Scars to Your Beautiful

"Scars to Your Beautiful" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara.

Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group serviced it to contemporary hit radio on July 26, 2016, as the third single from her debut studio album Know-It-All (2015).

Cara felt motivated to make the song after viewing an episode of Botched.

"[3]Cara also noted that the song was inspired by Christina Aguilera's 2002 ballad "Beautiful".

"[6] Billboard ranked "Scars to Your Beautiful" at number 77 on their Billboard's 100 Best Pop Songs of 2016: Critics' Picks" list, commenting “Body-positivity anthems typically don't get this dark, but on "Scars To Your Beautiful," Alessia Cara isn't afraid to talk cutting, tears and eating disorders, before getting to the uplifting chorus, where she delivers some of the most empowering, horizon-expanding lyrics of this year: ‘You don't have to change a thing / The world could change its heart.’”[7] The music video was published on July 11, 2016, with a cameo appearance by singer JoJo.

Since we had this song — and since we knew it was going to be a single — I had this vision of many different cinematic shots of different kinds of people.

The song was used in the international trailer of A Wrinkle in Time,[10] as well as the background music for the introduction video of Dirt Rally 2.0.