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“The song is laden with sexual innuendo, but at the core is a song about self confidence. You better make sure you put me in my place Of breaking little hearts like the one in meīefore I put another notch in my lipstick case Well you’re a real tough cookie with a long history The song was included on Benatar’s 1980 album, Crimes of Passion and charted #9 on the US Billboard charts. “Before I put another notch in your lipstick case,” was changed to “MY lipstick case.” This tiny change meant a lot for the female demographic- and was an overlooked power stance. Eventually Benatar recorded the song but not without changing some lyrics first. The engineer, John Rhys, invited me to dinner the last night to cheer me up and at dinner he passed me over a little cassette and said, ‘they told me to erase the song and I had to because they’re my biggest client, but I made one copy of the song for you because I knew how much you loved the song.’ “Īccording to Schwartz, Pat Benatar was in the office next door to the producers who were listening to the demo- and she could hear the music through the wall. ” I was about to get on a plane to go back to Toronto and I was so dejected that my favorite song had been recorded and then erased. One of those songs was, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” What happened next was a bittersweet testament to musicianship. He created his demo, which featured 4 songs. Once he had a title, the songwriter signed on with the publishing company ATV (Beatles catalogue). Maybe I should go back,” states Schwartz. Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar Album: Crimes Of Passion TrStandard Tuning Capo on the 4th fret Chords: C: x32010 F: x33211 or 133211 Am: x02210 G: 320003 or 320033 (To play without a capo replace the chords above by E, A, Cm & B) Intro C F Am G C F Am G F G x 2 Verse C Well you're the real tough. I haven’t been to therapy before or since. It all seemed kind of strange, but I remember walking outside of this therapy session and standing on the doorstep of the building I’d been in, this small house in Toronto, and the title just came to me,Hit Me With Your Best Shot…. 8x8 framed photo matte reprint of a Katie Eichenbergers painting based on Pat Benatars song Hit Me With Your Best Shot. I went to a session where we punched the pillows for a while. One of the things we did was punch pillows, I guess it had something to do with getting out hostility.
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“I was in a kind of weird therapy when I was in my mid-20s, it was called bio-energetics, I believe.