Hit Me with Your Best Shot

"Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Crimes of Passion
B-side	"Prisoner of Love"
Released	September 15, 1980
Format	7"
Recorded	1979
Genre	Rock, hard rock, heartland rock
Length	2:52
Label	Chrysalis
Writer(s)	Eddie Schwartz
Producer	Keith Olsen

"Hit Me with Your Best Shot" is a song written by Canadian singer/songwriter Eddie Schwartz and recorded by American singer Pat Benatar in 1979. It was released as the second single from her second album Crimes of Passion, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first top 10 hit. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" sold one million copies, achieving a gold certification by the RIAA. The song is arguably Benatar's most recognizable. It can be heard at many baseball and soccer games, and is featured on many of Benatar's greatest hits compilations.

Structure

The song is in E major and features a general chord progression of I-IV-vi-V, with occasional added chords built on passing and neighboring tones, although Benatar has commented that in hindsight she would have preferred to replace the C# minor (vi) chord with F# minor (ii).

Covers

My American Heart covered the song and it was used in a commercial for GameTap. Others to cover the song include Wheatus, Offcutts, Martina McBride, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Chikinki. The song was sampled by D12 in a song of the same name; it was originally made for Eminem's seventh studio album Recovery, released in 2010, but it did not make the final cut. The song has since leaked on the internet, in early 2011. TV show Glee did a mash up of this song with Blondie's "One Way or Another" in its season 3 episode Mash Off.

Video games

• A cover version of the song is a playable track in the game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, while the original master track is playable in Guitar Hero On Tour for the Nintendo DS and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits for consoles.

• This song is available on the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition for the Sony PlayStation 2 and PSP.

• This song also is a downloadable song in the Rock Band series, and is playable in Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock.