Cover Versions and Popular Culture
"Unpretty" was later covered by La Musique Populaire for their 2004 boxed set A Century of Song.
Up and coming British pop star David Swinburn also recorded a version of the track for the critically acclaimed Rewind 2 mixtape, which was released in January 2009.
In 2011, the song was covered by the hit television series Glee featuring Dianna Agron and Lea Michele (as Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry, respectively) in a mashup with the song "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story in the episode "Born This Way".
In 2011, Entertainment Weekly's Chart Flashback retrospective gave the song the highest grade of A, stating "Way before Gaga, Katy, et al. made self-esteem anthems de rigueur, T-Boz, Left Eye, and Chilli offered their own excellent call to arms for girls emotionally shipwrecked by mean boys and beauty myths."
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