Pat Benatar: Love Is a Battlefield (1983 Music Video) User Reviews

Wonderful pop rock hit and fine music video that goes along with it.

[blanbrn · 8/10 · 2 December 2021]

Was a Benatar fan and I remember this big hit growing up in 1983 it was called "Love Is a Battlefield" and those words ring so true and the music video goes along with this song so well. It features Pat as a young girl going away from home and mom and dad to the big city to get started and along the way she's sidetracked into an early world of working at a club as a dancer. Only soon Pat takes charge and stands up and fights for love, respect, and pride! Hey everything is a battlefield! Well done music video.

Love is a battlefield

[safenoe · 10/10 · 29 April 2024]

I remember watching Pat Benatar's video Love is a Battlefield when it debuted in 1983, just one year before the L. A. Olympics, and in the same year that The A-Team debuted. Anyway, it's amazing to recall that Love is a Battlefield debuted over 40 years ago, wow, that long ago, and it endures for sure. The video tells an emotional story, being directed by Bob Giraldi. Pat Benatar plays the runaway teenager (I learned on the internet that she was 30 at the time), and Trey Wilson played the father. I sometimes wondered whether the teenager in the video managed to make peace with her father init.

Pretentious 80s pop song, all make-believe

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 26 August 2017]

These five minutes we got here are the music video for the song "Love Is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar and I believe this is a failure for several reasons. The singer's voice is absolutely nothing special at all. The song isn't catchy. The music video has nothing really to do with love, if anything then with friendship. The way singing and talking was combines in this early scene when the girl loves her home was really badly done. The girl just arrives at some dance club, but quickly becomes the star there nonetheless and all the other chicks really like her. She also becomes the leader and helps in getting rid of their chauvinist boss. So did they all leave in the end? They sure must be happy to be unemployed, especially as they don't have the star potential of the girl in the center of the action. Looking at this one I am not surprised how forgotten and irrelevant Benatar is these days, especially if this is even among her most known. This wasn't even a mediocre work. It was unrealistic pretentious garbage from start to finish and I feel sorry for the certainly many girls Benatar managed to fool back in the 1980s with this music video because they weren't able to see through this mess. Highly not recommended.