Beneath Your Beautiful

Label

SYCO

Genre

Pop Soul

Media Type

45s

Composer(s)

Timothy McKenzie;Adele Emeli;Sandé;Mike Posner

Entered Chart

Jun 8, 2013

Peak Date

Aug 10, 2013

Released

18 October 2012

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

SYCO

This romantic ballad finds Labrinth duetting with "Heaven" songstress Emeli Sandé. Labrinth explained to The Sun: "Me and ("Cooler Than Me" singer) Mike Posner were working together and came up with this. Emeli came in later on. We decided to get her on the record because she's a great talent. I love her." The song also featured on the repackaged deluxe edition of Sandé's debut album Our Version Of events, which was released on October 8, 2012. After slipping out of the UK singles chart the previous week, the grammatically challenged "Beneath Your Beautiful" rebounded to #1 following a show-stealing performance by Emeli Sandé on the X Factor show. Labrinth's only previous #1 was as an unaccredited vocalist on Tinie Tempah's debut single "Pass Out." He also achieved a brace of #2 singles, Tempah second single "Frisky" on which he was credited as a featured artist and his own solo hit "Earthquake." Emeli Sande had already topped the chart as a featured artist on Professor Green's "Read All About It." The song was the last track to be lifted from Electronic Earth. "Usually when you're on your last single and you've gone to the end of your album, it's the first singles that explode," Labrinth commented to Digital Spy. "So to achieve a number one on the last single was quite sick." The song jumped into the higher reaches of the US iTunes sales chart following a stellar TV performance by Labrinth and Sandé on America's Got Talent. Asked by Billboard magazine why he picked Sandé as the female perspective on the track, Labrinth replied: "Emeli, I felt, had enough soul. And enough lyrical ability along with it to represent that area of the song." Sophie Muller (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lana Del Rey) directed the music video, which has Labrinth and Sandé performing the tune in front of a screen featuring photos of the two singers.

You tell all the boys no
Makes you feel good, yeah
I know you're out of my league
But that won't scare me away, oh, no

You've carried on so long
You couldn't stop if you tried it

You've built your wall so high
That no one could climb it
But I'm gonna try

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now, girl
Take it off now, girl
I wanna see inside
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?

You let all the girls go
Makes you feel good, don't it?
Behind your Broadway show
I heard a boy say, "Please, don't hurt me"

You've carried on so long
You couldn't stop if you tried it

You've built your wall so high
That no one could climb it
But I'm gonna try

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now, boy, take it off now, boy
I wanna see inside
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight

Oh-oh, tonight
See beneath, see beneath
I-I, tonight'
I-I

I'm gonna climb on top your ivory tower
I'll hold your hand and then we'll jump right out
We'll be falling, falling but that's okay
'Cause I'll be right here
I just wanna know

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now, girl (take it off now, boy)
Take it off now, girl (take it off now, boy)
'Cause I wanna see inside

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, tonight?
See beneath your beautiful, oh, tonight
We ain't perfect, we ain't perfect, no
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?