"You're Beautiful" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter

Nathaniel Willemse Nate Gilbertson (born 14 July 1985), often known simply as Nathaniel, is a South African-born Australian singer and songwriter most notable for finishing sixth on the fourth season of '' The X Factor Australia''. In 2013, he signed a recording c ...

. It was released on 28 February 2014 as the second single from his debut studio album '' Yours''. Two remixes of the song were released on 13 June 2014.

Background

In February 2014, Willemse announced his new single would be titled "You're Beautiful" and would be the follow-up to the double platinum-selling single "

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". Speaking to Auspop in March, Willemse said, "We wanted to make sure that it was in the same realm as 'You', but have points of difference. We looked at

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and almost all of Lorde's songs are identical or close to being the same type of sound. So we didn't want to sway too much". He continued, "I've had feedback from friends and other people who've said it sounds exactly the same as 'You'. It doesn't sound exactly the same. It's in that same area stylistically in sound and vision terms. We wanted to follow through with that

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vibe, but we wanted to make it a bit edgier, a bit ballsier and with a bit more lyrical depth." "You're Beautiful" debuted at number 14 on the

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on 10 March 2014.

Music video

The official video clip was released on 28 February 2014 via Willemse's

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account.

Track listing

*Digital download # "You're Beautiful" – 2:59 *Digital download # "You're Beautiful" (Matt Watkins Remix) – 5:34 *Digital download # "You're Beautiful" (A-Tonez Remix)– 3:42

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end chart

References

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