Piper Perabo: Can't Fight The Moonlight- Coyote Ugly (2000)

Source:Daily Motion- Piper Perabo singing LeAnn Rimes's Can't Fight The Moonlight.

Source:The New Democrat 

"Coyote Ugly - Can't Fight The Moonlight - Piper Perabo" 

From Daily Motion 

"Piper Perabo LeAnn Rimes Can't Fight The Moonlight" 

Source:Lena Safranova- Piper Perabo singing LeAnn Rimes's Can't Fight The Moonlight.

From Lena Safranova

For the first minute of this video I was trying to figure out whether or not Piper Perabo was actually singing. Or whether she was lip singing, or perhaps was wearing a secret earpiece and LeAnn Rimes was feeding her the words for her song. Also I didn’t know that John Goodman and Maria Bello spoke Spanish so well and were able to do it with Spanish accents. (Ha, ha)

For the sake of this post I’m going with Piper was actually singing and say that she did a very good job. I could buy that (especially if I was rich) because she does have a sweet voice and I could believe her as a good singer. With a lot of help from LeAnn Rimes who has one of the best voices in the business. And does a great job with a great song.

I could count on one hand the number of LeAnn Rimes songs that I like and not need all the fingers. I’m not a fan of country or country pop. Country rock I could listen to, but LeAnn has a great voice and would love to hear her sing to classic rock or R&B. She has a great voice for both.

Tyra Banks: Coyote Ugly (2000)

Source:LA Dibble- Tyra Banks: hot in Coyote Ugly.

Source:The New Democrat  

“I feel like I do have the dance moves, as long as no one choreographs me and tells me exactly how to dance,” replied Tyra.

She then joked that she was “tempted” to get dance lessons with renowned choreographer Derek Hough ahead of the sequel, adding: “I’m asking you now, Derek. Can you choreograph that for me?”

The original movie (as if you needed reminding!) follows aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford (portrayed by Piper Perabo) as she pursues a music career in New York City.

Working at bar Coyote Ugly to make a little extra cash on the side, Violet is welcomed into a family of all-singing, all-dancing female bar workers.”

From Tyla

“Trya Banks in Coyote Ugly.” Dancing on the bar."  

Source:Yep- Tyra Banks in Coyote Ugly.

From Yep

I believe this was the first scene in Coyote Ugly where the bar was open. And Violet played by Piper Perabo walks in for her tryout or audition and sees the women on the bar in action. And she comes from somewhat of a culturally conservative background, which is one of the reasons why she goes to New York and sees these gorgeous sexy women. And Tyra Banks perhaps being the best looking of these women dancing on the bar.

And I’m not saying that Tyra is a great actress, I would argue that she’s not and fairly limited as an actress, but this scene wasn’t so much acting. But sexy women especially Tyra dancing on the bar and she looked as great and did as well as any professional Coyote dancer I believe at the real Coyote bar. And watching her dancing in those tight leather jeans and boots and it is the first scene where you get to see the bar in action, you knew you were watching one hell of a good sexy movie.

Old School Trailers: Coyote Ugly (2000)

Source:Old School Trailers- Jersey's Girl's first night out.

Source:The New Democrat 

“Coyote Ugly – Starring Piper Perabo, John Goodman, Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan, and LeAnn Rimes.” 

Source:The New Democrat- the cast.

From Old School Trailers

I’m going to be real honest here and take note of that, because it might be a while before you see me being honest again. And I go back to being a lying bastard till the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. I had never heard of Coyote Ugly until I saw this movie, well until I heard this movie was out some time I guess in the spring or summer of 2000. I didn’t know that Coyote Ugly was not only a real bar, but a national corporation with a chain or Coyote Ugly bars all around the country. Including Washington where I live around in Bethesda. Some times it takes a big movie like this for me to discover new things.

And then after the movie I see the show Wild On with Brooke Burke that was on E back in the day do a feature about Coyote about a year or so after the movie came out. TLC did a realty show about Coyote like in the spring of 2004 about a women who wants to become a Coyote dancer. And talent scouts I guess from Coyote show her the ropes. CMT launches a series in 2004, a contest really that gives tryouts for Coyote dancers and other employees with the winners getting jobs with the company. And that show lasts for about five seasons or so. And I still have several of those episodes on DVD.

This one movie completely got me into the world of Coyote Ugly. Not just because of the movie, but also because of all the shows about Coyote that came after. This post is not so much about the movie itself, which is a very good movie. But how one movie got a country interested in the Coyote Ugly bar and company. Their women, their dancers and everything that they are about and how they launch the careers of attracted sexy intelligent talented women. Who just need that one break to show the world what they can do.

Drop Dead Lauren: Coyote Ugly (2000) Piper Perabo: One Way or Another

Source:Drop Dead Lauren- Hollywood Babydoll Piper Perabo's One Way Or Another.

Source:Real Life Journal 

From Drop Dead Lauren 

The women of Coyote Ugly (2000) the movie) They're all beautiful (at least) but Maria Belo, (far left) Tyra Banks (far right) and Bridget Moynihan to the right of Tyra, really stand out to me as far as how sexy they were in this movie. And Coyote Ugly has more than that, but this is a sexy movie intentionally with the bar dancing, the leather jeans, or in Bridget's case the leather chaps over denim jeans. And Maria, Tyra, and Bridget, really make the movie memorable. And Piper Perabo does a great job singing in the movie.

Source:Real Life Journal- the girls of Coyote Ugly (2000)

First of all: I don’t believe this scene is believable and at risk sounding valley, it looks totally Hollywood. Which is sort of another way of saying that it looks made up, not real. 

I mean you essentially have a bar fight if not riot in the bar and this very young woman who could pass as a little girl (if she needed too) gets up on the bar and starts singing and the fighting stops to hear her sing. 

Now having said all of that, Piper Perabo did a very good job with a very good song. She doesn’t make you forget about Joan Jett, but I’m not sure that is possible. 

One of the great things about Coyote Ugly, the movie or the real business is the music. And this is an example of that. And the music might only trail the women of Coyote Ugly as far as importance to it.

Rick Whitlow: Coyote Ugly- 'Courtney's Body Shot'

Source:Rick Whitlow- Courtney at Coyote Ugly.

Source:Real Life Journal 

"Courtney giving body shots at Mary Ann's Bday Party @ Rita's Roadhouse" 

Source:Rick Whitlow- Courtney at Coyote Ugly. 

From Rick Whitlow

Source: Real Life Journal- Two Coyote Ugly girls. 

I never got the point of the Coyote Ugly shots and why that is popular there and why they do that. But I do like watching sexy women lying on the bar. Sexy well-built healthy looking women and checking out their tight legs in tight jeans on the bar. And watching sexy women crawl on the bar. There’s nothing really there to try to understand. It is real obvious to see why that is sexy. Assuming you’re not blind or gay, or a combination of both. Which is really what I was focusing on here in this video and perhaps wishing I was the guy there pouring the whisky or scotch or whatever drink they used to pour into that women’s bellybutton. Because she is obviously a very attractive sexy women who looks great in tight jeans as most if not all sexy women do.