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“Beautiful Boy” is a slow song about the jealousy a woman feels towards handsome men and the ease with which they move through life compared to the way she feels restricted by her femininity.
In a Rolling Stone interview, lead singer Abigail Morris described the story behind the song and her vision for it:
“It’s about a friend of mine, who is a very beautiful boy, and I remember I was talking to him once, and he was describing a holiday he had gone on on his own, where he just went off, hitchhiking around Spain. He lost his phone, had nothing — he was just relying on the kindness of strangers. Wherever he went, everyone adored him and took him in and gave him things, and it just made me think, ‘What’s it like to go around life being an exquisite man?‘
When you’re a beautiful woman, it’s a different thing that has a different kind of privilege, and also comes with its own horrors,” Morris adds. “Being a normal man has a different set of privileges, but what is it like to be not only a man, but a man that’s so beautiful no one would ever say no to you? He came to one of our gigs once, stole a bottle of rum from the venue, got caught, but then got let off because, and I quote, ‘What a handsome thief!’“
There is a live performance of the song from Latitude Festival 2023.
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