Pat Benatar Won’t Perform ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ Anymore Due To Mass Shootings

Green Day invited a 10-year-old fan on-stage to perform with them during their recent headline show at Outside Lands festival.The rock trio topped the bill at the three-day San Francisco event last Saturday (August 6), delivering a career-spanning 22-track set on the Lands End main stage.At one point in the gig, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong singled out a young crowd member called Montgomery – who the singer nicknamed Monty – and asked him to join Green Day for a special performance.“Do you really know how to play?” Armstrong questioned Montgomery. “Alright, kid – get your ass up here!”Today (August 11), Green Day shared footage of the moment on social media.

Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30, while recovering from pnuemonia.

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In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and elsewhere, gun reform continues to be a constant point of debate in the U.S., many are now advocating for red flag laws. But, in an interview with NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted that flagging signs of violence can be a bit hard for the DOJ.Though the interview was largely about the ongoing investigations into former president Donald Trump and others surrounding the events of Jan.

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Pat Benatar is taking a stand. The rock singer, 69, shared in a new interview that she will no longer be performing her hit song, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," on her current tour with husband Neil Giraldo. "If we don’t play them, you’ll give us (a hard time)," she told USA Today.

USA Today. "And I'm like, I'm sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I'm not singing it."Although the song doesn't encourage gunplay, the 69-year-old said, "You have to draw the line."An unapologetic Pat said fans can "go home and listen to [the song]" if they really want to hear it. "I can't say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can't.

Pat Benatar has said she will no longer perform her hit song ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ out of respect for the families of the victims of mass shootings that have occurred in America this year.In an interview with USA Today surrounding her current tour, Benatar, 69, said that though the song’s title is “tongue-in-cheek”, a line has to be drawn. “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.

If you’re seeing Pat Benatar in concert this year, don’t expect her to sing the hit song “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticOn her current tour, impending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Pat Benatar is singing what she calls “the holy 14 — songs that if we don’t play them,” the audience will rebel. But not among those 14, surprisingly, is one of her best-known hits, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” And Benatar allows that she has gotten some fan pushback on that, but she’s not giving in.Her reason for dropping it from the show? Any possible literal connotations of the metaphoric lyrics in the strictly-for-fun classic rock tune, which she feels are inappropriate to sing in public in a time of multiple mass shootings.“We’re not doing ‘Hit Me With Your Best shot,’ and fans are having a heart attack,” she said in a new interview with USA Today.

MONSTA X are one of the headliners for Nickelodeon’s first-ever music festival.The American television channel recently announced that they will be holding NickFest at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on October 22 and 23. Nickelodeon has also announced the line-up of acts set to perform on the show, with MONSTA X and The Kid LAROI set to headline the event.Other acts set to perform at the event include Alec Benjamin, Beabadoobee, Joshua Bassett and Tomorrow x Together collaborator Salem Ilese.A post shared by NickFest (@nickfest_live)According to the announcement, tickets for NickFest will go on sale to the general public on July 26, 10AM PT.

Errol Musk, has been asked to donate his sperm to several South American women — just days after he confirmed that he squired a secret second lovechild with his own stepdaughter. The lusty patriarch, 76, says his seed is currently coveted by a company in Colombia because it contains the same genius genes that made the world’s richest man. “I’ve got a company who want me to donate sperm to impregnate high-class women,” Errol claimed in the Sun.

Limp Bizkit have postponed their upcoming 2022 UK and European tour due to frontman Fred Durst’s “personal health concerns”.The band were set to play four shows this September, including two gigs at London’s Brixton Academy, in support of recent album ‘Still Sucks’.They have now announced that their frontman Durst has been advised to take an “immediate break from touring” by a medical profession, and that the dates will be rescheduled.Durst and the band wrote: “For personal health concerns and based on medical advice given by my personal physician to take an immediate break from touring, Limp Bizkit will sadly have to postpone their 2022 Uk and European tour.“We truly apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to our loyal fans, promoters and support staff. Stand by for further news.

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