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"Beautiful Now" is a song by Russian-born German musician Zedd from his second studio album, True Colors (2015), featuring vocals from American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion. It was written by Zedd, Bellion, Antonina Armato, David Jost, Tim James and Desmond Child. The song was released on May 13, 2015, as the album's second single. The song was commercially successful and has been featured on a number of worldwide music charts.

"Beautiful Now"
Single by Zedd featuring Jon Bellion
from the album True Colors
Released	May 13, 2015 (May 13, 2015)
Recorded	2014
Genre	Progressive house
Length	3:38
Label	Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Zedd Jon Bellion Antonina Armato David Jost Tim James Desmond Child
Producer(s)	Zedd
Zedd singles chronology
"I Want You to Know" (2015) "Beautiful Now" (2015) "Papercut" (2015)
Jon Bellion singles chronology
"Woke the Fuck Up" (2015) "Beautiful Now" (2015) "All Time Low" (2016)
Music video
"Beautiful Now" on YouTube

Background

On May 8, 2015, as part of his True Colors promotional campaign, Zedd premiered "Beautiful Now" at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois. Five days later, he announced that he would release the song onto iTunes at 9:00 PM PST.[1] A few hours prior to its release, he tweeted the lyrics from the song's beat break: "BAH BAH BAH BABABAH BAH BAH BABABAH BAH BAH BAH BABABAH BABABABA".[2] The official audio for the song was uploaded to Zedd's YouTube channel at that same time.[3]

Composition

"Beautiful Now" is a progressive house song with influences of dance-pop written in the key of D major. It runs at 128 BPM.[4]

Music video

The music video for "Beautiful Now", directed by Jonathan Desbiens, was released on June 11, 2015.

Synopsis

The video intertwines five different stories together. The first is of a woman who supposedly drowned her female lover in a pool; the second involves an elderly Central American man who is journeying on an unsuccessful mountain climbing attempt; the third involves the son of a man whose home is invaded by armed robbers; the fourth involves Zedd portraying a liquor store robber who becomes hostile with the management by threatening him with a knife; and the fifth depicts a distraught girl laying down on a railroad. As the song progresses, the video intercuts to scenes of family happiness, good times with friends, dancing and rejoicing before concluding the five stories. The first woman's lover is pulled from the water before drowning, and the ex realizes the gravity of the situation; the old man attempts to climb the mountain and falls, but survives, without reaching the summit; the armed robbery victim's son confronts the hostiles at gunpoint and subdues them; Zedd's character reflects over what sunk him to his current point in life and seems to change his ways; the suicidal girl is missed by the train and reflects on her life and why she chose such an extreme act. All five people in the stories see themselves in a reflection in various surfaces as their stories are closed and they all resolve to be better people.[5]

Reception

As of November 1, 2022, the video has over 207 million views and over 1.9 million likes on Zedd's YouTube channel.[6]

Track listing

• CD single and digital download[7]

1. "Beautiful Now" (featuring Jon Bellion) – 3:38

• Digital download (Remixes EP)[8]

1. "Beautiful Now" (Zonderling Remix) – 3:55
2. "Beautiful Now" (KDrew Remix) – 4:00
3. "Beautiful Now" (Dirty South Remix) – 3:19
4. "Beautiful Now" (Charlie Darker Remix) – 4:15

• Digital download (Dirty South Remix) (iTunes)[9]

1. "Beautiful Now" (featuring Jon Bellion) [Dirty South Remix] – 3:18

• Digital download (Dirty South Remix) (Spotify)[10]

1. "Beautiful Now" (featuring Jon Bellion) [Dirty South Remix] – 2:53

Grey remix

On July 29, 2015, Los Angeles-based duo Grey released their remix of "Beautiful Now" on SoundCloud as a free download. The remix is known for its significant deviation in sound from the original, using a vocoder to give Bellion's vocals a different melody and robotic distortion, and accompanying them with a darker and melodically distinct background inspired by Egyptian music. The remix quickly began receiving coverage across electronic music websites and communities, and was acclaimed for its uniqueness and originality. It also became notable for only being Grey's first release despite its professionality, leading to speculation that the alias belonged to an experienced group of producers now going anonymous.[11] The alias belongs to brothers Kyle and Michael Trewartha, the former of whom previously operated under the alias Singularity.

Eventually, the remix came to the attention of Zedd, who liked and reposted the remix to his official SoundCloud page, and later released the track for purchase on iTunes on September 11, 2015.[12] Zedd has since continued to actively support Grey, playing their remix of Skrillex and Diplo's "Where Are Ü Now" featuring Justin Bieber at his True Colors Tour. He also went on to call Grey "hands down the best electronic music act right now" on Twitter.[13] Grey has since officially remixed two other songs from True Colors; "Papercut" and "True Colors", and toured with Zedd in 2017 as part of his Echo Tour.

Charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)[29]	Gold	25,000
Japan (RIAJ)[30]	Gold	100,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[31]	Platinum	20,000
United States (RIAA)[32]	Platinum	1,000,000
Streaming
Japan (RIAJ)[33]	Silver	30,000,000
* Sales figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

See also

• List of number-one dance singles of 2015 (U.S.)

References

На других языках

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[de] Beautiful Now

Beautiful Now (engl. „Jetzt wunderschön“) ist ein Lied des deutsch-russischen DJs Zedd, in Kooperation mit dem US-amerikanischen Popsänger Jon Bellion. Das Stück ist die dritte Singleauskopplung aus seinem zweiten Studioalbum True Colors.

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- [en] Beautiful Now

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