Good Girlsby Nick Jonas
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- This was one of the first songs that Nick Jonas wrote with his buddy Jason Evigan ("Chains," Demi Lovato's "Heart Attack") for Last Year Was Complicated. The track finds him championing self-worth. "It's encouraging people to feel confident about because beauty and sexiness comes from within," Jonas explained in a Twitter video.
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