Grace Gaustad discusses the harmful societal norms placed on young women in her powerful video. “Beauty & the Beast,”This video dropped Friday. The visual is available here. Rolling StoneThis video, featuring Loren Gray, TikTok’s favorite TikTok user, follows Gaustad through plastic surgery, making her completely unrecognizable.
“In the age of social media, young people find themselves comparing their own identity and beauty to those that are disguised by smoke, mirrors, filters, and plastic surgery,”Gaustad tells Rolling StoneAbout the song. “We live in a world where it is very easy to be sucked into narcissism and an obsession with one’s outside appearance.”
She adds, ” ‘Beauty & The Beast’ takes aim at what it looks like when this obsession goes too far and where real beauty lies.”
Van Alpert’s video opens with her getting a grant of her wish. “Bodega Man” as she enters an elevator into a magical (read: dystopic) surgery clinic, alongside a character played by Loren Gray, the TikTok queen and Gaustad’s “super authentic”Collaborator and friend
“Beauty culture is something that I’ve seen the negative side of for years and to have the chance to be able to bring attention to that has been really important to me,”Gray. “Everyone deserves to feel loved and beautiful in their own skin.”
The visual follows a choreographed group of doctors as they perform plastic surgery on Gray’s face as Gaustad waits in the waiting room for her turn. Gray finishes her work and Gaustad rides a wheelchair around the hospital, showing off her Lady Gaga-esque moves. After the surgery, viewers can see how Gaustad transforms into a super-suaved version of herself, with large lips, exaggerated cheekbones, and huge lips that allow her barely to move her face.
The song is the latest single from her forthcoming album.PILLBX – What is your dream? LP and the third episode of a video miniseries that’s accompanying the project. The single is the follow-up to “Everybody’s Friend,”And her tribute to Lady Gaga. “GAGA.” She’s also dropped singles “PILLBX”And “Pink Cadillac”This is the year.
Gaga even praisedThe singer following the song’s release: “So proud of her and I feel touched she wrote a song inspired by me. Love her!” theChromaticaOn queen Twitter.