{"id":22331,"date":"2022-07-22T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pat-benatar-refuses-to-sing-hit-me-with-your-best-shot-after-mass-shootings\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:20:43","slug":"pat-benatar-refuses-to-sing-hit-me-with-your-best-shot-after-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pat-benatar-refuses-to-sing-hit-me-with-your-best-shot-after-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Benatar refuses to sing ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ after mass shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pat Benatar is refusing to perform her hit 1980 song \u201cHit Me With Your Best Shot\u201d in the wake of the horrific mass shootings across America this year.<\/p>\n
Speaking to USA Today, the rock singer said she will avoid performing the track during her current tour in \u201cprotest\u201d of gun violence.<\/p>\n
Instead, the 69-year-old singer will perform her other classics, including \u201cLove Is A Battlefield\u201d and \u201cWe Belong.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year alone, the country has high-profile gun-related attacks, in places such as Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York; and Highland Park, Illinois.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re not doing ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ and fans are having a heart attack,\u201d Benatar told the outlet. \u201cAnd I’m like, I’m sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I’m not singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benatar said if people want to hear the song, they should simply \u201cgo home and listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the song \u201cis tongue in cheek, but you have to draw the line.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI 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 soap box \u2013 I go to my legislators,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cThat’s my small contribution to protesting. I’m not going to sing it. Tough.\u201d<\/p>\n