Remember when Pat Benatar was on MTV all the time?!
This song was a lot of the reason. The video itself tells a story of a 30-year-old teenage runaway leaving home to become a taxi dancer, only to lead a dance rebellion by her fellow taxi dancers and escaping the lifestyle.
No, really. That is the storyline of the video.
It was somewhat groundbreaking because it was one of the first music videos to feature dialog - not THE first, but the first well-known video. It is the Oreo to Phillip Bailey's "I Know" Hydrox.
The song was written by Mike Champan and Holly Knight - each of them hitmaking songwriters - and would become one of Benatar's celebrity-making early hits.
This song was a hit in 1983 and 1984. So, imaging the surprise when she appeared on Austin City Limits in 2024 and brought the SAME LEVEL of energy to the song 40 years after its initial release, at age 71.
I'm not overselling this performance. It's incredible.
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