She Ain't Pretty

"She Ain't Pretty" is a song by Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes, released as the lead single from their 1990 album Snow in June. It is the song for which The Northern Pikes are best known.
The song, written by Bryan Potvin, describes the singer's infatuation with a physically attractive woman and his dismay at learning that she is a horrible person—a "model from Hell". The song was inspired by an episode of Rhoda in which a character says "I'm not really beautiful, I just look that way."
In 1990, this song was the sixth-most played Cancon song in Canada.

Critical reception

In 1991, the song was nominated for the Juno Award for Single of the Year. Its music video, which integrated claymation and early use of morphing, and which the National Post described as "fantastic", was also nominated for a Juno.