Pretty Hurts should have been a #1 single. It doesn't matter if Rihanna or Beyonce sang it. It should have been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Beyonce's release strategy ruined the song's chance of charting well. The videos shouldn't have all come out all at once. By the time 'Pretty Hurts' became a single, people had already heard the song and seen the video 7 months earlier. The song had no momentum. There was no amazement at what she did with the video, because when the single was meant to be new, it was already 7 months old.