Not Pretty Enough

"Not Pretty Enough"
Single by Kasey Chambers
from the album Barricades & Brickwalls
B-side
  • "These Days"
  • "Tear Stained Eyes"
  • "Too Long in the Wasteland"
Released14 January 2002 (2002-01-14)
Length3:20
Label
Songwriter(s)Kasey Chambers
Producer(s)Nash Chambers
Kasey Chambers singles chronology
"On a Bad Day"
(2001)
"Not Pretty Enough"
(2002)
"Million Tears"
(2002)

"Not Pretty Enough" is a song by Australian country singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers, produced by her brother Nash Chambers for her second studio album, Barricades & Brickwalls (2001). It was released as the album's third single on 14 January 2002 in Australia as a CD single. It became a number-one hit in Australia the same year, and it also found success in New Zealand, where it reached number four. In the United States, it was serviced to adult album alternative radio in late January 2002.

The song was written by Chambers as a commentary on the reluctance of commercial radio stations towards playing her music, despite her being an established performer.[1] However, the single prompted Chambers' commercial breakthrough and was most-added song to radio station playlists in 2002.[1]

  1. ^ a b Griffin-Foley, Bridget (2006). "Radio". In Turner, G.; Cunningham, S. (eds.). The Media and Communications. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. p. 145.