{"id":490851,"date":"2019-10-03T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=893729"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:52:51","slug":"the-breakdown-how-grace-vanderwaal-embraced-spontaneity-while-writing-ur-so-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-breakdown-how-grace-vanderwaal-embraced-spontaneity-while-writing-ur-so-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breakdown: How Grace VanderWaal Embraced Spontaneity While Writing \u2018Ur So Beautiful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grace VanderWaal<\/a> stopped by Rolling Stone<\/em> to detail how she wrote her song \u201cUr So Beautiful\u201d for our series The Breakdown. The 15-year-old recently wrapped a short tour named after the song<\/a>.<\/p>\n

VanderWaal revealed that the song is based on her own experiences. \u201cThat\u2019s always what I do with my writing,\u201d she explains. \u201cI exaggerate everything and add in my own little sprinkles of magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wanted to make the term \u201cbeautiful\u201d less gendered, since she sees both that and \u201cpretty\u201d almost exclusively used to describe women. \u201cI\u2019ve seen so many very pretty boys,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019ve always thought about incorporating that into a song. It was kind of the perfect moment to really make that idea we\u2019ve had for years really come alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

VanderWaal\u2019s process is built on spontaneity: this song in particular was written while the track was on a loop. She kept adding lines as it progressed. She compares songwriting to perfume: \u201cIf you don\u2019t smell anymore don\u2019t keep spraying it on. Your nose is getting used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video for \u201cUr So Beautiful\u201d was similarly spontaneous. She had been filming her life and recording process, thinking it would possibly be a documentary. Instead, the scenes felt like a perfect match for the song itself. \u201cIt was so magical and it just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

VanderWaal has released a few songs this year but has yet to reveal if the new singles are leading to a new album. She released her debut LP, Just the Beginning<\/em>, in 2017. In 2020, she will make her acting debut in Disney\u2019s Stargirl<\/em> adaptation.<\/p>\n

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Grace VanderWaal stopped by Rolling Stone to detail how she wrote her song \u201cUr So Beautiful\u201d for our series The Breakdown. The 15-year-old recently wrapped a short tour named after the song. VanderWaal revealed that the song is based on her own experiences. \u201cThat\u2019s always what I do with my writing,\u201d she explains. \u201cI exaggerate everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 19:41:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}