"Beauty and a Beat" is an uptempo EDM and electropop song that lasts 3 minutes and 48 seconds. Guest vocals are provided by rapper Nicki Minaj. It also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at 47. After the release of the song's music video, it re-entered the Hot 100 at number 72 and peaked at 5. The song became the third official single from the album.įollowing the release of Believe, "Beauty and a Beat" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at 72 due to strong digital downloads. It is the only song from Believe that Bieber did not co-write. Lyrically, it speaks about Bieber wanting to take his love interest to a club, where they can "party like it's 3012". It was also produced by the latter two with a heavy drum machine and "rushing" synthesizers. It features Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj, who co-wrote it with Savan Kotecha, Max Martin and Zedd. The video already lost the record." Beauty and a Beat" is a song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber from his third studio album Believe (2012).
In doing so Justin surpassed the previous VEVO record held by One Direction's "Live While We 're Young," which claimed 8.24 million views within its first day. The video racked up a huge 10.6 million views in its first 24 hours of being online. Bieber wrote the video's storyline himself and co-directed the video itself with Jon Chu. It was then illegally uploaded by an anonymous blogger. It opens by stating that in October 2012, 3 hours of personal footage was stolen from Justin. The video premiered on Vevo on October 12, 2012. Minaj makes an appearance during her verse in the song standing in the water, rapping alongside Bieber. The video features Bieber at a party with most scenes taking place at a swimming pool at Raging Waters in San Dimas, California. But I was never really a huge fan of that song. And it was music that was popular at that time, as well. But I understood what it was at the time. I never really liked “Beauty and a Beat”. "Nicki was getting on another one of our records, and then we did 'Beauty and the Beat,' and she heard it, and she was like, 'I want to get on that.' And, actually, we were gonna put Usher on it at first, but then we heard Nicki's verse, and we were like, 'Damn.' " Trivia “ Scoote Braun told MTV News how the collaboration with Nicki Minaj came together. The A&R wanted Justin on it so Zedd sent the song to Max Martin and then he wrote the vocals to it. Zedd had Justin Bieber's A&R in the studio and showed this track he wrote.
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