70+ Songs About Beauty of Life and Nature

Filed Under: Life Songs

Some say that music is the closest we can get to wielding magic. Nowadays, we can wield this magic with a click of a button. We can lose ourselves in songs just as beautiful as the artist’s muse.

It’s no surprise that there are many songs about beauty, the beauty in our world, and nature. Songs can even help us find beauty in everyday situations.

In this article, we’ve created a list of songs about the different kinds of songs we can find in the world.

I. Latest songs about beauty (2020, 2021)

Beauty has long been a popular topic for musicians and the last two years have been no different.

1) Beautiful mistakes

This song deals with the beauty of dealing with the aftermath of a breakup. In the song, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, takes on the role of someone who has broken up with his girlfriend.

2) Body

3) Bite me

4) Love Music

5) Stupid Love

6) Floating Through Space

7) Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris

II. 80s songs about beauty

The 80s was a decade of glamour and extravagance. Often songs from the 80s will be using “beauty” to sing about fashion and the glamour of the decade.

1) Pretty in Pink

2) She’s a beauty

3) Blackfurs

4) The Look

5) Sharp Dressed Man

6) Fashion

7) Dress You Up

III. Songs about the beauty of nature

Nature’s wondrous beauty has always been an inspiration for musicians and artists alike. For musicians, songwriters and singers would

1) I saw God today

“I saw God today” was written about how we take things for granted in our busy lives such as the natural world around us.

2) Annie’s Song

3) Cowboy Take Me Away

This song uses images from nature to tell a story about a girl missing her late boyfriend and spending time in nature with him.

4) The Call of the Wild

5) Sweet Summer Loving

In “Sweet Summer Loving” Dolly Parton sings about beautiful images such as “running barefoot and feeling free” and “stream in the country.”

6) Fishin in the Dark

7) Mother Earth (Provides for Me)

IV. Songs about beauty in the world

With everything we see in the news, it’s easy for someone to lose their faith in humanity and forget that there’s beauty in the world. Often when musicians sing about the beauty in the world, they will often use to remind listeners that there is still good and beauty in the world.

1) Beauty in the World

2) What a Wonderful World

This decades-old classic is all about appreciating the simple things in the world around us.

3) I Can See Clearly Now

4) East to the West

5) Peace

This song is about encouraging its listeners to spread a peaceful message whoever they meet, wherever they go.

6) The World is Ours

7) Wonderful World, Beautiful People

V. Songs about unrealistic beauty standards

Unrealistic beauty standards have long been a concern for parents of teenagers and even young adults. Many female musicians have used their songs to speak out against this issue.

1) Don’t you know you’re beautiful

The singer explained that this song has a powerful message of not comparing yourself to the artificially enhanced photos in magazines or online.

2) Who You Are

3) Scars to your beautiful

This song shares a powerful message of telling people that they shouldn’t have to change how they look to feel beautiful and that it’s the world that needs to change.

4) Crooked Smile

5) Secrets

6) Try

Caillat explained to Radio.com that this song is about how women are often told that they need to change in different ways just to be accepted by others.

7) Perfect

VI. R&B songs about beauty

With R&B music, the theme of beauty can be used to describe a variety of things from beautiful women to loving someone just the way they are.

1) Beautiful girls

This song is about a young man who can’t be with a beautiful woman and feels “suicidal” about it. This aspect did cause some controversy when the song was released.

2) Beauty is only skin deep

3) Unpretty

4) Just The Way You Are

This song is about a man telling a woman that he loves how beautiful she is just the way she was. He describes her eyes and her hair.

5) You & I (Nobody in the world)

6) Girl Can’t Be Herself

7) Beauty

VII. Rock songs about beauty

In rock songs, beauty, and youth are closely related. Some rock songs about beauty

1) Beautiful Girls

Beautiful Girls is a song about a rockstar saying that all he wants is beautiful girls in life.

2) Oh, Pretty Woman

3) True Colors

4) Wonderful tonight Young and beautiful

5) Prom Queen

Prom Queen by Beach Bunny has been considered “a protest of Euro-centric beauty standards.”

6) The Beautiful People

VIII. Country songs about a beauty

A lot of the time when country songs talk about “beauty” or something that’s beautiful, the artist is talking about someone or something they love. 

1) Beautiful drug

Country singer Zac Brown explained that this song isn’t about using illegal drugs but about a girl instead. The song is about a woman that is so beautiful and alluring that he compares her to a drug.

2) Beautiful crazy

3) She don’t know she’s beautiful

This song is about a woman that the singer finds beautiful, not just for her physical beauty but also for her inner beauty.

4) Her own kind of beautiful

5) Worldwide beautiful

6) Sleeping Beauty

7) Whole Lotta Woman

This song was written by Kelly Clarkson and her producers as an anthem about female empowerment.

IX. Songs with the word beauty/beautiful in the title

Songs with the words “beauty” or “beautiful” in the title often are about the beauty of loving yourself. These songs can even use beauty to disguise something that might not be beautiful at all.

1) Beautiful

2) You’re beautiful

There’s a popular misconception that this song is romantic but James Blunt explained this is far from the truth. He explained that this song is about a man stalking a woman who is the girlfriend of one of his friends.

3) Beautiful

4) Beautiful

5) Beautiful

6) Beautiful

7) Beautiful

X. Songs with the word beauty/beautiful in the lyrics

Songs with beauty or beautiful in the lyrics can be used to describe the positive things in the musician’s life.

1) But beautiful

2) Simply beautiful

3) Beautiful

4) Beautiful Blue

5) Beautiful Child

6) Beautiful love

7) America you’re beautiful to me