I Feel Pretty / Unpretty - Cover of 'West Side Story' and TLC

About this song

The song is a mash-up of "I Feel Pretty" from the 1957 musical West Side Story and "Unpretty," a 1999 hit by the American R&B/pop trio TLC. It appears in the eighteenth episode of season two of the TV show Glee, titled Born This Way.

What it's about

In the episode, Rachel Berry, who is considering a nose job, sings it with Quinn Fabray while they take pictures, as Rachel wants to see how she would look with Quinn's nose.

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Fun facts

• It's actually a cover of “I Feel Pretty by Carol Lawrence, Carmen Gutierrez, Marilyn Cooper & Elizabeth Taylor (Broadway)”.
• Written by T-Boz, Dallas Austin, Michael Cirincione, Corey Glover, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
• Produced by Peer Åström, Ryan Murphy and Adam Anders.