“Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems” appears on Del Rey’s fifth studio album. Lana talked about “thinking she finished the record” before deciding to include a woman in it. While speaking to her longtime producer Rick Nowels, they both came up with Stevie Nicks. The song was first to be written by Nowels and Nicks in New York, before they flew to LA and finished it with Lana.

The title was revealed as “Beautiful People” only in an interview for Flaunt Magazine. Confirming to be the track that would feature Stevie Nicks, and later confirmed to be “Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems” while been interviewed after the 2017 KROQ Weenie Roast y Fiesta Festival.