For My Sunday Song #451, we are going to talk about the pop ballad “Beautiful Disaster” by Jon McLaughlin. The song is off his 2007 album ‘Indiana’. The single was released in April of that year and was the first single on the album. It hit #28 on the Adult Top 40 chart and helped push the album to #81 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Jon wrote the song with the help of Jamie Houston and they penned a song that is extremely heartbreaking and yet beautiful at the same time.
“Beautiful Disaster” is about a woman who is so broken inside. She is beyond lonely as it seems she has been left many times before and is now extremely insecure. She doesn’t feel worthy and feels ugly on the inside and out. Everything in the world is telling her she’s not enough…the magazines, the guys who left her and if this was in the present time, the social networks would as well. No one has ever told her that she is perfect the way she is and it is okay to be who you really are not to pretend to be someone she’s not.
She hooks up with guys and does what they want just to feel something. She bends to their will as she is so desperate for a connection. But what she is really looking for is that someone that will take her home and love her for who she is. She simply wants to be Needed. The line…”She never stays the same for long / Assuming that she’ll get it wrong / Perfect only in her imperfection” summarizes how she feels that she has to act a certain way to be loved. It is all terribly sad.
Continue reading “My Sunday Song – “Beautiful Disaster” by Jon McLaughlin”
38 Special – Milestone – (38 Special Records)
Mike Tramp – The Songs of White Lion Vol. III – (Frontiers Records)
Jelusick – Apolitical Ecstasy – (Escape Music)
Buckingham Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (2025 Remaster) – (Buckingham Records / SN Entertainment)
I Prevail – Violent Nature – (Fearless Records)
Nine Inch Nails – Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – (The Null Corporation and Walt Disney / Interscope Records)
Cardi B – Am I The Drama? – (Atlantic Records)
Biffy Clyro – Futique – (1968 Ltd / Warner Music)
The Favors – The Dream – (Darkroom Records)
Briscoe – Heat of July – (ATO Records)
Motley Crue – From The Beginning – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
Foreigner – 4 (Deluxe Edition) – (Atlantic Recording / Warner Music)
Led Zeppelin – Live EP – (Atlantic Recording Corporation)
Spinal Tap – The End Continues – (Authorized Spinal Tap, LLC / Interscope Records)
Daughtry – Shock To The System Part Two – (Dogtree Records / Big Machine Label Group)
David Bowie – I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016 – (Rhino / Parlophone)
Phil Wickham – Song Of The Saints – (Fair Trade Services)
Ed Sheeran – Play – (Atlantic Records)
Rob Thomas – All Night Days – (Universal Records)
Primal Fear – Domination – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Glenn Hughes – Chosen – (Frontiers Records)
FM – Brotherhood – (Frontiers Records)
Big Thief – Double Infinity – (4AD Ltd)
Twenty One Pilots – Breach – (Fueled By Ramen)
David Byrne – Who Is The Sky – (Matador Records)
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend – (Island Records / UMG)
Bryan Adams – Roll With The Punches – (Badams Music Ltd) – Digital only – Physical release is next week
The Hives – The Hives Forever Forever The Hives – (Play It Again Sam)
Belinda Carlisle – Once Upon A Time In California – (Puglady)
The Beaches – No Hard Feelings – (AWAL Recordings)
The Beths – Straight Line Was a Lie – (ANTI)
Funkadelic – Funkadelic – (Org Music)
Deep Purple – Rapture of the Deep (20th Anniversary Remix) – (Edel Germany / earMusic)
Oasis – Complete Studio Albums Collection – (Big Brother Recordings)
Three Days Grace – Alienation – (RCA Records / Sony Music)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina (25th Anniversary) – (Virgin Records)
Deftones – Private Music – (Reprise Records)
Crowne – Wonderland – (Frontiers Records)
Robert Jon & The Wreck – Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes – (Journeyman Records)
John Fogerty – Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (John’s Version) – (John Fogerty / Concord)
The Who – Live at the Oval 1971 – (UMe)
Jon Batiste – Big Money – (Verve Records / Interscope Records / Naht Jona LLC)
Ciara – CiCi – (Beauty Marks Entertainment)
Will Hoge – Sweet Misery – (Edlo Records)
Ellefson Soto – Unbreakable – (Rat Pak Records)
Chevelle – Bright As Blasphemy – (Alchemy Recordings / BMG)
Maroon 5 – Love is Like – (Interscope Records)
Van Halen – Balance (Expanded Edition) – (Rhino Records / Warner Records)
As December Falls – Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine – (As December Falls)
Deep Purple – Made In Japan (Steven Wilson Remix) – (Purpletuity Ltd / Rhino Records)
Rise Against – Ricochet – (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord)
2 Loud 2 Old Music 