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}} "Unpretty" is a song by American recording group TLC. It was produced by Dallas Austin and co-written by Austin and TLC member Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins for the band's third studio album, ''FanMail'' (1999). Built on a poem of the same name written by Watkins, which dealt with a woman's struggle with her self-image and unrealistic concepts of beauty portrayed in the media. Long time contributor Dallas Austin helped Watkins adapt the poem into an empowering song for their female fan base to overcome feelings of physical inadequacy. "Unpretty" was the second single released from ''FanMail''. It became the group's fourth US number one single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, spending three weeks atop the chart, and the second consecutive number one single in from the album, following "No Scrubs". A critical success, the song was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards. A remixed version of the song, sampling Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett's "Don't Look Any Further", was produced by JayDee of 1208Ent. and "Mad" Mike Lewin. ==Music video== Paul Hunter directed the music video for "Unpretty", which was filmed in June 1999 in Valencia, CA, and cost over $1.6 million to make. The clip ties together vignettes of several different stories relating to the song's lyrics. The main set of vignettes features a young woman, portrayed by band member Chilli, whose boyfriend convinces her to get breast implants to augment her modest bust. However, after she sees another patient in the hospital (played by actress Jade Valerie) getting her implants painfully removed, the woman flees the hospital in fear, and is later shown fighting with her boyfriend. Another prominent set of vignettes features Lopes as an inner-city woman who witnesses a gang fight and a murder. Several of Lopes' scenes are set to her verse from "I'm Good at Being Bad", another track on ''FanMail'', instead of "Unpretty". Lopes also appears in the "Unpretty" performance shots reciting the song lyrics in sign language. Other vignettes feature a full-figured teenager (played by actress Tamika Katon-Donegal)〔http://www.sag.org/iactor/tamikakaton-donegal.pdf〕 worried about fitting the "ideal" image of the petite supermodel and struggling with a bulimia as a result. Near the end of the video, however, she tears down the unrealistic images of models that she has tacked on her wall and changes into a bathing suit, a sign that she may be starting to embrace her own natural body shape. One last set of vignettes features Watkins as a high school student who is harassed by two white kids because she is black (which is based on what she dealt with in high school). The group's official YouTube channel contains a shortened version of the video, released to all-ages audience (as "Children's Version"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TLC (UK) Unpretty - Childrens Version UK Promo video (VHS or PAL or NTSC) (289882) )〕), that removes both Watkins and Lopes' solo storylines, and some of the scenes considered as too explicit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unpretty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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