Posted on 07/22/2022 1:08:08 PM PDT by 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.
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Does anybody here remember the Pat Benetar look a like scene in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, lol?
Oh my God, these people are just so ridiculous it isn’t even funny any more. I swear this society has become so dumbed down I’m starting to wonder if there is any hope for us left. It’s looking like we are going to have to collapse first before we rise from the ashes. These bimbo’s and their virtue signaling ugh.
The Asheville Smoke (a now defunct minor league hockey team) used to play it every time a fight broke out.
It was by no means her best work.
Heartbreaker and Love is a Battlefield are pinnacle girl singing...up there with Annie Lennox and Grace Slick.
such wussses these “entertainers” be
I wasn’t aware Pat Benatar was still singing anything.
She looks like Jim Carrey in The Mask. Doze teefs!
https://www.nme.com/news/film/jim-carrey-the-mask-sequel-one-condition-2601506
Why not a shot of Bourbon?
She can do what she wants, but it doesn’t really make much sense to me. The lyrics are “hit me with your best shot,” not “shoot me with your best shot.” In boxing, there are head shots, and body shots, and it seems clear to me in the song that that’s the kind of shot being referred to, and that it has nothing to do with firearms.
I never thought that song was referring to guns.
I’m going to sue Ms. Nebatar if she breaks her promise!
You’re a real tough cookie
With a long history
Of breaking little hearts like the one in me
That’s okay, lets see how you do it
Put up your dukes, let’s get down to it
Hit me with your best shot
Why don’t you hit me with your best shot
Hit me with your best shot
Fire away
You come on with the come on
You don’t fight fair
That’s okay, see if I care!
Knock me down, it’s all in vain
I get right back up on my feet again!
Hit me with your best shot
Why don’t you hit me with your best shot
Hit me with your best shot
Fire away
You’re a real tough cookie with a long history
Of breaking little hearts like the one in me
Before I put another notch in my lipstick case
You better make sure you put me in my place!
Hit me with your best shot...
C’mon!
Hit me with your best shot...
Hit me with your best shot
Fire away!
Hit me with your best shot
Why don’t you hit me with your best shot
Hit me with your best shot
Fire away
Nope ... don’t see anything referring guns in there at all.
So, they played it as a round?
He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)--The Crystals (1962)
Owl was just about to say that “Shadows of the Night” glorifies war. “Hell is for Children” who are forced by grandma to listen to Pat Benatar. 😂
She looks like the Polish American bapscia that she is.
The ultimate in virtue signaling
Nobody else I know did either.
No one that has ever heard the song would think it was about guns. “Put up your dukes” should be a pretty strong clue that it is about, figuratively, a fist fight.
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