Pat Benatar: Senile, Stupid, or Desperately Scheming for Free PR?

[Re: “Pat Benatar won’t sing ‘hit me with your best shot’ in wake of mass shootings.”]

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Monday, July 25, 2022 at 2:03:00 PM EDT

Sixty-nine and brain deficient already? Too bad. Cher won’t sing, “Bang, Bang,” probably, McCartney will disavow, “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” and I believe there’s a song with a lyric of, “When the bullet meets the bone”--all those songs the public needs protection from hearing or we’ll all go... NUTS!

Jeezus.

Everyone’s going nuts anyways—don’t these people see this? That censorship and eliminating what amateur psychiatrists like Benatar believe are trigger songs, doesn’t change the reason why one murder is committed these days.

When her song came out, circa 1980, there weren’t mass murders because of “Hit Me….” And there won’t be now. It wasn’t a song about shooting someone.

Rap songs, however, are specifically telling blacks to go commit violence—a clear difference from Benatar’s song.

Why does it even have to be explained?

--GRA

Jerry PDX
Monday, July 25, 2022 at 2:12:00 P.M. EDT

Does this mean that Eric Clapton won’t play “I Shot the Sheriff” anymore? Warren Zevon can’t play “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”? Oh wait...he’s dead, so he can’t play it, anyway. Well, then nobody should cover it. No “Gimme Back My Bullets” or “Mr. Saturday Night Special” by what’s left of Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Does Benatar seriously think that anybody is laying awake at night worrying about song lyrics that use guns as a metaphor for relationship conflict?