I Feel Pretty and Julie Andrews. Little Richard covered the song as part of the 1996 RCA Victor tribute album "The Songs of West Side Story". The song was mashed up with the song "Unpretty" by TLC in a "Glee" episode to create "I Feel Pretty/Unpretty", a duet that attempts to show the irony in people feeling pretty on the outside but unpretty on the inside. I Feel Pretty "I Feel Pretty" is a song from the 1957 musical "West Side Story". "The New York Times" explained that "Mr. Sondheim…has said he was never particularly fond of his lyrics in 'West Side Story,'
Pretty Persuasion (song) concise and repetitive. R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has stated that the song was originally inspired by a dream Stipe had. In the dream, Stipe was photographing the Rolling Stones for the cover of their last single, which in the dream was entitled "Pretty Persuasion". The song begins with a guitar riff based on descending arpeggios. Easter has noted a musical similarity to Todd Rundgren's 1972 song "Couldn't I Just Tell You" and thinks the earlier song provided some inspiration for "Pretty Persuasion". Janovitz notes similarities with songs by The Byrds. These include the guitar riffs, which although played on two