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| Released | January 15, 2013 | |||
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| Length | 63:18 | |||
| Label | Universal | |||
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| Metacritic | 69/100 [1] |
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
Beautiful is the fourteenth and final studio album by American musician Teena Marie. It was posthumously released in January 2013 under Universal Music.
The album was completed by Marie's daughter, Alia Rose, due to her death in December 2010. [3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Luv Letter" | Teena Marie | 4:37 |
| 2. | "Sweet Tooth" | Zipporah Garnett, Teena Marie, Alia Rose | 5:36 |
| 3. | "Rare Breed" | Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie, Alia Rose | 4:37 |
| 4. | "Love Starved" | Teena Marie | 4:44 |
| 5. | "Definition of Down" | Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie, Darlene M. Ortiz | 4:49 |
| 6. | "Maria Bonita (For My Mother)" | James Allen, Lee Cadena, Teena Marie | 5:15 |
| 7. | "Beautiful (For Alia)" | Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie, Alia Rose | 5:44 |
| 8. | "The Long Play" | Greg Dalton, Doug Grigsby, Donnell Spencer Jr., Teena Marie | 6:30 |
| 9. | "Carte Blanche" | Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie, Daphne Wayans | 5:18 |
| 10. | "Give Me Your Love" | Curtis Mayfield | 4:56 |
| 11. | "Wild Horses" | Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie | 5:17 |
| 12. | "The Perfect Feeling" | Teena Marie | 5:48 |
| 13. | "Ooo Baby Baby" | Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore | 4:43 |
Beautiful, an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty, may refer to:
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