Pat Benatar Won’t Perform ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ Anymore Due To Mass Shootings

The Red Hot Chili Peppers brought their Global Stadium Tour to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is just outside of New York City.And with the clock ticking until show time, the band's acclaimed bassist Flea was hard to miss with his multi-colored locks as he made his way from his hotel in Manhattan, past eager fans, to his awaiting car for the short ride to the concert.The band's trek around the world is in support of their twelfth and thirteenth studio albums, Unlimited Love and Return Of The Dream Canteen, and marks the return of guitarist John Frusciante back to the group for a second time. Time to rock! Flea, 59, made his way out of his New York City hotel for the short ride to East Rutherford, New Jersey, where his band Red Hot Chili Peppers will play MetLife StadiumThe world-class bass player (born Michael Peter Balzary), 59, stepped out of the hotel wearing light blue shorts and a matching t-shirt, which he will likely shed once the band kicks off into their opening song.Both Flea and vocalist Anthony Kiedis have had a penchant for playing their shows shirtless over the years, and nearly naked on a number of special occasions.

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Pat Benatar is taking a stand. The rock singer, 69, shared in a new interview that she will no longer be performing her hit song, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," on her current tour with husband Neil Giraldo. "If we don’t play them, you’ll give us (a hard time)," she told USA Today.

USA Today. "And I'm like, I'm sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I'm not singing it."Although the song doesn't encourage gunplay, the 69-year-old said, "You have to draw the line."An unapologetic Pat said fans can "go home and listen to [the song]" if they really want to hear it. "I can't say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can't.

Pat Benatar has said she will no longer perform her hit song ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ out of respect for the families of the victims of mass shootings that have occurred in America this year.In an interview with USA Today surrounding her current tour, Benatar, 69, said that though the song’s title is “tongue-in-cheek”, a line has to be drawn. “We’re not doing ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ and fans 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.

If you’re seeing Pat Benatar in concert this year, don’t expect her to sing the hit song “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

Pat Benatar is taking stand against gun violence in the U.S., most notably mass shootings, by eliminating arguably her most famous song from her setlist.In a new interview with USA Today,the rocker revealed she won't be playing Hit Me With You Best Shot while on tour as a form of protest and respect to the victims and their families.'We're not doing Hit Me With Your Best Shot and fans 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,' she told the publication, adding, 'I tell them, if you want to hear the song, go home and listen to it.' Taking a stand: Pat Benatar, 69, announced she's not singing her hit song Hit Me With You Best Shot while on tour this summer as a form of protest and respect to victims of mass shootings; the rocker is seen playing live in Indiana in June 2022Released as a single off of her second studio album, Crimes of Passion (1980), the song went on to become Benatar's first Top 10 hit in the U.S.While the lyrics talk about a man who is a heart-breaker and a potential love interest who challenges him to 'takeyour best shot', Benatar's protest seems to be mainly focused on the lines in the catchy chorus. 'Hit me with your best shot - Why don't you hit me with your best shot - Hit me with your best shot - Fire away,' she defiantly sings in three parts of the song.'[The title] is tongue in cheek, but you have to draw the line.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticOn her current tour, impending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Pat Benatar is singing what she calls “the holy 14 — songs that if we don’t play them,” the audience will rebel. But not among those 14, surprisingly, is one of her best-known hits, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” And Benatar allows that she has gotten some fan pushback on that, but she’s not giving in.Her reason for dropping it from the show? Any possible literal connotations of the metaphoric lyrics in the strictly-for-fun classic rock tune, which she feels are inappropriate to sing in public in a time of multiple mass shootings.“We’re not doing ‘Hit Me With Your Best shot,’ and fans are having a heart attack,” she said in a new interview with USA Today.

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