I Feel Pretty 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,' especially 'I Feel Pretty, later expressing that "The idea of the song is so simple". The original stage version of the lyrics were altered in the making of the movie version of West Side Story due to a change in the scenes occurrence. Making 'I feel pretty and witty and bright/And I pity/Any girl who isn't me tonight' into 'I feel pretty, and
I Feel the Earth Move development of the song's melody into its chorus. Landau describes the melody of the refrain as "a pretty pop line". Forty years later, "Rolling Stone" stated that King's "warm, earnest singing" brought "earthy joy" to the song. Music journalist Harvey Kubernik wrote that "I Feel the Earth Move" was "probably the most sexually aggressive song on the "Tapestry" album" and a "brave" opening to an album whose mood is mostly "mellow confessionality". AllMusic critic Stewart Mason describes the song as "the ultimate in hippie-chick eroticism" and writes that it "sounds like the unleashing of an entire generation of soft-spoken college