Pat Benatar has stopped singing 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' in protest of gun violence

CNN via MSN ^ | 7/22/22 | Marianne Garvey

[Libloather]

Pat Benatar won’t perform her 1980 classic “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” anymore.

Amid ongoing gun violence in America, the singer says she’s come to view the song differently.

“I’m not going to sing it,” Benatar told USA Today.

While the song’s meaning is about strength and resiliency, Benatar said “you have to draw the line” and be aware of lyrics.

“I can’t say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can’t,” Benatar said, adding that the decision is her “small contribution to protesting.”

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Benatar said she will continue perform “We Belong,” “Heartbreaker” and other hits from early in her career. “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the singer’s first Top 10 hit.

[larrytown]

Is that Pat-Benetar maths?

[ronniesgal]

thats just stupid. She should stop singing Hell Is For children.

[bunkerhill7]

“best shot” has nothing to do with guns..she appears to be an idiot

[Karma_Sherab]

Headline would read better as

Pat Benatar has stopped "singing"

[KingLudd]

“1980 was 32 years ago.”

Lol!

Seriesly, I always thought her band was excellent.

[TigersEye]

I’m glad that Pat Benatar finally realized that she is the cause of gun violence not the guns.

Just to be on the safe side she should have all of her microphones and amps confiscated.

[silent majority rising]

I was thinking “Halls of Montezuma..

[NWFree]

Is she still going to sing Hell is for Children? 🤪

[TigersEye]

I appreciate her concern, but does she really believe anyone said “That’s it. I’m going to shoot someone.” after listening to that song.

There were two or three suicides but that's about it.

[moovova]

Has she considered...”Hit me with your best snot!”?

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Hit me with your best shot is a sexual reference so...

Pat is so nobel.

[Chewbarkah]

Hey you scoffers — just think of how many times today’s crazy yutes have gunned down the innocent right after grooving to Pat Benatar’s ejaculatory exhortations. It must be thou...hund...ten...onc..., er...nevermind.

[Yo-Yo]

Maybe Pat can do a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s anti-gun song “Saturday Night Special.”

[alternatives?]

That’s not the scene I remember.

[BatGuano]

Don’t know Pat Benatar but if she doesn’t know what the lyrics mean, I don’t want to know her. Airhead at loose.

[Allegra]

“I’m not going to sing it,” Benatar told USA Today.

Who cares?

You virtue signalers are boring, Pat.

[BatGuano]

Alive, she is, and well fed too!

[Secret Agent Man]

For consistency she will have to stop singing “Love is a Battlefield” as well.

She could also just stop singing.

[mylife]

what a silly bunt...

[Secret Agent Man]

Look, Gammy’s singing!

Keith Richards is still gonna outlive her.