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"Beautiful World"
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Single by Devo
from the album New Traditionalists
Released 1981
Format 7"
Genre

  • New wave

  • synthpop
Length 3:35
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)

  • Gerald Casale

  • Mark Mothersbaugh
Producer(s) Devo

Devo singles chronology





"Through Being Cool"
(1981)
 "Beautiful World"
(1981)
 "Working in the Coal Mine"
(1981)


"Beautiful World" is a song by the American new wave band Devo, written by Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh. It appears on their fourth studio album New Traditionalists.


Most of the songs on New Traditionalists are darker and more direct than on previous Devo albums. The exception to this is "Beautiful World," whose message seems optimistic at first but changes as the song progresses. This is made even clearer by the song's promotional video.




Contents






  • 1 Promotional music video


  • 2 Track listing


  • 3 Chart performance


    • 3.1 Other versions




  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Promotional music video[edit]


"Beautiful World" is considered by many fans and critics to be Devo's greatest music video, setting the tune to a series of connected images from film archives. The video features the character Booji Boy prominently, as he initially watches scenes of beautiful women, futuristic cars and other happy elements, which by the end of the song have been replaced by images of race riots, the Ku Klux Klan, World War I, famine in Africa, car crashes and nuclear explosions, which puts a much darker slant on the song's lyrics. The video was slightly censored for broadcasts on the ABC-TV music show Countdown. A small segment of archive footage depicting a woman on fire was considered unsuitable for the show's early evening timeslot—despite the fact that the 'flames' were animated, not real—and this censored version is still screened occasionally on the ABC's music video series rage, including a mid-1990s episode hosted by Devo.



Track listing[edit]



  1. "Beautiful World" – 3:32

  2. "Enough Said" – 3:25



Chart performance[edit]



















Chart
 Position

US Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100[1][2]
 102
Australia ARIA Top 100[3]
 14
New Zealand RIANZ Top 50[4]
 15


Other versions[edit]



  • It was covered by indie rock band Harvey Danger

  • It was covered by the synthpop band Information Society, with vocals by Gerald Casale of Devo.

  • It was covered by Rap/rock group Rage Against the Machine on their final studio album Renegades.



References[edit]





  1. ^ "allmusic ((( Devo > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Billboard. Retrieved 2008-06-22..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel. Bubbling Under Singles & Albums (1998): 64


  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 88. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.


  4. ^ "charts.org.nz - Discography Devo". © 2006-2010 Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2010.




External links[edit]



  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics










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