"A Beautiful Lie" is a song by American rock band

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. The song was released as the fourth single from their second album ''

A Beautiful Lie ''A Beautiful Lie'' is the second studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released on August 30, 2005 through Virgin Records. It was produced by Josh Abraham. ''A Beautiful Lie'' differs notably from the band's self-titled d ...

''. It was not released in the United Kingdom as a single.

History

On May 2, 2007, this was officially announced on the 30 Seconds to Mars official website, but not before checking the preference of the "Echelon". The band could not decide between "A Beautiful Lie" and "The Fantasy"; both songs contain a strong message which the band wished to deliver. The song impacted radio on July 17, 2007. It did chart at number 37 on the US Modern Rock charts in late 2007. This was due to the song receiving substantial radio airplay. Though initially released during the summer, the release date of the song had been pushed back to early 2008, possibly due to the long delay of the music video.

Music video

According to EMI Japan, the video for "A Beautiful Lie" was going to be shot in both

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and the

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. Jared Leto then moved the video to

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and

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. The video for "A Beautiful Lie" was shot in August 2007 in

. Jared has said that the video will be environmentally safe and for every download of the video, it will go to an environmental charity. Jared Leto has said on an over-the-phone interview with 99X in Atlanta that the video will be like a short film and a documentary. On 28 January it was aired through MySpace and on MTV. The video shows the importance of

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. The video was directed by Angakok Panipaq (a pseudonym for Leto based on a character from the

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children's book ''Spirits in the Snowhouse: The Inuit Angakok''). The video features hidden frames of coal emissions into the environment, dead animals and a cemetery of white crosses. A link for the global warming support websit
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(now defunct) is given at the end of the video. The music video has been shown through ''

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'' Magazine's website and MySpaceTV. The video is a montage of images of the Greenland environment interwoven with scenes of the band playing on the edge of an iceberg.

Delays

On November 6, 2007, it was revealed that the video would premiere on Yahoo! Music Premieres on November 12, 2007. Later, it was postponed for extra editing time to December 3, 2007. Then, it was announced that the video would premiere on December 5, 2007. Later, it was postponed again, and it was said the video would air sometime after Christmas according to MTV with a special "making of" of the music video aired on December 30. The Yahoo! Music Premieres then announced that the video would be aired on January 16, 2008, but soon after the video was removed from the list of upcoming premieres.Yahoo! Music Premieres
After months of delay due to heavy editing, the video finally premiered on MySpace on January 30, 2008, and aired on FUSE onJanuary 31, 2008.

Trivia

"A Beautiful Lie" was used for the promo of the Fox TV series ''

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''.

Track listing

;Standard # "A Beautiful Lie" (Single Shot) – 4:05 # "A Beautiful Lie" (Half Caf) – 3:50 ;U.S. # "A Beautiful Lie" (Single Shot) – 4:05 # "A Beautiful Lie" – 3:40 (live acoustic version) ;EP version #"A Beautiful Lie" (Half Caf) – 3:50 #"A Beautiful Lie" – 4:05 #"A Beautiful Lie" (Acoustic) – 3:41 #" Attack" (Live at

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) – 4:14

Chart positions

Personnel

* Jared Leto –

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* Tomo Miličević – guitar, programming *

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–

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, keyboard, synthesizers (does not appear in music video) *

Shannon Leto Shannon Leto (; born March 9, 1970) is an American musician best known as the drummer of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He co-founded the group in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his younger brother Jared. Their debut album, ''30 Seco ...

– drums

References

External links

A Beautiful Lie website
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