Pat Benatar is in the rock and roll pantheon. She was one of the first rock solo woman artists, leading the way for artists like Avril Lavigne, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande, to name a few. And she still tours today with her husband and guitar player. There is a great video of Pat singing "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Oprah show and bringing out Avril after the first verse. It was near the beginning of Avril's career, and she is so nervous. Some of the comments are people claiming Avril had no stage presence. Please. She's standing next to Pat freaking Benatar, singing one of her biggest hits. Anyone would be nervous. Another great video is Pat singing a duet with Martina McBride on Martina's song "Independence Day", and Martina has a look of "Pat Benatar is singing MY song. OMG!" Another wonderful suggestion for a Pat Benatar song is "Hell is for Children". This is about child abuse and she I think she has only ever missed performing it at her concerts once or twice in all her years of touring. It is a powerful and important song to her. Congrats on discovering the rock goddess, Pat Benatar.
I can remember my friends dancing to this at the Friday night after the football game dances. We all wanted to be Pat Benatar. After I became a mom, I realized what the video was about. The need to help the runaways. I realize that what she showed was a mild version, but it does get ones attention. Thanks for bringing back some memories of days gone by.
@@momojojo590 Yeah, I do too. I bought "The Legend of Billie Jean" on Blu-ray for $5 at Walmart a few years ago. It was the last copy too. So I can watch it anytime I want.
I listen to this when i think about my long time crush, when he came back into my life years later, what was a dream, became a nightmare, his "love" hurt and, it really was a battlefield. When you're hurting, Pat Benatar is who you listen to. 80s music and country music is for heartbreak.
Here's an interesting fact: whenever someone riff on this video (i.e. Beavis & Butthead) and saying that Pat's running away and she's 30, well she was actually 30 when this video was made. And the part were the guy was looking at Pat outside wearing the baseball cap and short was choreographer Michael Peters who also choreographed Beat It and Thriller with Michael Jackson, which the former is directed by Bob Giraldi who also directed the Love Is A Battlefield video.
Music videos are a double-edged sword. So often the song itself, it's lyrics, melody, performance, voice, musicianship get lost in "I love her hairstyle" or "70s fashion - what a joke" or whatever catches the eye in the video. Pat Benatar is a powerhouse. Hit Me With Your Best Shot and so much more.
Pat Benatar and her husband/lead guitarist Neil Gerardo have been making music since the late '70's. She is an incredible vocalist, but her husband is also a guitar god. I really prefer most of her earlier more rock and roll stuff, especially 'Promises in the Dark', 'Fire and Ice', and 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot'. They feature both quite impressively.
To tie in...Tina Turner - Tiny Dancer. I listened to everything Pat! But, i was 17, disowned, homeless because I got pregnant. The video is still hard to watch.
This video reflected a period in time when there used to be places where you paid for dances. You had to buy tickets and present it to the girl of your choice to dance with. Most of these places eventually started selling lap dances, which led to private dance rooms. Another way for sex workers, whereas the “ house “ would get paid for the use of the room.
Well, I'm one of your old followers (53) and this song came out when I was in school. This was one of those songs about the ones that are supposed to love you the most hurts you the most, instead. So, needless to say, it was a powerful breakup song.
This came out when I was in high school and it's one of my favorite songs by her. I will play it when I'm questioning the love of my familythe separations we had through many years of my life as a child through teens. Love is a battlefield in many ways. "Invincible" by Part Benatar from the Billy Jean movie is another favorite. Also you said her name exactly right 👍
Love is a Battlefield - The times that I put it on was when bouncing back and forth between my recently divorced parents. I felt that it wasn't necessarily romantic love, but family love and trying to find the love between the mortar shells of hate and destruction that was my parent's disintegrating relationship.
I have listened to her every since I can remember I am a true fan of Pat Benatar and yes you said her name right. I love your videos.Please play her Heart Breaker.
i loved this song since i was a kid, even though the video is dark the song to me is sort of an anthem, especially with the end of the video where they all rise up against the pimp.
I recorded this song onto a cassette tape from the radio back in elementary school - yes, I'm old! As I got older, I would play it when I was going through a breakup. It always made me feel better to think that other women felt the same way I did - love is a battlefield, but we are strong and will make it through. Didn't see the video until years later (lived in the boonies so no cable = no MTV) so didn't know what the song was really about until I did. It got a whole new meaning then.
WOW! ITS FINALY HERE, CHRISTMAS HAS ARRIVED EARLY! so mark this day in history,email your love ones,go sing on the mountian top,sweet jesus,it's a miracle,be sure to subscribe,and now i can take it off my bucket list,and die happy , Billy got the name right. Now how about fire and ice or promises in the dark.🇨🇦😄
Hey Billy, I was 16 when this song came out in 1983 and Pat Benatar was huge. However, after a few years she had to quit singing to take care of her husband who was deathly ill. She came back in 2005 and remastered this song. She is actually trained as a Opera singer and you can tell by her vocals especially in other songs she has done that she would have to be in order to hit some of the notes she hit....her range is crazy!!!
Tripple OG here. *LOL* this was the song you would throw on when dad and mom and all your friends tell you he s no good, and he does something to prove them right but you arent going to let it go down like that.
I feel this is more female empowerment kinda vibe! He thought he could just move right on in her dance and she was all like "You feel what I'm putting down? If not dance your ass right on out that door!".lo
Pat Benatar is my absolute favorite artist of all time. I am 1000% not lyin'. Every one of her songs has played a part in my life at one point. Her voice is amazing and a 4 octave range!!! Hubby Neil (aka Spyder) is one of rocks best guitarist. Favorite song??? "Fight it Out" and "Girl"
Of course, back then, I didn't have a lot of Records or cassette tapes. So on the rare occasion that I did have a tape to spare (to record music on) I'd play it when I was angry and upset.
Mike Chapman and Holly Knight wrote Love Is a Battlefield. The demo they recorded was a ballad. However, Pat Benatar along with her husband, producer and guitarist Neil Giraldo got to this song, they changed it completely, introducing drum machines to have a more pop sound, which wasn't Pat Benatar's style of music at the time. When Mike Chapman and Holly Knight heard Pat Benatar's final version, they were not amused at all. They thought Pat Benatar had destroyed their song! Pat Benatar recounts this is in her autobiography. What did they know? Love Is a Battlefield got to #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 making it into Pat Benatar's most successful song along with We Belong. The video certainly helped a lot as it received heavy rotation on MTV. In regards of the music video, Love Is a Battlefield was the first music video that had the song altered to fit in dialogue.
Pat is a legend. And you pronounced her name exactly the right way. You should also do "Invincible" by her. She really didn't like it being in the movie "Legend of Billie Jean" but it fits so well.
I watched this video and loved this song at around age of 5 age. I also thought what pretty outfits they wore. Didn't realize how their lives were. Mtv.
You've 100% heard this song before. It's the song that all the girls were singing along to in the sleepover scene of "13 Going on 30". That movie was where my love for Pat Benatar came from. Other songs from her that I really love are Hit Me With Your Best Shot, We Belong, and Heartbreaker. Yo6 shoupd check them out! 🤗
That was NY's Times Square in the 80s. Pre-Disneyfication. Pat Benatar is originally from Long Island, a suburb of NYC. This depicts her rejecting her parents' suburban lifestyle and heading to the city. The action is mostly her fantasy, as she's sitting on the bus on her way to a new life. It's about the growth of women's empowerment and claim on their right to be sexual without needing anyone's permission. And to control their own bodies instead of going with a guy just because he wants her. Song was released in 1983, the same year as Madonna's first hit, "Holiday," and one year before Cyndi Lauper's first hit, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." But Pat Benatar was an established star from the 1970s before either Madonna or Lauper's first hits were released. Benatar and Lauper were both from the NYC area; Madonna was originally from Michigan, but moved to NYC to do her dancing, then singing. Benatar was originally trained to sing opera, but turned to rock instead, and is one of the few female rock icons. Check out the movie "Desperately Seeking Susan," from the 1980s (featuring Madonna) to get the tone of the time and place. I was in my late 20s at the time, moved from Long Island into the city, following the same path they did (not in show biz, just as a life choice). It was quite a time and place.
Every time I see this video, I just remember the "Literal Video Version" of it. If you haven't seen that, definitely look it up. Same with the songs "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart". They take the original music video, and just replace all the lyrics with whatever is shown in the video. They're pretty hilarious, and catchy.
I don't claim to be an OG, but I have earned my stripes. 14 years in the Marine Corps, 4 years homeless on the streets. And I can tell you in 1994 when I was broken up with by "the one" at 15, this song was on a lot.
The fact Pat Benatar isn't in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame is pure B.S.
I totally agree.
Truth!
same with jethro tull
she isn't? wow!!!!!
@@514relaxmode She was nominated but didn't get enough votes to make the 2019 class
Pat Benatar is in the rock and roll pantheon. She was one of the first rock solo woman artists, leading the way for artists like Avril Lavigne, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande, to name a few. And she still tours today with her husband and guitar player. There is a great video of Pat singing "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Oprah show and bringing out Avril after the first verse. It was near the beginning of Avril's career, and she is so nervous. Some of the comments are people claiming Avril had no stage presence. Please. She's standing next to Pat freaking Benatar, singing one of her biggest hits. Anyone would be nervous. Another great video is Pat singing a duet with Martina McBride on Martina's song "Independence Day", and Martina has a look of "Pat Benatar is singing MY song. OMG!"
Another wonderful suggestion for a Pat Benatar song is "Hell is for Children". This is about child abuse and she I think she has only ever missed performing it at her concerts once or twice in all her years of touring. It is a powerful and important song to her.
Congrats on discovering the rock goddess, Pat Benatar.
I can remember my friends dancing to this at the Friday night after the football game dances. We all wanted to be Pat Benatar.
After I became a mom, I realized what the video was about. The need to help the runaways. I realize that what she showed was a mild version, but it does get ones attention.
Thanks for bringing back some memories of days gone by.
High school. She was telling us to stand up for ourselves!✌️😎
Amazing singer ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Omg!!!! “She didn’t blink one time” DUDE I AM ON THE FLOOR!!! Best comment of the day!! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻😝
I love me some Pat Benatar this was popular when I was in high school and I still listen to it to this day I love her voice
Pat Benetar “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll”
You would enjoy Pat and Neal’s love song: We Belong.
Love that song also Heartbreaker is a good one
One of my favourite of hers.
You've got great taste in music
omg my fave!
You want another good song by Pat Benatar? "Invincible" is probably my favorite of hers.
"The Legend of Billie Jean" was the first time I heard that song. I liked the song ever since.
Link From Hyrule - I love Legend of Billie Jean!!
@@momojojo590 Yeah, I do too. I bought "The Legend of Billie Jean" on Blu-ray for $5 at Walmart a few years ago. It was the last copy too. So I can watch it anytime I want.
for a really dark song react to Pat's "Hell is for Children"
YESSSSS
Oof. If your ready for a cry than sure
Par is a classically trained singer. She is amazing. Just saw her in concert a few years back.
College parties. I danced to this a lot. I had all of Pat Benatar’s albums. She was a favorite. Thanks for this.
Love Pat Benatar! And, yes, you are saying it right!! Yay Billy!! Lol
This used to come on the radio and it was played in a lot of the dance clubs I went to. I love the song.
"She looks dead inside"
You should try Tina Turner's "Private Dancer".
Love love love her. Thanks for Sharing. Her song We belong is another good one.
I listen to this when i think about my long time crush, when he came back into my life years later, what was a dream, became a nightmare, his "love" hurt and, it really was a battlefield. When you're hurting, Pat Benatar is who you listen to. 80s music and country music is for heartbreak.
This was one of my favorites songs as a teenager growing up. And I still love it.
I love this woman! Grew up listening to her. My mom is probably her biggest fan and in return I love all her music
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You pronounced it just fine.
Love Pat Benatar!
I've played this one my whole life. I'm a huge Pat Benatar fan!
Yes!!! Please do more Pat! She is every girls’ spirit animal.
I always think of this song in the movie The Legend of Billy Jean.
Caught her in concert a few years ago and she's still slaying it.
One of the greatest rock vocalists of all time.
I used to love her back in the day!
Listen to so much of her music in high school that I'd wear out her cassette tapes, so I'm definitely an O. G.
Same!
Or watched it on MTV when they actually played music videos.
Here's an interesting fact: whenever someone riff on this video (i.e. Beavis & Butthead) and saying that Pat's running away and she's 30, well she was actually 30 when this video was made. And the part were the guy was looking at Pat outside wearing the baseball cap and short was choreographer Michael Peters who also choreographed Beat It and Thriller with Michael Jackson, which the former is directed by Bob Giraldi who also directed the Love Is A Battlefield video.
Music videos are a double-edged sword. So often the song itself, it's lyrics, melody, performance, voice, musicianship get lost in "I love her hairstyle" or "70s fashion - what a joke" or whatever catches the eye in the video.
Pat Benatar is a powerhouse. Hit Me With Your Best Shot and so much more.
I've been a big fan of Pat Benatar since Jr.High and High School. Several years ago I found a CD that had a bonus DVD of all her music videos.
Now even more of you know why she should have this in the Hall of Fame.
Pat Benatar and her husband/lead guitarist Neil Gerardo have been making music since the late '70's. She is an incredible vocalist, but her husband is also a guitar god. I really prefer most of her earlier more rock and roll stuff, especially 'Promises in the Dark', 'Fire and Ice', and 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot'. They feature both quite impressively.
So many great ones- “Fire and Ice” is a favorite!
Played it allllll the time.. it was her voice...beat.. hard hit.. of bad side of life.. SURVIVAL!!! 80S were Awesome
This was my Jam in the 80's!
My all time favorite song by her is Shadows of night. It just ugh I love it to pieces.
Pat was the only one there who wasn't a trained dancer.
When I was a kid I didn't care for her music but as I got older and I seen what an amazing voice she had
Pat Benatar is one of the greatest. She doesn't have a bad song.
I adore Pat benatar I love all her music her strength got me through my teen life and my teen years
To tie in...Tina Turner - Tiny Dancer.
I listened to everything Pat! But, i was 17, disowned, homeless because I got pregnant. The video is still hard to watch.
When you can get to it- Fire & Ice and or Shadows of the night! You said it right!
Fire and Ice, my favorite!
This video reflected a period in time when there used to be places where you paid for dances. You had to buy tickets and present it to the girl of your choice to dance with. Most of these places eventually started selling lap dances, which led to private dance rooms. Another way for sex workers, whereas the “ house “ would get paid for the use of the room.
Tina Turner Private Dancer.. a good one too.
You should do Cyndi Lauper "All Through the Night". I'm digging the 80's stuff! I'm a huge 80's fan and am glad to see other people discover it too.
Well, I'm one of your old followers (53) and this song came out when I was in school. This was one of those songs about the ones that are supposed to love you the most hurts you the most, instead. So, needless to say, it was a powerful breakup song.
Pat is one of the best female rock stars of all time.
FYI .. definitely OG as well ...but fun fact ..same choreographer did Thriller and Beat it for Michael Jackson ..
As an "OG" , I listened to this song when life broke me down....to my core.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the same person who choreographed Thriller did this video too. Good catch.
This came out when I was in high school and it's one of my favorite songs by her. I will play it when I'm questioning the love of my familythe separations we had through many years of my life as a child through teens. Love is a battlefield in many ways. "Invincible" by Part Benatar from the Billy Jean movie is another favorite. Also you said her name exactly right 👍
Love is a Battlefield - The times that I put it on was when bouncing back and forth between my recently divorced parents. I felt that it wasn't necessarily romantic love, but family love and trying to find the love between the mortar shells of hate and destruction that was my parent's disintegrating relationship.
When I listened to this song...when I was a teenager and my Dad and I had conflicts...responding as one of those OGs :) thanks for reacting
This song came out when I was in jr. High in the early 80's
I have listened to her every since I can remember I am a true fan of Pat Benatar and yes you said her name right. I love your videos.Please play her Heart Breaker.
i loved this song since i was a kid, even though the video is dark the song to me is sort of an anthem, especially with the end of the video where they all rise up against the pimp.
I recorded this song onto a cassette tape from the radio back in elementary school - yes, I'm old! As I got older, I would play it when I was going through a breakup. It always made me feel better to think that other women felt the same way I did - love is a battlefield, but we are strong and will make it through. Didn't see the video until years later (lived in the boonies so no cable = no MTV) so didn't know what the song was really about until I did. It got a whole new meaning then.
You should listen to "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by her, its really good!
I heard that the same choreographer that did the Michael Jackson thriller dance did this dance
I love pat!!! I listen to her a lot for just about any mood to be honest. Hell is for children is a dark, dark song, but really good song by her.
WOW! ITS FINALY HERE, CHRISTMAS HAS ARRIVED EARLY! so mark this day in history,email your love ones,go sing on the mountian top,sweet jesus,it's a miracle,be sure to subscribe,and now i can take it off my bucket list,and die happy , Billy got the name right. Now how about fire and ice or promises in the dark.🇨🇦😄
You said her name perfectly!
“Hit me with your best shot” is my favorite Benatar tune.
Hey Billy, I was 16 when this song came out in 1983 and Pat Benatar was huge. However, after a few years she had to quit singing to take care of her husband who was deathly ill. She came back in 2005 and remastered this song. She is actually trained as a Opera singer and you can tell by her vocals especially in other songs she has done that she would have to be in order to hit some of the notes she hit....her range is crazy!!!
I was a teenager when this came out. I often say I dont trust people that don't blink lol
Tripple OG here. *LOL* this was the song you would throw on when dad and mom and all your friends tell you he
s no good, and he does something to prove them right but you arent going to let it go down like that.
Awesome song shes amazing
Put Pat Benatar in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Immediately! If Not Sooner! She earned it 40 years Ago!!!
I feel this is more female empowerment kinda vibe! He thought he could just move right on in her dance and she was all like "You feel what I'm putting down? If not dance your ass right on out that door!".lo
"She ain't blink not one time." -
- BillyYSC 2020
i'm dYIng 😂😂
Pat Benatar is my absolute favorite artist of all time. I am 1000% not lyin'. Every one of her songs has played a part in my life at one point. Her voice is amazing and a 4 octave range!!! Hubby Neil (aka Spyder) is one of rocks best guitarist. Favorite song??? "Fight it Out" and "Girl"
I wasn't old enough, even though I grew up in the 80s. I was just 13 when the 80s ended.
This was the heyday of MTV videos reigned supreme. The 80's were the best
Great song from the past
Pat Benatar has the second video ever played on MTV... You Better Run
I have yet to hear a *bad* Pat Benatar song. (And yeah, you pronounced it right.) :)
And you never will. There's no such thing.
Don't forget MTV ( Music TV and VHI1) showed music videos all day and night. That's why the 80s music all have videos, it was new and fun!
She's 67 now and hasn't changed that much...👴 Kids your age? Grandkids, maybe.
Before she "made it", she used to sing at a restaurant in town. Please, check out more of her songs!
Of course, back then, I didn't have a lot of Records or cassette tapes. So on the rare occasion that I did have a tape to spare (to record music on) I'd play it when I was angry and upset.
Daughtry There and Back Again Regular version and acoustic version
Great choice! Loved since I was a kid.
The "Thriller" girl version! Fantastic song and Benatar's voice!
“Fire and Ice” is great!!! ✌️
Mike Chapman and Holly Knight wrote Love Is a Battlefield. The demo they recorded was a ballad. However, Pat Benatar along with her husband, producer and guitarist Neil Giraldo got to this song, they changed it completely, introducing drum machines to have a more pop sound, which wasn't Pat Benatar's style of music at the time. When Mike Chapman and Holly Knight heard Pat Benatar's final version, they were not amused at all. They thought Pat Benatar had destroyed their song! Pat Benatar recounts this is in her autobiography. What did they know? Love Is a Battlefield got to #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 making it into Pat Benatar's most successful song along with We Belong. The video certainly helped a lot as it received heavy rotation on MTV. In regards of the music video, Love Is a Battlefield was the first music video that had the song altered to fit in dialogue.
I enjoy your humor.
Pat is a legend. And you pronounced her name exactly the right way. You should also do "Invincible" by her. She really didn't like it being in the movie "Legend of Billie Jean" but it fits so well.
Btw, you pronounced her name correctly. You’re one of my favorite reactors. Thanks for your honest reactions.
Yay! Just yay!
You were pronouncing it correctly Billy. No worries. Thank you for reacting to the so g. One of my all time favorites.
You said it right
Was one of the very videos on MTV (when it was about videos and music...and long before Thriller)
I watched this video and loved this song at around age of 5 age. I also thought what pretty outfits they wore. Didn't realize how their lives were. Mtv.
You've 100% heard this song before. It's the song that all the girls were singing along to in the sleepover scene of "13 Going on 30". That movie was where my love for Pat Benatar came from. Other songs from her that I really love are Hit Me With Your Best Shot, We Belong, and Heartbreaker. Yo6 shoupd check them out! 🤗
That was NY's Times Square in the 80s. Pre-Disneyfication. Pat Benatar is originally from Long Island, a suburb of NYC. This depicts her rejecting her parents' suburban lifestyle and heading to the city. The action is mostly her fantasy, as she's sitting on the bus on her way to a new life. It's about the growth of women's empowerment and claim on their right to be sexual without needing anyone's permission. And to control their own bodies instead of going with a guy just because he wants her.
Song was released in 1983, the same year as Madonna's first hit, "Holiday," and one year before Cyndi Lauper's first hit, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." But Pat Benatar was an established star from the 1970s before either Madonna or Lauper's first hits were released. Benatar and Lauper were both from the NYC area; Madonna was originally from Michigan, but moved to NYC to do her dancing, then singing. Benatar was originally trained to sing opera, but turned to rock instead, and is one of the few female rock icons. Check out the movie "Desperately Seeking Susan," from the 1980s (featuring Madonna) to get the tone of the time and place. I was in my late 20s at the time, moved from Long Island into the city, following the same path they did (not in show biz, just as a life choice). It was quite a time and place.
Long Island isn't the suburbs of NYC. It's long Island. Nassau and Suffolk County.
Heartbreaker and fire and ice are two realy good songs of hers
Yes and YES!!
Every time I see this video, I just remember the "Literal Video Version" of it. If you haven't seen that, definitely look it up. Same with the songs "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart". They take the original music video, and just replace all the lyrics with whatever is shown in the video. They're pretty hilarious, and catchy.
Daughtry The Ghost Of Me Quarantine Sessions
You did say her name correctly. Great reaction!
I don't claim to be an OG, but I have earned my stripes. 14 years in the Marine Corps, 4 years homeless on the streets. And I can tell you in 1994 when I was broken up with by "the one" at 15, this song was on a lot.
Wham! - Everything she wants. Its a bop i promise you
You said it right , you're good