MUSIC VIDEO PREVIEW
"Beautiful" is the seventeenth track on and the fourth single from American rapper Eminem's album Relapse. It was released on May 12 on iTunes available for digital downloads. "Beautiful" entered the UK Singles Chart on May 17, 2009 at #38. It has also been confirmed that Beautiful will be released on August 3, 2009 in the UK. Also in the U.S. it made a "Hot Shot Debut" at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is currently on the B-List of the BBC Radio 1 playlist.
The video was shot in Detroit and it was directed by Anthony Mandler. It premiered on July 2, 2009 on Yahoo! music.
The video opens with a captions stating that "in 1950, Michigan was 1 of 8 states in America that collectively produced 36% of the world's GNP" and that "Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city in the world". It then cuts to present-day images of the city, featuring Eminem walking through three abandoned structures from that era that symbolized the "Arsenal of Democracy" (Michigan Central Station, the former Packard plant, and Tiger Stadium, including demolition footage of the latter), joined by several people appropriate to that building (an older woman with a suitcase, several autoworkers holding their lunchboxes and tools, and a neighborhood youth baseball team respectively). Although the original song contains three verses, the music video only displays the first two.
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