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Hit Me with Your Best Shot

by Star Material

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"This song isn't as heavy as I remember it," I told Katie on a road trip when the original came up on my Spotify shuffle. "These guitars are relatively clean for 1980," I continued. "I guess it's just Pat Benatar's tough voice that really sells it!"

I bet I'm not alone! I hadn't heard the original in over a decade. Vaccinations were just starting and as we drove, I thought it'd be fun and funny to use this song title to encourage people to get vaccinated. Of course, I should've known that the whole thing would get politicized. Worse, by the time we released the single, the Delta variant had begun overwhelming hospitals nationwide. Suddenly our entire marketing plan for the tune seemed to be in bad taste and even media outlets that had been excited cooled off really quickly. It was still timely, but in the worst way.

Fortunately, the video has nothing to do with Covid or vaccines so we just powered right on through and we're so glad that so many people enjoyed it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zaNh6N7F80

-Josh

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released August 10, 2021
Katie O'Neil - vocals
Josh Robins - guitars, bass guitar
Chuck Fischer - drums, drum engineer
Chico Jones - mix

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Star Material Austin, Texas

We make pop rock that sounds like a party on the Millennium Falcon: Catchy like The New Pornographers but sometimes heavy like Metallica, sometimes twangy like Nick Cave. We also love the music of the 50s and 60s.

We believe that we're all just star material having a human experience for a little while and we might as well enjoy it - even when it's not so enjoyable.
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