Love Is a Battlefield
Love Is a Battlefield is a song by Pat Benatar from the year 1983. Benatar After Mike Chapman was asked to write her a hit, the song of him and Holly Knight was tailored to their needs.
History
Love Is a Battlefield was released in September 1983 and reached the world in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium the first place of the charts. The song was honored at the Grammy Awards in 1984 with the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Love Is a Battlefield is 4:08 minutes long and appeared in the album Live from Earth. On the B - side of the single is the song Hell is for Children.
Music Video
In the music video Pat Benatar plays a young woman who is thrown out for unknown reasons from her parents' house. In a bar she works as a prostitute. As one of her colleagues is beaten by her pimp, Pat goes in between. It follows a long sequence in which the women zutanzen menacingly at the pimps before they leave the bar and say goodbye to each other. Finally, one sees Pat sitting in a bus.