I managed to do 2 weeks of Music Video Friday without posting a video from the Eighties! So I think it’s time to post this 80’s classic: Pat Benatar’s Love Is A Battlefield. Get your shoulder shimmy shake ready!
I wouldn’t say that Pat Benatar was a favorite singer of mine growing up, although I did like several of her songs. As far as female singers go, I was more of a Heart fan. Although, looking up Pat Benatar’s songs now for this post, there are some good ones I’d forgotten about. Shadows Of The Night! Invincible! Maybe I need a Best Of!
Love Is A Battlefield, released in September 1983, reached number one in the U.S. charts (while only reaching 17 in the U.K. Boo!). Anyway, the video was one of the staples of MTV’s early days. Remember when MTV was good?!? No, most of you are too young but, trust me, MTV used to be the greatest damn thing EVER. It was all MUSIC. Man I miss those days. I’ll never forget being outside my house at the age of about ten when the cute neighbor boy ran out of his house & shouted at me “Thriller is on MTV!!!!!” and then ran back into his house like a maniac. Lol. God he was adorable…
Where was I? Oh! Pat Benatar! I love how Eighties videos so often had cheesy little melodramatic stories. So… Pat Benatar runs away from her parents even though she looks about 30 then ends up some weird kind of dancing hooker or something. But she’s able to escape her pimp by doing an angry shoulder shimmy shake at him! Take that, you nasty dancing pimp! I’d love to be a superhero where my superpower was the shoulder shimmy shake. How awesome would that be?! You have to admit it’s less lame than an Ant-Man. The logo could be like Superman’s but with a triple S instead of just the one S. I like it! I’d photoshop that if I was any good at that sort of thing!
Well, this post has kind of gone off track. Here’s the video but I’d be very surprised if there’s anyone who has never seen this work of art. Ah, the good old days! 🙂
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I love Pat Benatar! I spent all day yesterday singing We Belong. Mostly because someone brought up Talladega Nights, hahah! But my coworkers now think I’m nuts
That’s awesome – I loved We Belong! I should be your co-worker instead – I wouldn’t think you’re nuts! 🙂
That would be AWESOME!
Also, this song always reminds me of 13 Going on 30
Haha! Oh yeah!!! I really like that movie. 🙂
Me too!
This song is a guilty pleasure.
Hehe. Cool! It is for me too… 😉
Love, love, love Pat Benatar!
Yay! Glad to hear from some fans. My music video posts don’t usually get many comments! Lol. Looks like I’m not the only one who loves 80’s videos. 🙂
Not my fav, but pretty catchy.
All 80’s songs are catchy! Lol 😉
Love her, the song, and the music video. All classics of a distinct period of time and music.
Glad to hear from so many fans of this one. This period of time will always be special to me! 🙂
I love watching these now that I’m old and a father. Turns out your parents were totally right, Pat, you dummy. You should have known that since you and your mom are the same age.
I know! Right?! I just looked up her age & it turns out she really was 30 at the time. Ha! At least she doesn’t look 40 like Cyndi Lauper does in Girls Just Want To Have Fun, I guess…
Maybe her dad brought up the fact that she graduated college 9 years ago and maybe it was time to get a job and she stormed out.
Well I guess she showed him – she became a dancing hooker with the best shoulder shimmy shake around! 🙂
Well she moved out and got a job, just like he wanted.
But she left her pimp at the end so I guess she’s unemployed again. She’ll have to move back in with her brother who looks like her son…
Maybe it’s Utah and she’s actually one of the wives and she became unhappy with the arrangement.
I just looked it up and Pat Benetar is only 5 years younger than Trey Wilson, who plays her dad.
Ah! That must be it! And she’s able to leave her son since there are plenty of other wives to look after him! She could try to get a job playing a teenager in Grease… Hey – I should do Papa Don’t Preach next week where Madonna has to tell her dad that she’s a knocked up 30-year-old!
My wife was 30 when our daughter was born, it really tore her family apart.
Oh dear – Thirtysomething pregnancy is a growing problem in today’s society!
I love Pat Benatar! Have you heard her rendition of Harry Chapin’s “Shooting Star”? She performed it a tribute concert for him after his passing. Here’s the link on YouTube:
Hope you love it as much as I do!
Wow – lots of Pat Benatar fans! Cool. 🙂 No – I’ve not heard that. I’ll be back later to have a listen & comment again. (I’ll have to come out of the app to check the link. I hate the WordPress app!)
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the song.
Okay – I’ve just watched it. That was great! Benatar really has a voice on her! I’m thinking I really should get a Best Of of her hits… Thanks for the link! 🙂
You’re welcome.
Pat Benatar fans should check out the 1980 movie Union City. The movie stars Debbie Harry and Pat has a small part as Jeanette Florescue.
Ohh… I’m going to go look it up right now! I’ve not heard of it. Thanks! 🙂
Nobody beats a Cyndi Lauper. No one Mutey.
Hehe. Cyndi Lauper fan, Tom?? 😉 Cyndi rules! You know my old self loves my 80’s Cyndi Lauper as well! 🙂
Hey, girls just wanna have fun.
Yes. Yes we do. 🙂
Finally something I’ve heard of!!
God – remember when MTV was about videos??? I remember when it first came on and we were all WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH. The last time I looked at it there was MTV3 that still played rock like Mushroomhead and Slipknot…. then they changed it to rap and I never went back…..
True story – I’ve never met her but my friend is her cousin and she played here recently and people that are my friends who I never see anymore but live on Facebook showed in pics with her…
OMG! We’ve found a common link! lol. Yay old-days MTV with awesome videos instead of a bunch of wankers in stupid “reality” shows! 🙂 Who the hell are Mushroomhead? Remember Headbanger’s Ball???? That’s as it was starting to turn too rap so us metalheads could only see our stuff on Headbanger’s Ball! (Although I liked some rap, too. The old school stuff, at least. Don’t knock it, dude!). 😉 lol – Whoa – that’s like six degrees of separation between you & Pat Benatar, man. 🙂
I love Hit Me With Your Best Shot… except after hearing it paired with misheard lyrics of Hit Me With Your Pet Shark that’s all I can hear.
Yep! That’s a great song too. Lol! Now that’s all I’ll hear too! Hmm… Would be a good song for one of the Sharknado movies. 🙂
Sorry 😅
love this video! so glad u finally came around to posting 80’s music. I also use to love watching MTV when it was good, ahhhh, the good old days… 🙂
Duran Duran did the whole silly video story really well also. 🙂
I miss those days of MTV! So good. And so awful now. 😦 Yep – Duran Duran were great as well! It all was. 🙂
I don’t think you were prepared for the Pat love and super support that came up here xD Nice throwback! Post my time, of course, but you know I grew up with plenty older music and still prefer the classics.
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Ha! I totally wasn’t prepared for that! I’ve done a few of these now & was holding off on the 80s videos. Figured no one would be interested in my old person music videos! 🙂
🙂 It seems you were definitely off about that!
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