Pat Benatar's "Innamorata" came 20 years into her long-lived career, and when I interviewed her for Billboard in 1998 for an Artists & Music 
piece in Billboard, she was obviously ready to move toward a more organic sound post-80s' hits: "This is like night and day compared to the first album," she said. "This was a conscious, organic thing. The lyrics are age-appropriate. We definitely didn't want to go backwards."
Before that, in 1997, I interviewed Benatar—who tuned 58 on Monday—for my AirWaves column and we focused more on the past. When I wrote my final column in 1998, I deemed her "Best '80s Quote" and remarked on the fact that she laughed irreverently through much of the interview.I wrote in the column, "The lady laughed her ass off and giggled irreverently at her own past. Regarding her infamous videoclip for 'Love Is A Battlefield,' she commented, 'It took them 15 hours a day for two days to get me not to fuck up. I think I had to do it a billion times. By the time we were finished, even my toenails were crippled.'"
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