[1] The song was written by the band's lead singer Adam Levine, Megan Thee Stallion, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Joe Kirkland, and producers Andrew Goldstein and Blackbear.

"Beautiful Mistakes" is a guitar-driven[3] pop rock song with heavy drums and atmospheric synths[4] and a tranquil beat.

[11] The video is set in a CGI/technicolor version of Los Angeles, which follows Adam Levine performs the song and walking across from the city alone, where he drives a 1974 Cadillac Eldorado and flying around through the sky, until Megan Thee Stallion arrives on the 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III performing her rap as she joins Levine through the sunset with flying donuts ending the video.

Variety included it in their list of the worst songs of 2021, saying that "this hookup between two of the M’s in the address book of music’s most eager-to-collaborate stars is evidence of the avalanche of pop/rap duets where both the performers and their characters don’t sound like they exist in the same universe".

[12] On March 30, 2021, Maroon 5 performed "Beautiful Mistakes" for the first time in a virtual concert as part of the American Express Unstaged series.