Yes. Like drunkenness, it was caricatured for comedic effect.
In all directions:
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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Exactly. A stupid attempt to mollify morons.
That said.....best video of her. Hubba!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAFoSLgtGv8
She’s a virtue signalling idiot.
Speaking of now defunct minor league hockey teams, the Macon Whoopie wins the championship for best team name.
Uh huh. And Elvis is no longer singing “Hunka Burnin’ Love” to protest the STD crisis.
I’m surprised she’s still singing at all, I thought she might have assumed room temperature.
Isn’t that sweet?
Saying nothing would have been the best approach, and if someone actually complained, Pat could have shut them down by stating the obvious intent of the song. “Bite me!”, would have been appropriate.
Who?
Never bought anything from them, never will.
Hey Pat, 1980 was 32 years ago. I am long retired from the job I began then, you should too.
THE FUNNY PART? Here in So California, She mostly sings at Indian casinos to avoid taxes for concerts.
Hypocrite. At least Seinfeld states why he does it.
I thought that double entendre referred something a lot of men in the 80’s wanted to try on or in various parts of her body.
Jab me with your clot shot. I said, jab me with your clot shot! Jab me with your clot shot, Fauci would say!
See? That took two whole seconds and it's just as lame. Sheeesh.
“Pat Benatar has stopped singing ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ in protest of gun violence...]
I have long since stopped listening to Pat Benatar, so without this article, I would have never known.
How do we know that this song is truly about ‘gunfire’?
Zero, zip, zilch.
However, her brain may have become a black hole, allowing no knowledge to escape...
I'll bet she didn't refuse the money from the use of one of her tunes in the car chase scene of 2021's Nobody (Bob Odenkirk action movie, sort of a low-rent, grittier John Wick). LOTS of guns in that scene.
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