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What Makes You Beautiful
One Direction
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- Album
- Up All Night
- Released
- 2012
- Genres
- Length
- 3:20
- Tempo
- 125 BPM
- Label
- Syco Music UK
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About this song
"What Makes You Beautiful" is One Direction's debut single, taken from their first album Up All Night. A music video was released on August 19, 2011, almost a month before the single came out. The song was very successful, topping the charts in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and Mexico, and reaching the top ten in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the US.
What it's about
The song is about a boy trying to lift his partner's self-esteem by declaring his love for them. Savan Kotecha, who helped write it, said it was written for his wife.
Fun facts
- Samples “Summer Nights by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John”.
- Sampled in 22 other songs, like “Bar Mitzvah by Nissim Ourfali”.
- Covered 29 times, including “What Makes You Beautiful by KIDZ BOP Kids”.
- Written by Rami, Carl Falk and Savan Kotecha.
- Produced by Rami and Carl Falk.