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City life just leaves me weak All this madness on the street Need to get away today Live my life a different way Is it only fantasy to dream about a perfect me? I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around Buy the latest magazine And aspire to the dream Perfect home and perfect kids Not a life lived on the skids Is it only fantasy or could it be reality? I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around Now I can see myself Without a care in the world It's a sun shining, money-spending Green and healthy world Is it only fantasy or could it be reality? I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around I wanna live like beautiful people Give like beautiful people With like beautiful people around |
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The Spector-inflected ballad ''Beautiful People'' is the perfect lullaby for the Blair Waldorf generation. Entertainment Weekly
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Beautiful People, a riot of '60s proportions that calls to mind Dusty Springfield and even features a harmonica, gently mocks the suburban dream in words which are as identifiably Neil Tennant's as his dental records: "Is it just a fantasy / To dream about a perfect me?" musicOMH
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Owen Pallett gets the strings going full tilt on Beautiful People and Neil dreams of a life far away as a wonderful Mamas and Papas influenced California sound permeates the song. It's all about aspiration, as all good pop songs usually are, and Marr even throws in a very Midnight Cowboy style harmonica as counterpoint. It's a lovely, summery, shimmery big slab of gorgeous pop. Smashing string and brass flourish at the end. Cathode Ray Tube
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The swishly attractive Beautiful People certainly has a barbed tongue as it professes love for all that is shallow and glossy in the modern world. But the glistening 60s strings, à la former Pets partner the late Dusty Springfield, make it too seductive to be sure. The Mirror
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This has a harmonica on it and is a bit of an ill-advised exploration of a sort of 'sixties sound' - it's about wanting to be a part of an exciting scene. "I wanna live like beautful people, give like beautiful people, with my beautiful people around," and so on. It would make a good b-side, or 'iTunes bonus track bundle song' or whatever we're supposed to call them in 2009. Popjustice
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One of the characteristics of Yes is the collaborations throughout. Johnny Marr's there with his very distinctive guitar sound and Owen Pallett who provided the strings for The Last Shadow Puppets' The Age Of The Understatement. His contribution to "Beautiful People" is wonderfully evocative as it conjures up a lot of 60s imagery. (...)
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