Pat Benatar won't sing 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' in wake of mass shootings
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Pat Benatar will no longer sing her classic, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," on tour in response to mass shootings. "I can’t say those words out loud with a smile on my face."
Janelle Ash is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
"If we don’t play them, you’ll give us (a hard time)," she told USA Today. "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.’"
In the wake of recent mass shootings, Benatar said she just can't perform the tune from her album "Crimes of Passion," telling fans, "If you want to hear the song, go home and listen to it"
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