed for me dramatically because I became a parent and I'd just gone that next step in my life. I was writing lyrics like 'Baby Don't Cry' and 'Beautiful Girl' and lyrics just about how wonderful it is to have something else in your life besides yourself to worry about and think about. So I began to have some interesting conversations with Michael (Hutchence), where he was still interested in writing fairly dark introspective lyrics, and I was trying to write very positive happy songs at a point in my life."

This song was used for an American TV awareness campaign about the effects of anorexia.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Beautiful Girl.
BKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
121BPM

Album

The album Beautiful Girl is released on.
INXS RemasteredINXS
2011Compilation

Released By

The record label that has released Beautiful Girl.
Petrol Records
© 2011 Petrol Records Pty Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
This Compilation ℗ 2011 Petrol Records Pty Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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