Beautiful Creature

A collectors' edition of both Beautiful Creature and Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure was also simultaneously released.^[7] It contained a third enhanced CD that included a Juliana Hatfield screensaver, a photo gallery consisting of six pictures, a web link to Hatfield's webpage at Zoë Records, a cover of The Police's "Every Breath You Take", "When You Loved Me" (Mex Mix) and an open letter from Hatfield to her fans.^[8] The letter read as follows:

I was living in Los Angeles. I seemed to have fallen for an image (deep down, I'm really shallow). It was so beautiful. His eyes were black. But as I walked down my street, all the neighborhood dogs seemed trained to attack. And the sun was like a deathray.

This is a dangerous business. People aren't always what they seem, even when they think they are telling the truth. All motivations are hidden.

I had planned on staying a year, but after six months, I became restless enough to leave. Always wanting to be somewhere I'm not, content only when en route. Music sounds better in a moving car.

Where am I now? I'm still here. In between. Thank you for asking. Without you, I may have ceased to exist.

Juliana Hatfield

"Every Breath You Take" and "When You Loved Me" (Mex Mix) (instead referred to as the "US Mix") appear as bonus tracks on the Japanese edition.^[9]

Beautiful Creature received far more favorable reviews from critics than Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure.^[1][10] It was described as a "Stripped down, intimate work that harkened back to Hatfield's early 90s material."^[11]

Scripp's Howard News Service's Mark Brown ranked both Beautiful Creature and Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure as #5 on his list of the top 10 albums of 2000.^[12]