Max McNown's 'Better Me For You (Brown Eyes)' has helped catapult the country artist to rising star status. Meet Billboard's July 2025 Chartbreaker.

Van Morrison waxed poetic about a brown-eyed girl, while Eric Clapton sang about a woman who “made my blue eyes blue.” Eye color is a distinct part of your features, unique to you.

Many years later, the notoriously terse Morrison admitted that ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ had begun life as “a calypso thing”, vaguely inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel Sylvie & Bruno.