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== Music == |
== Music == |
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* "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On," a 2005 country hit by Neal |
* "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On," a 2005 country hit by Neal McCoy, about a man who – after being dumped by his girlfriend – gets very drunk and starts approaching women at random, with every one of them the homecoming queen type (even if butt ugly). The song also humorously plays up the man's positive perception of bar fights and lights in the same bar. |
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* "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time," a No. 1 country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1976. Here, a young man experiences the "beer goggle" effect as he becomes progressively intoxicated during a night at the tavern. At the beginning of his evening out, he only makes plays for the most attractive female patrons at the bar ("''I'm lookin' for a nine, but eight could work right in''"), but his standards become progressively lower as the night wears on ("''A few more drinks and I might slip to a five or even four''") before ending up waking up with an ugly woman (a "1") and swearing off alcohol. |
* "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time," a No. 1 country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1976. Here, a young man experiences the "beer goggle" effect as he becomes progressively intoxicated during a night at the tavern. At the beginning of his evening out, he only makes plays for the most attractive female patrons at the bar ("''I'm lookin' for a nine, but eight could work right in''"), but his standards become progressively lower as the night wears on ("''A few more drinks and I might slip to a five or even four''") before ending up waking up with an ugly woman (a "1") and swearing off alcohol. |
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* "Ten With a Two," the trope namer, most famously recorded by [[Willie Nelson]] and included on his 1991 album, ''Born for Trouble''. The song describes a middle-aged man who, after a night of drinking at a corner tavern, approaches an ugly woman. Because of the beer goggle effect, the woman has passed for beautiful in the man's eyes, and he retires with her to have sex. As Nelson sings, "''Last night I came home at 2 with a 10, but at 10 I woke up with a 2''." When it was a single in summer of 1991, the song gained some noteriety by conservative and women's groups for what they viewed as demeaning lyrics toward "less than perfect" women -- in other words, that the song was really about someone disparaging ugly women as having no social, romantic or other redeeming values. |
* "Ten With a Two," the trope namer, most famously recorded by [[Willie Nelson]] and included on his 1991 album, ''Born for Trouble''. The song describes a middle-aged man who, after a night of drinking at a corner tavern, approaches an ugly woman. Because of the beer goggle effect, the woman has passed for beautiful in the man's eyes, and he retires with her to have sex. As Nelson sings, "''Last night I came home at 2 with a 10, but at 10 I woke up with a 2''." When it was a single in summer of 1991, the song gained some noteriety by conservative and women's groups for what they viewed as demeaning lyrics toward "less than perfect" women -- in other words, that the song was really about someone disparaging ugly women as having no social, romantic or other redeeming values. |
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** [[Kenny Chesney]] recorded a cover the song, and is a track on is 2008 album ''Lucky Old Sun''. |
** [[Kenny Chesney]] recorded a cover the song, and is a track on is 2008 album ''Lucky Old Sun''. |
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== Western Animation == |
== Western Animation == |
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