Beautiful Now

## Single by Zedd featuring Jon Bellion

"**Beautiful Now**" is a song by Zedd featuring Jon Bellion, released as the second single from Zedd's second studio album, *True Colors* (2015). It was co-written with David Jost, Desmond Child, and, duo Rock Mafia (Antonina Armato, Tim James), the latter of which also produced the song with Zedd. The accompanying music video premiered June 11, directed by Jodeb.

## Background

In *Genius* lyrics commentary, Zedd said about the inspiration, "I wasn't a very confident kid. I became more confident as I grew older. There is a point in everyone's life when they think they might not be beautiful or are afraid of other people judging them. Everybody has their own sense of what is beautiful and what somebody should look like—what they like, or what they dislike. I am into symmetry. That is my definition of beauty. Not just in people, I also like songs with symmetry."

They performed the song at '*Jimmy Kimmel Live* on May 21, 2015.

## Credits and personnel

### Song

* Antonina Armato – writer
* Arkadi Zaslavski – guitar
* David Jost – writer
* Desmond Child – writer
* Jesse Taub – engineer
* Jon Bellion – vocals, writer
* Mike Marsh – mastering engineer
* Ryan Shanahan – engineer
* Rock Mafia – producer
* Tim James – writer
* Zedd – writer, producer, mixing engineer

### Video

#### Crew

* Geoff McLean – executive producer
* Jamee Ranta – producer
* Jodeb – director, editor, colorist
* Kristof Brandl – director of photography
* Nicholas Kramer – 1st AC
* Vision Film Co – production company

##### Guatemala Team

* Bob Trimper – production assistant
* Eeko – production assistant/2nd AC
* Gg – fixer/1st AD
* Julio Rolando Menchu – volcano expedition leader
* Louisa Aguilar – craft services
* The Bigger Picture Pictures – production company

##### Prague Team

* Lida Ortungova – executive producer
* Michal 'Red' Cerveny – production manager
* Petr 'Olmic' Olma – 1st AD
* Josef Hanukik – location manager
* Patrik Riegl – art director
* Veronika Vandasova – makeup
* Tereza Dvorakova, Kacena Kovarikova – styling

#### Cast

* Katerina Vintrova – Emmaline, murderer girl (CZ)
* Luis Eduardo Escobedo Gowans – Blair, mountain man (GT)
* Luiiziitoo Saantay – Hernian, young man (GT)
* Anton Zaslavski – Isaac, young thug (CZ)
* Tereza Sindelarova – Audrey, "suicidal" girl (CZ)

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1]

I see what you're wearing, there's nothing beneath it

Forgive me for staring, forgive me for breathing

We might not know why, we might not know how

But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now

[Pre-Chorus]

We're beautiful now

We're beautiful now

[Chorus]

We might not know why, we might not know how

But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now

We'll light up the sky, we'll open the clouds

'Cause baby, tonight, we're beautiful now

We're beautiful

We're beautiful

We're beautiful

[Verse 2]

Wherever it's going, I'm gonna chase it

What's left of this moment, I'm not gonna waste it

Stranded together, our worlds have collided

This won't be forever, so why try to fight it?

[Pre-Chorus]

We're beautiful now

We're beautiful now

[Chorus]

We might not know why, we might not know how

But baby, tonight, we're beautiful now

We'll light up the sky, we'll open the clouds

'Cause baby, tonight, we're beautiful now

We're beautiful

(We're beautiful)

We're beautiful

[Bridge]

Let's live tonight like fireflies

And one by one light up the sky

We disappear and pass the crown

You're beautiful, you're beautiful

[Chorus]

We're beautiful now

We're beautiful now (Beautiful)

We're beautiful now

We're beautiful now

We're beautiful

We're beautiful, we're beautiful now

We're beautiful now, we're beautiful now

We're beautiful now, we're beautiful now

We're beautiful