"Shot in the Dark" was the first single off of the band's most recent album, "Power Up." Guitarist Angus Young told Ultimate Classic Rock that the album is AC/DC in all the ways fans love the most. "As soon as it starts up, straight away, it's AC/DC. And that's what we've always been about."

Per The Harvard Crimson, the song is a nostalgic trip back to a simpler — albeit not necessarily quieter — time, immersing "listeners in the height of '80s debauchery and rock mythology, where rockstars would spend the nights partying without a care."

With lyrics like "A shot in the dark/Make it feel alright/A shot in the dark/All through the whole night" (via Song Facts), it's not hard to see that the song definitely hearkens back to an AC/DC of years past. The phrase "a shot in the dark" is generally akin to making a guess without knowing what might happen, but the title has more than one meaning, as Angus Young told Rolling Stone, "The title is a little bit cheeky because we all like a little nip [of alcohol] in the night or a few shots in the dark."