Why the change from the original title of the album (“Cherry Blue Skies”) to “A Beautiful World”?
Thicke: Well it had been obviously [“Cherry Blue Skies” was written about September 11th] been over a year since I’d written the song. Of course, “Cherry Blue Skies” was not just a song about my feelings then but it’s about my feelings about ongoing turmoil and pain and struggle. We should always been striving to not fight violence with violence but to actually try to figure out a way to make things better. “A Beautiful World” is similar though. There’s no doubt that there are times when it’s definitely not a beautiful world. More than ever, right now things are going on that prove that it’s a “difficult” time and a lot of people would say, “The world is not beautiful. The world is messed up right now.” But to me, you have a chance every day to make a conscious decision of how you see yourself, the people around you and the world you live in. I just try to remind myself how many beautiful things there are. I just want the album to stand for that although it seems things are all fucked
