14 Songs About Not Being Perfect
Being perfect in every single aspect is an impossible task since no one in this planet is perfect. We can only make improvements on ourselves and be better people. If you are struggling with thoughts of perfection, here is a list of songs:
1. Rag n Bone Man – Human
This is a song expressing the inability of humans to be perfect or even fix many of the problems in real life. It expresses the difficult things we all feel but finds it hard to express. It also acknowledges our problems and limited ability to resolve them.
The main theme of the song is human fallibility and fate. The human experience inherently has people living the high life and those disenfranchised by society.
2. Justin Bieber – I’ll Show You
Justin unveils his soft and vulnerable side in response to the mistakes he made during the course of his career. He wants to show everyone that he has changed. Since he grew up in the spotlight, his mistakes were magnified, unlike other teenagers who matured off the spotlight.
The track is part of the album Purpose, released in 2015.
3. Christina Perri – Human
In this song, Perri says she is willing to do anything for the person she loves but she isn’t perfect and her relationship with this person is breaking her down.
Christina tries to be as perfect as she can but it’s not enough for her partner and this is making her relationship slowly start breaking her down. She compares herself to a machine and can do anything asked or told. However, machines are destined to break down or run out of power and she feels she is at this stage.
4. Meghan Trainor – Nice To Meet Ya
In the song, Meghan tries to be immune to the mean comments on social media and the opinions of others since she knows she can’t be perfect. She has also done a lot to try and improve herself.
Meghan also tried to pass the message that we should not judge a book by its cover since we have no idea what someone’s going through or what they have lost. You shouldn’t judge someone from the five seconds you just met them.
5. Selena Gomez – Who Says
Selena says the track was intended to inspire people and fire back at the haters especially those involved in cyberbullying. Speaking to E!, Selena stated this about the song, “I feel that girls my age tend to question themselves a lot. They tend to dress and be what other people want them to be. I feel that everyone wants to follow the trends and what’s ‘cool’ and eventually, at the end of the day when you strip all of that down, are you really proud of yourself and comfortable in your skin?”
6. Anne Marie – Perfect To Me
Anne tried to get her fans to feel good about how they look. Her main goal was to have a song that made people feel better about themselves.
“This song actually put that all into an envelope, and says, ‘You’re okay the way you are.’”
7. Beyonce – Pretty Hurts
This is the opening track of Beyonce’s self-titled album. It talks about how perfection and the impossible standard of beauty set in society corrupt the nation. It portrays how we all try so hard to reach that singular, narrow-minded idea of “perfection” despite the fact that beauty itself is subjective. In the video, Beyonce is a beauty pageant contestant who is trying everything in her power to look flawless but still struggles to achieve perfection.
8. Alessia Cara – Scars To Your Beautiful
The song is mainly about body image and is directed at women. It’s the things women go through on a daily basis in order to feel loved or love themselves. This is thanks to the weird stuff society has instilled in us to tell us that we’re not good enough or that there’s only one kind of beauty. Alessia added that if the world doesn’t like how you then they should change their perspective.
It is off the album Know It All which was released back in 2015.
9. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass
The song is about people loving themselves for who they are and loving their insecurities plus having fun with it. The lyrics specifically tries to empower those who are thick. In an interview, Meghan said this about the track, ““All About That Bass” is about loving yourself, loving your body, loving your insecurities, and having fun with it.”
10. Ed Sheeran – Best Part Of Me
Ed specifically sings about his wife Cherry Seaborn whom he married in July 2019. He felt like she was above his league yet she decided to be with him. In an interview with Charlamange Tha God he stated:
Constantly, wake up every day with Cherry and I’ll be just like “why the fuck are you with me!” You can literally be with whoever you want to [be with]. But you’ve chosen me. Like I’m saying all of the things that are wrong with me, but you still wanna be with me.
11. Eminem feat Beyonce – Walk On Water
In the song, Eminem states he can’t live up to the godlike persona that people have given him. He says he isn’t as perfect as they think he is and has had a past filled with mistakes such as drug addiction and apparent homophobia. He added that the song was more about self-doubt, insecurities and other topics related to those.
Beyonce asks the public to remove her from the godlike pedestal they place her on. She released behind-the-scenes videos for her self-titled album which is about being human by learning from past mistakes.
12. Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber – Monster
The singers sing about the perils of life and uncertainty in the music industry. In a conversation with Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes states this on why he wanted to create the song:
At first I was writing it out of angst of being a celebrity. You know, feeling like my life was being watched all the time. As I grew it became more about like this idea of perfection is not real. it’s like you just have to surrender and kind of let go and be and love yourself. That pedestal is not only what society puts us on, it’s what I put myself on. And I had to just be like ‘you’re cool even if you like miss some note’. To put it basically, in the bigger picture, it’s not just about singing it’s about everything in life. It’s okay to mess up. That’s where I was coming from with it.
13. T.I feat Chris Brown – Get Back Up
T.I addresses his arrest regarding drug abuse and possession that occurred shortly after his wedding. He asks his fans for forgiveness and understanding since he is not perfect. He also states that he had been made out to be a horrible criminal despite his crimes being pale in comparison to others. The difference between him and other criminals is that he is famous and his mistakes are out there for everyone to see.
14. Chris Brown – Don’t Judge Me
This an emotional ballad where Chris Brown begs his partner not to judge him for his past mistakes since he isn’t a perfect person. Many presume the track was written about Chris’ former girlfriends Rihanna and Karreuche Tran, whom Chris Brown admitted to dating at the same time.