Remember that video for “Love is a Battlefield” in which Pat gets thrown out of the house at the tender age of thirty-two (it’s never really explained why, one suspects it was a haircut issue), grabs a Greyhound from her home in Appleton Wisconsin to the bright lights of post-industrial Chicago, becomes a dime-a-dance girl, then unifies her fellow Mad Max dressed call-girl friends against their oppressor – the evil Saturday Night Fever gold-tooth Guido/pimp guy – in a rebellious boob shakin’ dance number?
Remember? They must have played it once an hour when I was a kid.
To this very day, whenever I hear “Love is a Battlefield” on the radio when they reach a certain point in the song, I still in my head involuntarily hear somebody shout “Leave me alone!” just like it was in the video.
Hehe, no it’s not. When I had access to all kinds of mixing equipment in my last job, I made a mix of that sond containing excerpts from the video. The video version is longer and has an instrumental part. I still listen to it once in a while, and yes, I hear “leave me alone!”
Reminds me of years ago when I was living in this Christian household and I came in the front door singing Pat Benatar’s “Hell is for Children” while a prayer meeting was going on.
> Pat Benatar’s real name is Patricia Andrezejewski. Just
> so you know.
Well, sort of. She was born Patricia Andrzejewski (note the spelling), but she didn’t change her name because she thought Benatar was a cool name for a rock star. She acquired that name at 18 when she married her first husband, Dennis Benatar.
