How Do Alessia Respond To Ears To Your Beautiful

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#1 Hi! The song I will be talking about today is “Scars To Your Beautiful” by Alessia [Aless-sia] Cara and hopefully, you will learn something valuable from this presentation.

#2 Alessia Cara is a twenty-year-old R&B Canadian singer and songwriter from Brampton, Ontario. She empowers young women and men as well today about self-acceptance and the obstacles that she has experienced in her youth, from the many songs she writes about. Growing up, Alessia enjoyed writing poetry and theater as a child. She began her music career on YouTube at the age of thirteen, by uploading song covers of herself and because of that, she got signed to a record deal.

#3 Scars to Your Beautiful is one of Alessia’s many empowering songs from her Know-It-All album, which was released in November of 2015. She received a lot of positive feedback from many around the world. Alessia collaborated with Coleridge Tillman and Pop and Oak to write this song and to produce her Know-It-All Album.

#4 The reason behind why Alessia wrote “Scars
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One reference from this song is “She don't see her perfect…She don't understand she’s worth it… Or that beauty goes deeper than the surface” the message that is being portrayed is that society has driven the girl away from seeing her true beauty because she’s so focused on trying to fit in society’s image of beauty. The world has created an unrealistic image and has blinded us from what real beauty is. Physical appearance is not the only thing that makes a person beautiful and charming. Arguably, it is a person’s personality, confidence, and actions that bring out a glow of beauty that outer beauty cannot compete with. Beauty comes in an infinite amount of forms and is not only categorized by makeup, skin color, looks or the shape and size of your body. We all need to change and acknowledge how we view beauty and

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