"She's a Beauty" is a song by American rock band the Tubes, released in 1983 on their album Outside Inside.

"She's a Beauty" was co-written by Fee Waybill, producer David Foster and Steve Lukather.

Drummer Prairie Prince attributed the song's lyrics to Waybill and the music to Foster.

It was called the Tenderloin, and it was where there were seedy clubs, bars, prostitutes... it was the underbelly of San Francisco.

[5] "She's a Beauty" was released as the debut single from the band's 1983 album, Outside Inside, with the non-album track "When You're Ready to Come" on the B-side.

"[1] The popularity of "She's a Beauty" was largely driven by a narrative music video[7] that became a staple of then-fledgling MTV.

Ortega achieved greater success choreographing movies such as Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and as a director with High School Musical and its sequels.

Initially, the music video was intended to feature a version of a freak show based on the film Freaks; this was ultimately rejected by the record company as "too weird," so the band instead came up with the idea of the carnival ride.

[3] Other ideas were also blocked by the record company; Waybill recalled, "They constantly censored us...We had a topless mermaid, and of course, that was right out - we had to change that, and a bunch of stuff.

"[3] Waybill plays a carnival barker, a role he would reprise in live renditions of the song.

He takes money from a young boy who then rides a carnival car through hallucinogenic scenes of a mermaid, female trapeze artist, prehistoric women dressed in furs, and others.

At the end of the video we see the boy exiting the ride aged to an old man, the message apparently being the financial and emotional cost of falling in love with but being unable to obtain his heart's desire.