Pat Benetar-In The Heart of The Night (1979)

Okay. I will always be the first to admit my love for Pat Benetar. I mean, what. a. babe. My uncle grew up on the same block as her in Linderhurst, Long Island and even as a young child I thought that was the COOLEST thing ever. I mean Pat was no where near my beloved Spice Girls, but at the time she was a close second in my heart. But seriously folks, Pat Benetar rules. I know what you're thinking...why should you or I care about some pop diva who directly caters to the soundtrack of your father's backyard summer barbecues? Pat Benetar may not have been the most interesting artist of the 1980s, nor was she the best. But her songs were catchy. Although not the first female artist to utilize hard rock or punk, Pat Benetar was able to break into the mainstream with her 1979 hit "Heartbreaker". A chick on the top of the charts with a pop song about female empowerment and independence that had an extended guitar solo?! That's pretty cool. Hey, I know, Pat was mostly a corporate puppet who's style and substance was basically engineered to be a hit. I mean she barely even wrote her own songs on her first few albums. But her charisma, voice and style really separated her from other female pop singers in the 1980s and today.


I mean come on, Pat Benetar is a lot more of a Suzi Quatro then an Avril Lavigne.