has pointedly dropped one of her biggest songs, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” from her tour setlist out of respect for the victims of mass shootings., Benatar noted that she and her band have what’s referred to as the “holy 14” — “songs that if we don’t play them, you’ll give us [a hard time].” Of course, 1980’s power pop smash “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” is typically part of that “holy 14,” but not on her current North American tour.
“[F]ans are having a heart attack and I’m like, I’m sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I’m not singing it,” Benatar said. “I tell them, if you want to hear the song, go home and listen to it. [The title] is tongue-in-cheek, but you have to draw the line. I can’t say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can’t. I’m not going to go on stage and soapbox — I go to my legislators — but that’s my small contribution to protesting.
That's a first step. Now can we get her to stop singing all of her songs? Ugh.
Watch. Now the pro-vax people will try to cancel her.
She should donate the millions she made on the song back
She did write her own songs and knows their meanings right? 🤡
Man. All these years. I thought it was “Hit me with your wet spot”
Oh, Pat... Do you not understand the silliness here?
Well THAT'LL solve the problem!
She's probably going to attend the photo shoot at the Rock & Roll Hall of fame in November, though...
Lol, this will solve the problem once and for all! 🤣
Lmfao
I missed on those lyrics
She's gotta do what she's gotta do. 💯 Truth, I thought the song was about a bartender contest. Making the ultimate shot of liquor 🤪
Ugh. Really?
Another one bites the dust.
It has nothing to do with shooting though.more nonsense
It's really her *only* song thought.
Cringe lol
I never really cared for the song anyway, painted desert is a much better song in my opinion. That being said, this seems to be pure attention seeking behavior.
Imagine not understanding the lyrics to your own song.
Tell me you don’t write your own music our even understand the lyrics without telling me you don’t write your music or even understand the lyrics.
Someone is looking to stay relevant.
dumb vapid useless
You mean as an attention getting stunt?
Will she be donating all of the proceeds she made to the victims of gun violence as well?
The song is not about guns and no one ever thought it was. I'm so disappointed that she's going down this stupid path. I have tix to see her in August and now feel annoyed about it.
Was gonna see her in August. Thanks for saving me the cash ✌️
As in the mass Pfizer/Moderna et al shootings, right?
adamcarolla as long as “Hell is for Children” stays
Haha
Rolling Stones is still a thing?!
What narcissism
WTF!? 🤦♂️
First tweet I see today and it's beyond dumb. I guess the rest of the day will be downhill from here.🤦♀️
This coming from an artist who has a song called “hell is for children”
Wtf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
DAF the song's shot isn't about that.
🤡🤡🤡
More stupidity disguised as woke virtue signaling.
Da fuck
All ten concert goers were very disappointed
Damn those county fairs about to be disappointed.
🙄
All she’s really doing is trying to make money off the deaths of children.
Someone tell Pat a brighter virtue signal would be to self-ban “Hell is for Children”
Blackjack players have stopped saying “hit me” and now say “I’ll have a card please” out of respect for Pat Benatar.
Lmao
So, the 20 people per minute ( According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence) being physically abused by an intimate partner meant nothing to her. I see.
Sweet Jesus
😶
Never ever thought it was about guns or shooting, it was a sexual shot.
🙄
So woke LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
Isn’t that the only song people like from her?
We live in the dumbest timeline
Why doesn't she just change the lyrics to 'Miss Me With Your Worst Shot'...'problem' solved. We are a very goofy country.
What a stupid thing to do, lmao.
it refers to a punch not a gun shot. Jesus this is so stupid
Hopefully she'll stop singing 'Hades for Birthed People' too. It's triggering.
Pat Benetar is still alive? And TOURING? Who knew?
🤡🌎
That's stupid. The song isn't about a gun.
Stunning and brave, Pat.
Been waiting for the right time to pull this baby back out…
That song was about guns? 😵💫
People have lost their fucking minds.
🤡🤡🤡🤡
This is the funniest headline I've ever read
Shouldn’t she drop “love is a battlefield” out of respect of Ukraine and their money?
Did she also stop collecting royalties and return the millions she's made off of it?
She dropped the one good song.
This is stupid.
She’s become a progressive joke. Anceling herself over nonsense.
'How can I make mass shootings about me?' -Pat Benatar
That song has nothing to do with gun violence. The song is about marital abuse .
I never once listened to this song and though of a gun
Pussy
Lmao absolute clown world.
Out of respect for victims? Was there some mass effort by victims to ban the song?
A true hero
Good. The less she sings the better for us all.
We don’t live in a serious nation.
Quite honestly as someone who remembers when that song came out, it hasn’t aged well and I won’t miss it, regardless of her chosen way to seek publicity, err I mean her chosen way to show respect to victims of violence.
More typical I'm so wonderful, I care so much routine from the left. The fact she felt she had to tell everyone instead of just performing without that song screams she needs everyone to know she is just so special.
The lengths that the boomers will go to.
Against war too No “love is a battlefield” either 🙄
So a song about a fist fight banned because of shootings? Virtue signaling much Geez…
Wait she has others songs Also I am for this I hope I never have to hear that horrid ear screening noise again
But Love is a Battlefield is fine? More political theatre.
Let's see, this song has been out since 1980 and there's been hundreds of mass shootings during this time. And now over 40 years later she's NOT singing this song-which is NOT even about gun violence-anymore out of 'respect' for victims of mass shootings?
is this what we're doing now? Music artists are going discontinue performing songs because terrible things happen in the world? ok. meanwhile: Alice Cooper- 'Schoooooooools Out, for summer'.....
hmm but that's her only song
I’m pretty sure that Pat Benatar really meant the plethora of COVID vaccines shots. The jab is more deadly than gun violence at this point. However, the Dems and Rinos are giving their best shot at False Flags.
I would think she'd have to offer refunds or cancel the tour outright. That's her hit. One-hit wonder.
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Is she touring retirement homes?
Uh, that’s some ridiculous bullshit right there. C’mon now.
Dude
Get woke, go broke
To those throwing Pat Benatar shade for choosing to not perform 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' live: She has a right to that choice, and I think we should all respect that choice.
Stupid!
Good for Pat!! 😎
Can’t hear what I grew up with then one less concert to go to
It's funny how mad people in the comments are. Don't like it? Don't go and see her. It's her song, her right. It is what it is. No need to throw a fit in the comment section like babies because of a song that's HERS not yours HERS. she doesn't even like that song herself anyways
Omg.give me a break.
thats her best song ,I guess I won't be going to see her now.
She bent the knee to social justice, feeble mind.
This is so stupid.
Ohhhhhhh fuck Pat done went WOKE oh well scratch her off my playlist
THIS IS NOT A PUBLICITY STUNT
Is the song even about guns? You can come up with many connotations with 'best shot'
😂😆😂
I actually think the real reason is her husband can't play the solo anymore
This is stupid, apparently she assumes her audience are incapable of thinking
Say it isn't so!!!!
Wow. She Wacky
OFFS
And now I dropped her.
That's a common level of VirtueSignaling Stupidity today. The 1 takeaway for me is AnotherBraindeadHasBeenHasFallen
Yeah, cause the song is clearly about taking your best shot with a gun and putting caps in people's asses. Great move, Patricia.
Hey look, free publicity for my tour that nobody knew I was on...
So I guess domesticviolence doesn't bother her so much as it's closer to that than school shootings.
This is very strange to me. The lyrics literally say, 'put up your dukes and let's get down to it.' The 'shot' is a punch from 'dukes' (aka fists). But anyway, she can do what she wants, it's her song.
This has got to be parody.
Cancel Culture now includes cancelling yourself. 🤯
Wow...How silly. Imma blast this song everyday now! Fire away baby!! Lmfao 😂
This is the Babylon Bee right? This can't be true?
benatargiraldo oooooh Big Deal. Will Pat Benatar also reject any royalties she receives because of “hit me with your best shot”. PatBenatar
I never thought of guns while listening to that song. Maybe it's just me?
Completely ridiculous. I recently bought tickets in large part to hear her sing HER SIGNATURE SONG. The song is about toughness and resilience, not gun violence. “Fire away” is an idiom. How can she sing “Love is a Battlefield” given the suffering caused by the War in Ukraine?
That's ridiculous! It could mean something or nothing. Depends on the listener. People I used to run around with thought it meant a guy giving his best shot with a girl.
get woke, go broke. I cant even name another song by her.
fine with me, its literally her song, she can do with it as she pleases.
She gets to virtue signal and a bump in her sales.
But did any of your brilliant musicologists remind her that the song has nothing to to do with guns, and was written by a man?
Pretty dumb. But today dumb is King.
Well, they’re sick of that song to begin with.
That's just stupid. These people are getting ridiculous. Her not singing the song is not going to do squat for anybody.
I have been a huge fan of Pat Benatar since 1982. The song has nothing to do with guns. What is she going on about? Just more 'woke' garbage and falling into the mob. So disappointing. Nobody has guts anymore.
Oh my God this is so dumb. This is some bullshit to get free press for her tour. The song has NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. No one has said ANYTHING ABOUT THIS.
Perhaps she can just replace 'shot' with 'fart'?
This is the only logical response, given the invention of the firearm in 2022.
What other songs did she sing? Can't recall any...
Like the Stones dropping Satisfaction
Oh good grief!!
I also dropped the phrase, “I’m killin’ it” when playing golf.
Love is a Battlefield? Stop the virtue signaling already.
She's been saying for years that she's tired of singing it.
she's also made it clear long ago that she loathes that song with the fire of a thousand suns.
Please tell me she did not do something so ridiculous.
OK, yes I love the song its a great 'rocker' and yes, 'shot' has many different meanings - but as long as she's the one who's deciding not to sing it, and Not someone else Telling her she Can't sing it...I have no problem with it...I believe its called Freedom.
Is this a joke?
Idiot
Well shit! That’s my favorite song so guess I’ll just go karaoke somewhere while it’s still available to sing instead of attend her concert.
Pat has a long history of hating this song. She's often spoken how sick of it she was because it was overplayed everywhere. Not a surprise she'd remove it from her set list.
Good for her!
Pat Benetar’s first headline in 35 years.
Pandering is strong in America
Does Cher ever sing BANG BANG( my baby shot me down) anymore?
Old act looking for attention
Why is everything so relentlessly stupid?
I guess she wont drive to her current tours in a car out of respect for victims of drunk drivers.
On dear god 🤣🤦♀️
So shes dropping the song she's most known for and making an announcement because she needs attention? Ironically now that she's not playing that song there's no reason to see her in concert.
Pat comes from an era of compassion and awareness. Kind of foreign to young ears.
🤡
Spare us this crap.
Lol this is beyond parody So, so, so dumb
About fucking time....the one common denominator in all these horrific mass shootings? The shooters all said it was 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' that pushed them over the edge. ...and we all lived happily ever after!
So f’n stupid!!!
I don't think that will fix the problem!
LAME Way to make tragic headlines about yourself
I remember that song. The connection she’s making is a little like, “enough about me, what do you think of me?”
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