Love Is a Battlefield

[tires screeching] You're listening to Vinyl on Chrome, and I'm Dylan Stone.

Now, Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield, proof that in the '80s even getting dumped required a full military strategy.

Mike Chapman and Holly Knight wrote it as a slow, almost sleepy ballad.

Then Neil Giraldo heard it and basically said, "Yeah, let's wake this thing up." He threw on that Linn drum beat, sped it up, and the record company reportedly hated it.

Decades later, it's still showing up in movies, TV, and even other songs.

Can't beat that, baby.

Here's Pat Benatar, Love Is a Battlefield.

Vinyl on Chrome.

Hello, this is me.

But I am going with "Love Is A Battlefield" by Pat Benatar.

And if you-

I mean, yeah

It's all good.

We're-- I gotcha.

Um, anyway, "Love Is A Battlefield."

Yeah.

It is so important to my teenage years.

And then Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar with a callback at the end.

Th- this is probably half the budget of the movie.

Home run.

And it has, like, this silhouette that moves really well when she's doing the dance.

The funny thing about the dance, I just don't think she's very good at it.

Like, she's much better when she does Love Is a Battlefield dancing on the bed later in the movie, but she looks, like, awkward and stiff.

And there's-

I'll start naming Christopher Nolan movies right now.

Love is a Battlefield.

I'll tell the story about that Chris Farley movie right now if you don't stop.

Okay? Don't you dare.

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in "Love Is a Battlefield-

Yes

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