Being Pretty Ain't Pretty

Album: Annie Up (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This confessional details the painstaking process women go through every day just to get dressed. The collaboration was inspired by a tweet Ashley Monroe sent saying she had just bought a ton of make-up and make-up wipes to remove it all. "Women are warriors and we go into battle everyday with the stuff we wear," said Angaleena Presley.
    "You spend all this money for make-up and eyelashes and spray tanners just to wipe it all off at the end of the night," added Miranda Lambert.

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