Beauty & Stupid

"Beauty & Stupid"
Single by hide
from the album Psyence
Released	August 12, 1996
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Universal Victor
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"Misery" (1996) "Beauty & Stupid" (1996) "Hi-Ho/Good Bye" (1996)
Music sample "Beauty & Stupid"

"Beauty & Stupid" is the sixth single by Japanese musician hide, released on August 12, 1996. It reached number 4 on the Oricon chart.^[1] On May 2, 2007, the single was re-released with a slightly different cover.^[2] On August 4, 2010, it was re-released again as part of the second releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by hide.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Beauty & Stupid"	4:06
2.	"Squeeze It!!"	2:21

Cover versions

The song "Easy Jesus" by hide's band Zilch has a similar guitar riff to that of "Squeeze It!!". "Beauty & Stupid" was covered by Kiyoharu and Shoji for the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.^[4] The title track was covered by Doppel for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album and by Diaura on Tribute III -Visual Spirits-, both albums were released on July 3, 2013.^[5] For Tribute VI -Female Spirits-, released on December 18, 2013, it was covered by Kanon Wakeshima.^[6]

References

1. "hideのシングル売り上げランキング" (in Japanese). oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
2. "hideの8cmシングル12cm化シリーズ第３弾、ついにリリース！". barks.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-06-26.
3. "hide singles on vinyl". tokyohive.com. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
4. "hide TRIBUTE SPIRITS". Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-06-10.
5. "Two hide Tribute Albums to be Released Simultaneously!". musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
6. "hide Tribute VI -Female SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.