Not Pretty Enough

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"Not Pretty Enough"
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Single by Kasey Chambers
from the album Barricades & Brickwalls
B-side
  • "These Days"
  • "Tear Stained Eyes"
  • "Too Long in the Wasteland"
Released14 January 2002 (2002-01-14)
Length3:20
Label
Songwriter(s) Kasey Chambers
Producer(s) Nash Chambers
Kasey Chambers singles chronology
"On a Bad Day"
(2001)
"Not Pretty Enough"
(2002)
"Million Tears"
(2002)

Reception

In 2017, the song was selected for the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection of historically and culturally important recordings. [2]

Junkee said, "2009's The Loved Ones, a horror film about an obsessed stalker, put Kasey Chambers' hit in the mouth of its villain. But it wasn't subverting the song; it was just making the subtext into text. "Not Pretty Enough" is a ballad about over-stepping boundaries and weaponising self-hatred. The creepiness is already there. It’s a gloriously uncomfortable tilt into the painful things about love." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Not Pretty Enough"Kasey Chambers3:23
2."These Days" Powderfinger 5:16
3."Tear Stained Eyes" Jay Farrar 4:08
4."Too Long in the Wasteland" James McMurtry 4:44

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [9] 2× Platinum140,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
Australia14 January 2002CD EMI [10]
United States28 January 2002 Triple A radio Warner Bros. [11]
12 August 2002 [12]

References

  1. 1 2 Griffin-Foley, Bridget (2006). "Radio". In Turner, G.; Cunningham, S. (eds.). The Media and Communications. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. p. 145.
  2. Sounds of Australia 2017 | NFSA. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  3. Joseph Earp. "The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part Two". Junkee.
  4. "Kasey Chambers – Not Pretty Enough". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. "Kasey Chambers – Not Pretty Enough". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. "ARIA Top 100 Singles for 2002". ARIA . Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. "End of Year Charts 2002". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  8. 1 2 "2009 ARIA End of Decade Singles Chart". ARIA. January 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  9. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  10. "The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 14/01/2002" (PDF). ARIA. 14 January 2002. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  11. "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records . No. 1437. 25 January 2002. p. 31. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  12. "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1465. 9 August 2002. p. 33. Retrieved 26 April 2021.