Pretty (advertisement) advertising and television industry awards. "Pretty" follows a day in the life of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova. It shows her getting ready, leaving The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and travelling by limousine to a match at New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium pursued by paparazzi. Every person she passes on the way sings a line from "I Feel Pretty", a song performed by the character Maria in the second act of the stage musical "West Side Story". She arrives at the game, where fellow players, reporters, camera crew, the ball boys and girls, announcers, and umpire sing the chorus along with
Pretty Persuasion (song) as one of the songs that influenced R.E.M.'s 2008 album "Accelerate". A live version from this tour was released on the 2009 live album "Live at the Olympia". "Pretty Persuasion" has also been included on several of R.E.M.'s compilation albums, including "The Best of R.E.M." in 1991 and "And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987" in 2006. Pretty Persuasion (song) "Pretty Persuasion" is a song by R.E.M. that was first released on the band's 1984 album "Reckoning". Although not released as a single, it reached number 44 on "Billboard"'s Rock Tracks chart. According to R.E.M. biographer