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Bad Romance

April 15, 2024

For other uses, see Bad Romance (disambiguation).

"Bad Romance" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third extended play (EP), The Fame Monster (2009)—the reissue of her debut studio album, The Fame (2008). Gaga wrote and produced the song with RedOne. Following an unauthorized demo leak, Gaga premiered the song's final version during the finale of Alexander McQueen's 2010 Paris Fashion Week show in October 2009 and released it as the lead single from The Fame Monster later that month. Musically, it is an electropop and dance-pop song with a spoken bridge. Inspired by German house and techno, the song was developed as an experimental pop record. Lyrically, Gaga drew from the paranoia she experienced while on tour and wrote about her attraction to unhealthy romantic relationships.

"Bad Romance"
Single by Lady Gaga
from the EP The Fame Monster
Written2009
ReleasedOctober 19, 2009
Recorded2009
Studio
Genre
Length
  • 4:54 (album version)
  • 4:21 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Stefani Germanotta
  • Nadir Khayat
Producer(s)
Lady Gaga singles chronology
"Paparazzi"
(2009) 		"Bad Romance"
(2009) 		"Video Phone"
(2009)
Music video
"Bad Romance" on YouTube

"Bad Romance" was acclaimed by music critics for its chorus, beat and hook. Retrospective reviewers called it Gaga's best song. It topped the charts in more than 20 countries and sold 12 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. In the US, the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified eleven times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, having sold 5.9 million digital downloads as of 2019. "Bad Romance" won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was included in annual "best-of" lists of the media outlets Rolling Stone and Pitchfork; the former named it one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century and 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a 2017 journal, which studied structural patterns in melodies of earworm songs, the American Psychological Association called "Bad Romance" the catchiest in the world.

The music video for "Bad Romance", directed by Francis Lawrence, features Gaga inside a surreal white bathhouse where she is kidnapped and drugged by supermodels who sell her to the Russian mafia for sexual slavery. The video ends as Gaga immolates the man who bought her. It garnered acclaim from critics for its fashion, choreography, costumes and symbolism. Briefly becoming the most-viewed YouTube video in 2010, it received a record ten nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards, winning seven, including Video of the Year. It received the Grammy Award for Best Music Video and was named the best music video of the 21st century by Billboard. Gaga has performed "Bad Romance" at television shows, award ceremonies, her concert tours and residency shows, and the Super Bowl LI halftime show.

Background and release

 
RedOne (pictured in 2017) co-wrote and co-produced the song with Gaga.

Lady Gaga and RedOne wrote, produced and arranged "Bad Romance"; they were also responsible for background vocals. RedOne solely handled instrumentation, programming and recording. He worked with Johny Severin on vocal editing, and Dave Russell and Eelco Bakker on audio engineering. The song was mixed by Spike Stent and mastered by Gene Grimaldi. "Bad Romance" was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and FC Walvisch in Amsterdam.[1]

Before its official release, a demo version was published illegally on the internet on October 2, 2009, prompting Gaga to comment via Twitter that it "is makin[g] my ears bleed. Wait till you hear the real version."[2] Gaga performed a snippet of "Bad Romance" on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009, along with "Poker Face" and "LoveGame".[3][4] The song's final version premiered during the finale of Alexander McQueen's 2010 Paris Fashion Week show titled Plato's Atlantis,[5] which was his last work before his death a few months later.[6] On October 19, "Bad Romance" was released as the lead single from the extended play (EP) The Fame Monster (2009), the reissue of Gaga's debut studio album, The Fame (2008).[7][8]

"Bad Romance" was one of the songs Gaga wrote in 2009 while touring. These songs were about the various abstract "monsters"—metaphors for her paranoias—she faced during the tour.[9][10] Gaga explained that she generally felt lonely in her relationships and was attracted to unhealthy romances, which became the song's themes.[11] Gaga wrote the lyrics in Norway on her tour bus. She elaborated on the writing process in an interview with Grazia:

I was in Russia, then Germany, and spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe. There is this amazing German house-techno music, so I wanted to make a pop experimental record. I kind of wanted to leave the '80s a little bit, so the chorus is a '90s melody, which is what the inspiration was. There was certainly some whisky involved in the writing of the record. It's about being in love with your best friend.[12]

Music and lyrics

"Bad Romance" is an electropop and dance-pop song with house, new wave and techno influences.[12][13][14] Sociologist Mathieu Deflem recognized rock influences in the song.[15] BBC critic Paul Lester noted rave-inspired synthesizer sounds in the song.[16] Musicnotes published this song in common time with a tempo of 119 beats per minute in the key of A minor. Gaga's vocal range spans from the low-note of E3 to the high-note of C5. The song follows in the chord progression of Am–C–F–Am-C–G in the verses and F–G–Am–C–F–G–E–Am in the chorus.[17]

Describing Gaga's voice in "Bad Romance", Deflem wrote that it is "at times raw and raspy, not soft and smooth, and incorporates the contrast of gentle and harsh vocal styles, alternating singing softly with screaming loudly".[15] The song opens as Gaga sings a portion of the chorus, then transitions into the "Rah-rah—ah-ah-ah, Roma-roma-ma, Gaga-ooh-la-la" hook, which she says is an abbreviation of the word "romance".[18] The song then incorporates keyboard sounds.[2] They are followed by the first verse and the pre-chorus as Gaga voices the lines, "You know that I want you / And you know that I need you". The "full-throated" chorus follows, where she sings, "You and me could write a bad romance ... / Caught in a bad romance."[2]

 
In the lyrics, Gaga name-checks three films by director Alfred Hitchcock (pictured).

Critics noted the influence of others songs and artists on "Bad Romance". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noticed influences from 1980s music.[14] Simon Price from The Independent and Daniel Brockman of The Phoenix compared the song to works of the groups Boney M. and Depeche Mode, respectively.[19][20] In the verse, "I want your psycho, your vertigo shtick, Want you in my Rear Window, Baby, you're sick", Gaga is listing Alfred Hitchcock films. She said, "What I'm really trying to say is I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much."[21] Price stated that the line "I want your ugly, I want your disease" established the grim tone of The Fame Monster.[19]

The lyrics address a bad relationship;[1][22] the Boston Public Health Commission included "Bad Romance" in its "Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients".[23] For Brockman, the song is a declaration of "liberation from a significant other".[20] Explaining its title, author Robin James in the book Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism wrote it does not romanticize "bad" things but is only "pointing out the badness of conventionally-scripted pop song 'romance' itself".[24]

Katrin Horn, a postdoctoral fellow in American studies, found that "Bad Romance" works on two levels. As the gay and lesbian youth account for a large proportion of Gaga's fans, the line "I don't wanna be friends"—which explores the issue of falling in love with one's heterosexual best friend—resonates with them. On the other hand, the song thematizes Gaga's "bad romance" with fame and fortune. Horn interpreted the part "all your lovers' revenge" as Gaga referencing her fans' previous idols, and in the line "I want your love", she is seeking applause from her fans when performing live.[25]

Critical reception

"Bad Romance" received widespread critical acclaim.[26] It was named the best song on The Fame Monster by Maureen Lee Lanker of Entertainment Weekly.[27] It was included in lists of best songs of 2009 by Pitchfork—which called it "epic in construction"—MTV News and Rolling Stone.[28][29][30] Calling it one of the "most memorable pop singles" of the late 2000s, NME credits the song with establishing Gaga as an icon.[31] In his review of the album, Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork found it "arguably the best pop single" of 2009.[32]

"Bad Romance" was praised for its chorus, beat and hook. Kaufman lauded the drastic transition into a bombastic beat during the chorus,[2] which was called catchy by Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen,[33] one of Gaga's best by MusicOMH's Michael Hubbard[34] and "so wonderfully big it dwarfs the industry of a million angry dudes with guitars" by NME's Emily Mackay.[35] Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the "Jabberwockian" catchiness of the hook.[36] Other reviewers commented on the song's sex appeal,[37] praised it for making Gaga's name a "Teutonic chant",[38] and called it a "turbocharged Euro-soul"[39] and a club-friendly tune that possessed a "sordid underbelly".[40]

"Bad Romance" was compared to Gaga's previous singles (including "Just Dance" and "Poker Face") by reviewers, with the criticism that it was not on par with them and lacked their instant catch.[2][22][37][41][42] Critics compared Gaga to other artists. Kitty Empire of The Guardian wrote "Bad Romance" made "this driven, uncharismatic Italian-American being [Gaga] the new Madonna",[43] and Spin's Josh Modell thought that with its "earworm nonsense lyric ('[r]a-ra-a-a-a, ra-ma, uh-uh-ah!')", the song "plays like the best Madonna song in ages".[44] Jon Blistein from L Magazine believed it is an amalgamation of a Cher song, "faux-European accented verse" and "bland spoken-word bridge".[45]

Chart performance

In the US, "Bad Romance" debuted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 14, 2009, with 143,000 digital downloads.[46] After two weeks, the song reached number two, holding the spot for seven non-consecutive weeks. It was barred from the top position by Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" (featuring Alicia Keys) and later Kesha's "Tik Tok" (both 2009). The movement to number two was first prompted by a 49% digital gain, which led to the song's top spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart.[47] As of February 2019, "Bad Romance" has sold 5.9 million copies in the US, according to Nielsen Soundscan,[48] making Gaga the second artist after Katy Perry to have three singles—along with "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"—each sell five million digital copies.[49] After the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) started including video streams in their tabulation of the single certifications, "Bad Romance" was certified 11× platinum for 11 million in sales and streaming.[50] According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, it briefly set the record for most weekly plays in the 17-year history of the Pop Songs chart, registering 10,859 plays from 130 radio stations monitored for the chart.[51] Following Gaga's Super Bowl LI halftime show performance in 2017, "Bad Romance" re-entered the Hot 100 at number 50 and Digital Song Sales at number 9.[52] On the Canadian Hot 100, "Bad Romance" debuted at number 58,[53] and reached number one the following week.[54] Replaced by "Tik Tok" for two weeks, "Bad Romance" returned to the top spot on the chart.[55] Music Canada certified "Bad Romance" septuple platinum, denoting download sales of 280,000 copies.[56]

On the European Hot 100 Singles chart, "Bad Romance" spent two weeks at number one.[57] It topped the charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Norway.[58][59][60] In the UK, "Bad Romance" debuted at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.[61] In December 2009, the song reached the top spot with 72,919 copies sold,[62] making Gaga the first female artist to have three number-one singles in one year.[a] It attained multi-platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[64] According to the British company Phonographic Performance Limited, the song was the UK's most played in 2010.[65] As of July 2022, "Bad Romance" has sold 1.7 million copies with 84 million streams, making it Gaga's third best selling single in the UK.[66]

"Bad Romance" debuted at number 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia and at number 33 on the RIANZ Singles Chart in New Zealand, before peaking at number two in both countries.[67][68] The song was certified eleven times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipment of 770,000 copies.[69] The song sold 9.7 million copies worldwide in 2010—making it the second best-selling of the year[70]—and 12 million as of 2018, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time.[71][26]

Music video

Development

 
Francis Lawrence (pictured in 2015) directed the music video.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga confirmed Francis Lawrence as the director of the music video and said that she was impressed with the final version.[72] She explained, "I knew [Lawrence's] ability as a director is so much higher than what I could [do]."[73] Her creative team Haus of Gaga managed the art direction,[72] and the final video premiered on November 10, 2009. Gaga described her experience of working with Lawrence:

I wanted somebody with a tremendous understanding of how to make a pop video, because my biggest challenge working with directors is that I am the director and I write the treatments and I get the fashion and I decide what it's about and it's very hard to find directors that will relinquish any sort of input from the artist ... But Francis and I worked together ... It was collaborative. He's a really pop video director and a filmmaker ... I knew he could execute the video in a way that I could give him all my weirdest, most psychotic ideas ... But it would come across to and be relevant to the public.[73]

Gaga and Lawrence developed the music video's concept. It was initially planned to be shot in New York City, with more elaborate sets and outdoor space. Owing to the low budget and a lack of product placement, this idea was scrapped. Because of Gaga's schedule, it was shot in Los Angeles over a two-day period. Lawrence was impressed with Gaga's work ethic and creativity during the video shoot; he praised her teamwork, punctuality and spontaneity.[74]

Synopsis

 
The video's choreography drew comparisons to that of Michael Jackson's Thriller. The white latex suits in the video were inspired by the wolf costume from the film Where the Wild Things Are.[75]

The video's main idea is that Gaga gets kidnapped by supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian mafia for a million rubles. It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse.[73][76] The video begins as Gaga, wearing razor-blade glasses, sits on a white throne in a brightly-lit white room while Johann Sebastian Bach's "Fugue No. 24" is playing in the background. As she plays "Bad Romance" on an iPod speaker, a dimly-lit bathhouse is shown, which has a sign reading "Bath Haus of GaGa" on its walls. As the song's first hook begins, Gaga and other women in latex suits crawl out of white, coffin-like pods, and begin dancing. A pastiche of ensuing scenes alternates between Gaga singing to herself in front of a mirror and lying in a bathtub.

During the chorus, two women pull Gaga out of the bathtub, rip her top clothing off and force her to drink a glass of vodka. As the second verse begins, Gaga, wearing a diamond-covered outfit and crown, seductively dances for men bidding for her. She performs a lap dance for one of them (played by Slovenian model Jurij Bradač),[77] who becomes her highest bidder. When the chorus plays for the third time, Gaga is shown wearing a faux-polar bear hide jacket and walking toward the man, who is sitting on a bed and unbuttoning his shirt. Looking indifferent, she removes her jacket and sunglasses. The bed spontaneously combusts while he is still sitting on it, and Gaga sings sinisterly in front of the flames. The video ends as she lies beside a smoldering skeleton on top of the destroyed bed covered in ashes. With soot smeared across her body, she calmly smokes a cigarette as her pyrotechnic bra activates.

Reception

The video received general acclaim for its fashion, choreography, futuristic set-piece and costumes.[b] Gaga, described by Christopher John Farley of The Wall Street Journal as "one of the few pop stars of the present time who really understood spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography" like Madonna and Michael Jackson in the 1980s,[36] was particularly praised by Jennifer Cady of E! for revitalizing performance art and putting thoughts and care into her products;[81] Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times expressed similar sentiments, believing the video to be "worthy of a feature-length film".[83] Critics positively commented on her looks, as they found her minimal use of make-up and the appearance of a "stripped down" and "real" Gaga refreshing.[84][85][86]

Media outlets noted the music video was reminiscent of the film Blade Runner (1982), Anubis Airlines from the television series True Blood (2008–2014), the works of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and Michael Jackson's Thriller.[79][86][87] The comparison to the lattermost was made because of the scene with the coffin pods,[85] "twitchy [...] dance moves",[83] and zombie-like arm movements.[84][85] Farley thought the video's shock art resembled Jackson's work during the 1980s.[36] For Evan Sawdey of PopMatters, it remained unclear whether Gaga deliberately paid homage to Thriller or used this as another excuse to wear "the mostweirdass [sic] outfits ever designed by mankind".[75]

Thematic analysis

Gaga said that the human trafficking in the video is a metaphor for the music industry's treatment of women as a "commodity".[88] In the book Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, Emily Herbert drew comparisons between the underlying theme of the video and the theme of The Fame Monster—Gaga's relationship with fame. Herbert wrote, "Was this the price that Gaga had to pay for the fame she so desired? Did she feel as if she'd had to prostitute herself in some way? The themes were all based around sex, decadence, and corruption; alcohol and even cigarettes, twenty-first century society's biggest no-no, were present, and so by implication ... drugs."[89]

Jocelyn Vena from MTV News and Troy Peterson of Slate believed that the video was symbolic. As it begins with Gaga around people representing her characters from The Fame videos, she is immediately kidnapped, drugged and changed into "the super-sexy, somewhat spooky Fame Monster version". Vena interpreted this as Gaga reinventing her image and being someone who likes to "push the boundaries and explor[e] all manner of sexual proclivities". She felt that the video was a testament to Gaga's brilliance as an artist who uses her videos to visualize the start of her career's next phase.[86] Peterson found religious symbolism in the video. He believed, for example, that the scenes with Gaga in the bathtub represented baptism and the women with martini were performing communion.[90]

The video's style, fashion and items were subject to analysis. The pair of razor-blade sunglasses that Gaga wore portrayed tough female spirit; she explained, "It's meant to be, 'This is my shield, this is my weapon, this is my inner sense of fame, this is my monster."[73] Author Robin James found Gaga's style in the video to be heavily inspired by goth fashion and aesthetics, including the Victorian-esque furniture and razor-blade eyeglasses. By visualizing "goth monstrosity", Gaga showcases sexual norms and identities to display the struggle she overcomes. For example, the words "Bath Haus of GaGa" in the video allude to English goth band Bauhaus, and her nude scene highlights her thin body's "grotesqueness" and vertebrae, which look like the ridges on a reptile's back.[91] James associated the "disgusting, distorted, monstrous bodies and movements" with the sexism Gaga faces. She described the video as Gaga's "conquest of the male gaze, the traffic in women and rape culture", which she felt was highlighted in Gaga's "insect" suit with Alexander McQueen's 12-inch (300 mm) armadillo heels resembling lobster-claws—a reference to a female mantis who cannibalizes her male partner after copulation.[92][93] Mass media theorist Paul Hegarty saw Gaga's use of the heels as a combination of dominance and submission: their height restricts her movement, indicating submissiveness, but her ability to walk in them signifies a subversive dominance.[94] In this way, the video "looks at complicity with controls as a way of surmounting them".[95]

Critics analyzed the ending scene, in which Gaga defeats the villain. Gaga kills her captor using a sparkling, pyrotechnic bra after having had sex with him. According to Mathieu Deflem, the bra represents Gaga's thoughts on society perceiving female breasts as a "weapon" when they are simply part of a woman's body.[96] Author Annette Lynch found the bra a symbol for empowerment, writing that Gaga uses her sexuality to defeat the villain.[97] During this scene, Gaga is seen calmly smoking a cigarette, which to Gilad Padva in the Journal of LGBT Youth indicated that she liked the sexual encounter with her captor, who dies after being exploited by a "voracious" Gaga—an "unruly woman"[c] prioritizing her own satisfaction over attempting to please her male partner. Padva found that this comically reversed "hegemonic [hetro]sexuality", where the submissive and exploited is now dominating and exploiting.[98] In the book The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays, Jennifer M. Santos believed by overpowering her captor, Gaga redefined gender roles and subverted male fantasies of "fetishistic scopophilia" and "sadistic voyeurism" as evident in the scene where Gaga is forced to strip almost naked and dance for her buyers.[99]

Accolades and impact

See also: List of awards and nominations received by Lady Gaga

In 2011, "Bad Romance" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[100] In 2015, Billboard called the song "the Biggest Hot 100 Hit to Peak at No. 2", describing it as a "modern classic".[101] A 2017 journal published by Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts studying structural patterns in the melodies of earworm songs compiled lists of catchiest tracks from 3,000 participants, in which "Bad Romance" ranked number one.[102] In 2018 and 2021, Rolling Stone named "Bad Romance" one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 21st-century and 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, respectively.[103][104] Billboard listed it as one of the 100 Best Karaoke Songs of All Time in 2022 and 500 Best Pop Songs of All Time in 2023.[105][106]

"If there's one song that defines Lady Gaga, it's this one. A highly successful blend of pop and synth maximalism, 'Bad Romance' was a tour de force by all accounts: brilliant lyrics; a shimmery, fashion-forward music video; record-breaking sales; and Lady Gaga's singular voice at its most guttural and raw."

—Britt Julious, Elle (2019)[82]

A writer for the Official Charts Company wrote that the song "indisputably turned Gaga from a pop girl of the moment into an undeniable superstar [...] A strange and malformed pop song, 'Bad Romance' was the ultimate vessel for Gaga's unlimited and unbridled ambition."[66] Media outlets Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Guardian, The Independent, Vulture, Uproxx and Glamour ranked "Bad Romance" as Gaga's best song.[d] For Vulture, it defined the late 2000s and "completed her transformation into a truly fearless, all-encompassing artist".[110] Rolling Stone believed the song epitomized the "essence of Gagaism"[e] and Billboard opined it captured "her grandiose aesthetic, daring songwriting, lyrical flourishes and dramatic vocal flair".[107] According to Uproxx, the song had elements that influenced Gaga's later work—"pure pop melodies, nods to her love for '80s and '90s dance, pop culture references [...] a radio-friendly chorus that sticks on the charts like honey, and a hefty dose of 'WTF' weirdness that keeps the singer in her own lane".[111] Author Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis cited "Bad Romance" as one of the signature songs on The Fame Monster, in which Gaga immersed in "her stylized profile of the 'mad artist'", who challenged traditional gender norms and sexuality.[113]

In May 2010, "Bad Romance" became the first video to reach 200 million views on YouTube, briefly becoming the most-viewed video there.[114] In January 2019, the video reached 1 billion views.[115] It received 10 nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Art Direction, Best Special Effects and Best Cinematography, winning Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Best Dance Video, Best Direction, Best Editing and Best Choreography.[116][117] It tied with Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" for the record of most nominations for a single video in the history of the MTV Video Music Award.[116] "Bad Romance" received the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.[100] Time magazine included "Bad Romance" on its list of best music videos since the 1980s. Its author Claire Suddath said that even if Gaga's subsequent videos were more elaborate, "Bad Romance" was Gaga at her best.[118]

Writing about the impact of Gaga's 2011 song "Born This Way" in the 2010s, Stephen Daw of Billboard called the "Bad Romance" music video a "culture-breaking moment".[119] In 2011, it was voted the best video of the 2000s by readers of Billboard, narrowly beating Britney Spears's "Toxic".[120] The magazine ranked it first in its list of 100 greatest music videos of the 21st century and credited it with establishing Gaga's fan base, known as Little Monsters. "It offered a glimpse into an entire cinematic world that thrilled and disturbed in equal measure, expanding the possibilities of what a music video could achieve — and challenging other stars to step their game up at the same time", wrote Billboard in its listing. "With 'Bad Romance,' she took the old standard for great music videos and set it aflame, then got to work building a new one."[121] In 2021, Rolling Stone Australia listed it as one of the 100 greatest music videos of all time.[80]

Live performances

See also: List of Lady Gaga live performances

Gaga first performed "Bad Romance" on Saturday Night Live in October 2009. She wore an outfit called "The Orb".[4] She performed it on the television show Gossip Girl in the episode "The Last Days of Disco Stick",[122] where she wore a 35-foot (11 m) long dress.[123] In an interview with MTV, Gaga explained that she did not want the performance to be out of tune with the show's storyline, so she worked with the scriptwriters to incorporate it into the plot.[123] Occurring at a private party arranged by the character Blair Waldorf,[124] the episode features Gaga as she emerges from two giant doors and climbs up a ladder, which symbolizes bad luck.[123][125]

 
Gaga performing the song during the revamped Monster Ball Tour in a mirrored dress and headpiece (2010)

Gaga performed "Bad Romance" at the 2009 American Music Awards. She was dressed in a flesh-colored bodysuit wrapped with white piping and embedded with flashing lights, imitating rib cage and a spine. During her performance, she broke open a glass door with the microphone stand.[126] Gaga sang the song on television shows, including The Jay Leno Show in November 2009,[127] The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2009,[128] The X Factor in December 2009,[129] The Oprah Winfrey Show in January 2010,[130] and Today in July 2010.[131] In May 2011, she performed it at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle, Cumbria and Good Morning America.[132][133] For the latter, she entered the stage flying on a harness as steam billowed from center-stage. As the song started, she changed to red fishnet stockings with black felt pieces, a red leotard and black lace boots. Katie Kindelan of ABC News commented on Gaga's "trademark outrageous fashion".[133]

"Bad Romance" was the last song in the set list of Gaga's worldwide concert series, The Monster Ball Tour (2009–2011). On the early version of the show, she wore a 1980s-inspired white power suit with high shoulders and high-waisted pants.[134] In the revamped 2010–2011 shows of the tour, she appeared on stage inside a gyroscope while wearing a mirrored dress and headpiece. Remarking on Gaga's "tremendous ambition and passion for her fans", Diana Benati of The Riverfront Times wrote, "Few people on this little blue marble have the ability or the opportunity to affect so many people on a daily basis. She stole [...] hearts".[135] Gaga emerged from an egg for the performance of "Bad Romance" at the Born This Way Ball (2012–2013).[136] Miguel Dumaual of ABS-CBNnews.com felt Gaga's performance "suffers from a little too much auto-dancing, -singing, and all-around hip gyrating".[137] Gaga also performed the track on her 2014 ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour in a rave-inspired outfit.[138] The same year, she sang a country version of "Bad Romance" at South by Southwest, and strapped on a rose-covered keytar while performing the song at her residency show, Lady Gaga Live at Roseland Ballroom.[139][140]

 
Gaga singing "Bad Romance" as the opening number of 2022's The Chromatica Ball, a choice Nick Lavine of NME considered "daring".[141]

In July 2016, Gaga performed it in a piano medley along with "You and I" and the Beatles' "Come Together" at a concert at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, which was part of the 2016 Democratic National Convention.[142] In November 2016, she appeared in the Carpool Karaoke segment of The Late Late Show with James Corden, and sang the track in the car with its host.[143] Gaga closed her set at the Super Bowl LI halftime show with "Bad Romance", wearing a silver, sequined Versace outfit with a shoulder pad-inspired jacket and hot pants.[144] The song was performed alongside "Poker Face" as an encore during both weekends that Gaga headlined Coachella in 2017.[145] On the Joanne World Tour (2017–2018), Gaga performed "Bad Romance" wearing a white origami-like jacket and a crystal embellished bodysuit with a matching white feathery masquerade mask and Giuseppe Zanotti booties.[146][147] She did a piano rendition of the song at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, before the world premiere of her documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two.[148]

Gaga sang "Bad Romance" during her residency show, Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano (2018–2022), which was divided into two shows. On Enigma, she performed it in a champagne-hued gold outfit,[149] and on Jazz & Piano, she did a stripped-down version.[150] "Bad Romance" was the opening number for The Chromatica Ball, Gaga's 2022 stadium tour, where she performed it from inside a leather sarcophagus-type garment, preceded by Bach's "Fugue No. 24" as the intro, similarly to the song's music video.[151][152] Nick Levine from NME opined that opening the concert with "Bad Romance", and her previous hit songs—"Poker Face" and "Just Dance"—showed that Gaga had "gumption" and the choice was "clever and daring".[141]

Cover versions

On March 29, 2010, Thirty Seconds to Mars covered the song in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge,[153] which reached number 11 on the UK Rock Chart.[154] Singer Lissie posted a cover of the song on YouTube, which received praise from filmmaker David Lynch.[155] The cast of the musical television series Glee performed it on an episode as a group number for which the actors donned Gaga outfits.[156] The song reached number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2010.[157] At the 46th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards, Linda Perry sang the song in a slowed down rendition, before Tony Bennett presented the Contemporary Icon Award to Gaga.[158] "Bad Romance" was briefly played on violin by Geoffrey Rush, portraying Albert Einstein in a promo for the National Geographic Channel historical anthology series Genius. The ad aired during Super Bowl LI immediately after Gaga's halftime performance.[159]

Track listing and formats

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Fame Monster.[1]

Recording locations

Credits

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for "Bad Romance"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[69] 11× Platinum 770,000‡
Belgium (BEA)[266] Gold 15,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[56] 7× Platinum 280,000*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[267] Platinum 30,000^
France (SNEP)[268] Platinum 250,000*
Germany (BVMI)[269] 3× Gold 450,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[270] 2× Platinum 40,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[271]
Digital single 		Gold 100,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[272]
Ringtone 		Gold 100,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[273] 2× Platinum 30,000*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[274] 8× Platinum 480,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[275] 2× Platinum 80,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[276]
Since 2015 		Platinum 60,000‡
Sweden (GLF)[277] 2× Platinum 40,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[278] Platinum 30,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[64] 3× Platinum 1,700,000[66]
United States (RIAA)[50] 11× Platinum 5,900,000[48]
Summaries
Worldwide — 12,000,000[71]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Bad Romance"
Region Date Format Version Label(s) Ref.
France October 19, 2009 Radio airplay Original Universal [279]
October 23, 2009 Digital download Interscope [280]
Ireland Universal [281]
United Kingdom October 25, 2009 [282]
United States October 26, 2009 Interscope [283]
Finland October 27, 2009 Universal [284]
Germany [285]
Norway [286]
Spain [287]
Sweden [284]
United States November 10, 2009 Contemporary hit radio Interscope [288]
Various November 23, 2009 7-inch vinyl
[289]
Italy November 27, 2009 Radio airplay Universal [290]
Various December 21, 2009 Digital download Remixes Interscope [291]
United States January 12, 2010 CD [163]
Various February 9, 2010 Digital download Remixes Part 2 [165]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Gaga previously reached the top position with her singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" in 2009.[63]
  2. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[78][79][80][81][82]
  3. ^ The author cites Kathleen Rowe's Unruly Woman: Gender and Genres of Laughter to define an "unruly woman" as someone who refuses to adhere to her "proper place", assertively expresses her desire and is hated for her independent nature.[98]
  4. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[33][107][108][109][110][111][112]
  5. ^ Described as "a relentlessly catchy chorus and a pummeling club beat power a song that's grand and tawdry and joyful and melancholy"[33]

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For other uses see Bad Romance disambiguation Bad Romance is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third extended play EP The Fame Monster 2009 the reissue of her debut studio album The Fame 2008 Gaga wrote and produced the song with RedOne Following an unauthorized demo leak Gaga premiered the song s final version during the finale of Alexander McQueen s 2010 Paris Fashion Week show in October 2009 and released it as the lead single from The Fame Monster later that month Musically it is an electropop and dance pop song with a spoken bridge Inspired by German house and techno the song was developed as an experimental pop record Lyrically Gaga drew from the paranoia she experienced while on tour and wrote about her attraction to unhealthy romantic relationships Bad Romance Single by Lady Gagafrom the EP The Fame MonsterWritten2009ReleasedOctober 19 2009Recorded2009StudioRecord Plant Los Angeles FC Walvisch Amsterdam GenreElectropop dance popLength4 54 album version 4 21 radio edit LabelStreamline KonLive Cherrytree InterscopeSongwriter s Stefani Germanotta Nadir KhayatProducer s RedOneLady Gaga singles chronology Paparazzi 2009 Bad Romance 2009 Video Phone 2009 Music video Bad Romance on YouTube Bad Romance was acclaimed by music critics for its chorus beat and hook Retrospective reviewers called it Gaga s best song It topped the charts in more than 20 countries and sold 12 million copies worldwide becoming one of the best selling singles of all time In the US the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified eleven times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America having sold 5 9 million digital downloads as of 2019 Bad Romance won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was included in annual best of lists of the media outlets Rolling Stone and Pitchfork the former named it one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century and 500 Greatest Songs of All Time In a 2017 journal which studied structural patterns in melodies of earworm songs the American Psychological Association called Bad Romance the catchiest in the world The music video for Bad Romance directed by Francis Lawrence features Gaga inside a surreal white bathhouse where she is kidnapped and drugged by supermodels who sell her to the Russian mafia for sexual slavery The video ends as Gaga immolates the man who bought her It garnered acclaim from critics for its fashion choreography costumes and symbolism Briefly becoming the most viewed YouTube video in 2010 it received a record ten nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards winning seven including Video of the Year It received the Grammy Award for Best Music Video and was named the best music video of the 21st century by Billboard Gaga has performed Bad Romance at television shows award ceremonies her concert tours and residency shows and the Super Bowl LI halftime show Contents 1 Background and release 2 Music and lyrics 3 Critical reception 4 Chart performance 5 Music video 5 1 Development 5 2 Synopsis 5 3 Reception 5 4 Thematic analysis 6 Accolades and impact 7 Live performances 8 Cover versions 9 Track listing and formats 10 Personnel 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 11 3 Decade end charts 12 Certifications and sales 13 Release history 14 See also 15 Notes 16 References 17 Literary sourcesBackground and release nbsp RedOne pictured in 2017 co wrote and co produced the song with Gaga Lady Gaga and RedOne wrote produced and arranged Bad Romance they were also responsible for background vocals RedOne solely handled instrumentation programming and recording He worked with Johny Severin on vocal editing and Dave Russell and Eelco Bakker on audio engineering The song was mixed by Spike Stent and mastered by Gene Grimaldi Bad Romance was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and FC Walvisch in Amsterdam 1 Before its official release a demo version was published illegally on the internet on October 2 2009 prompting Gaga to comment via Twitter that it is makin g my ears bleed Wait till you hear the real version 2 Gaga performed a snippet of Bad Romance on Saturday Night Live on October 3 2009 along with Poker Face and LoveGame 3 4 The song s final version premiered during the finale of Alexander McQueen s 2010 Paris Fashion Week show titled Plato s Atlantis 5 which was his last work before his death a few months later 6 On October 19 Bad Romance was released as the lead single from the extended play EP The Fame Monster 2009 the reissue of Gaga s debut studio album The Fame 2008 7 8 Bad Romance was one of the songs Gaga wrote in 2009 while touring These songs were about the various abstract monsters metaphors for her paranoias she faced during the tour 9 10 Gaga explained that she generally felt lonely in her relationships and was attracted to unhealthy romances which became the song s themes 11 Gaga wrote the lyrics in Norway on her tour bus She elaborated on the writing process in an interview with Grazia I was in Russia then Germany and spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe There is this amazing German house techno music so I wanted to make a pop experimental record I kind of wanted to leave the 80s a little bit so the chorus is a 90s melody which is what the inspiration was There was certainly some whisky involved in the writing of the record It s about being in love with your best friend 12 Music and lyrics Bad Romance is an electropop and dance pop song with house new wave and techno influences 12 13 14 Sociologist Mathieu Deflem recognized rock influences in the song 15 BBC critic Paul Lester noted rave inspired synthesizer sounds in the song 16 Musicnotes published this song in common time with a tempo of 119 beats per minute in the key of A minor Gaga s vocal range spans from the low note of E3 to the high note of C5 The song follows in the chord progression of Am C F Am C G in the verses and F G Am C F G E Am in the chorus 17 Describing Gaga s voice in Bad Romance Deflem wrote that it is at times raw and raspy not soft and smooth and incorporates the contrast of gentle and harsh vocal styles alternating singing softly with screaming loudly 15 The song opens as Gaga sings a portion of the chorus then transitions into the Rah rah ah ah ah Roma roma ma Gaga ooh la la hook which she says is an abbreviation of the word romance 18 The song then incorporates keyboard sounds 2 They are followed by the first verse and the pre chorus as Gaga voices the lines You know that I want you And you know that I need you The full throated chorus follows where she sings You and me could write a bad romance Caught in a bad romance 2 nbsp In the lyrics Gaga name checks three films by director Alfred Hitchcock pictured Critics noted the influence of others songs and artists on Bad Romance Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noticed influences from 1980s music 14 Simon Price from The Independent and Daniel Brockman of The Phoenix compared the song to works of the groups Boney M and Depeche Mode respectively 19 20 In the verse I want your psycho your vertigo shtick Want you in my Rear Window Baby you re sick Gaga is listing Alfred Hitchcock films She said What I m really trying to say is I want the deepest darkest sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much 21 Price stated that the line I want your ugly I want your disease established the grim tone of The Fame Monster 19 The lyrics address a bad relationship 1 22 the Boston Public Health Commission included Bad Romance in its Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients 23 For Brockman the song is a declaration of liberation from a significant other 20 Explaining its title author Robin James in the book Resilience amp Melancholy Pop Music Feminism Neoliberalism wrote it does not romanticize bad things but is only pointing out the badness of conventionally scripted pop song romance itself 24 Katrin Horn a postdoctoral fellow in American studies found that Bad Romance works on two levels As the gay and lesbian youth account for a large proportion of Gaga s fans the line I don t wanna be friends which explores the issue of falling in love with one s heterosexual best friend resonates with them On the other hand the song thematizes Gaga s bad romance with fame and fortune Horn interpreted the part all your lovers revenge as Gaga referencing her fans previous idols and in the line I want your love she is seeking applause from her fans when performing live 25 Critical reception Bad Romance received widespread critical acclaim 26 It was named the best song on The Fame Monster by Maureen Lee Lanker of Entertainment Weekly 27 It was included in lists of best songs of 2009 by Pitchfork which called it epic in construction MTV News and Rolling Stone 28 29 30 Calling it one of the most memorable pop singles of the late 2000s NME credits the song with establishing Gaga as an icon 31 In his review of the album Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork found it arguably the best pop single of 2009 32 Bad Romance was praised for its chorus beat and hook Kaufman lauded the drastic transition into a bombastic beat during the chorus 2 which was called catchy by Rolling Stone s Jody Rosen 33 one of Gaga s best by MusicOMH s Michael Hubbard 34 and so wonderfully big it dwarfs the industry of a million angry dudes with guitars by NME s Emily Mackay 35 Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the Jabberwockian catchiness of the hook 36 Other reviewers commented on the song s sex appeal 37 praised it for making Gaga s name a Teutonic chant 38 and called it a turbocharged Euro soul 39 and a club friendly tune that possessed a sordid underbelly 40 Bad Romance was compared to Gaga s previous singles including Just Dance and Poker Face by reviewers with the criticism that it was not on par with them and lacked their instant catch 2 22 37 41 42 Critics compared Gaga to other artists Kitty Empire of The Guardian wrote Bad Romance made this driven uncharismatic Italian American being Gaga the new Madonna 43 and Spin s Josh Modell thought that with its earworm nonsense lyric r a ra a a a ra ma uh uh ah the song plays like the best Madonna song in ages 44 Jon Blistein from L Magazine believed it is an amalgamation of a Cher song faux European accented verse and bland spoken word bridge 45 Chart performanceIn the US Bad Romance debuted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 14 2009 with 143 000 digital downloads 46 After two weeks the song reached number two holding the spot for seven non consecutive weeks It was barred from the top position by Jay Z s Empire State of Mind featuring Alicia Keys and later Kesha s Tik Tok both 2009 The movement to number two was first prompted by a 49 digital gain which led to the song s top spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart 47 As of February 2019 Bad Romance has sold 5 9 million copies in the US according to Nielsen Soundscan 48 making Gaga the second artist after Katy Perry to have three singles along with Just Dance and Poker Face each sell five million digital copies 49 After the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA started including video streams in their tabulation of the single certifications Bad Romance was certified 11 platinum for 11 million in sales and streaming 50 According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems it briefly set the record for most weekly plays in the 17 year history of the Pop Songs chart registering 10 859 plays from 130 radio stations monitored for the chart 51 Following Gaga s Super Bowl LI halftime show performance in 2017 Bad Romance re entered the Hot 100 at number 50 and Digital Song Sales at number 9 52 On the Canadian Hot 100 Bad Romance debuted at number 58 53 and reached number one the following week 54 Replaced by Tik Tok for two weeks Bad Romance returned to the top spot on the chart 55 Music Canada certified Bad Romance septuple platinum denoting download sales of 280 000 copies 56 On the European Hot 100 Singles chart Bad Romance spent two weeks at number one 57 It topped the charts in Austria Denmark Finland Germany Ireland Sweden and Norway 58 59 60 In the UK Bad Romance debuted at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart 61 In December 2009 the song reached the top spot with 72 919 copies sold 62 making Gaga the first female artist to have three number one singles in one year a It attained multi platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry BPI 64 According to the British company Phonographic Performance Limited the song was the UK s most played in 2010 65 As of July 2022 Bad Romance has sold 1 7 million copies with 84 million streams making it Gaga s third best selling single in the UK 66 Bad Romance debuted at number 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia and at number 33 on the RIANZ Singles Chart in New Zealand before peaking at number two in both countries 67 68 The song was certified eleven times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipment of 770 000 copies 69 The song sold 9 7 million copies worldwide in 2010 making it the second best selling of the year 70 and 12 million as of 2018 becoming one of the best selling singles of all time 71 26 Music videoDevelopment nbsp Francis Lawrence pictured in 2015 directed the music video In an interview with Rolling Stone Gaga confirmed Francis Lawrence as the director of the music video and said that she was impressed with the final version 72 She explained I knew Lawrence s ability as a director is so much higher than what I could do 73 Her creative team Haus of Gaga managed the art direction 72 and the final video premiered on November 10 2009 Gaga described her experience of working with Lawrence I wanted somebody with a tremendous understanding of how to make a pop video because my biggest challenge working with directors is that I am the director and I write the treatments and I get the fashion and I decide what it s about and it s very hard to find directors that will relinquish any sort of input from the artist But Francis and I worked together It was collaborative He s a really pop video director and a filmmaker I knew he could execute the video in a way that I could give him all my weirdest most psychotic ideas But it would come across to and be relevant to the public 73 Gaga and Lawrence developed the music video s concept It was initially planned to be shot in New York City with more elaborate sets and outdoor space Owing to the low budget and a lack of product placement this idea was scrapped Because of Gaga s schedule it was shot in Los Angeles over a two day period Lawrence was impressed with Gaga s work ethic and creativity during the video shoot he praised her teamwork punctuality and spontaneity 74 Synopsis nbsp The video s choreography drew comparisons to that of Michael Jackson s Thriller The white latex suits in the video were inspired by the wolf costume from the film Where the Wild Things Are 75 The video s main idea is that Gaga gets kidnapped by supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian mafia for a million rubles It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse 73 76 The video begins as Gaga wearing razor blade glasses sits on a white throne in a brightly lit white room while Johann Sebastian Bach s Fugue No 24 is playing in the background As she plays Bad Romance on an iPod speaker a dimly lit bathhouse is shown which has a sign reading Bath Haus of GaGa on its walls As the song s first hook begins Gaga and other women in latex suits crawl out of white coffin like pods and begin dancing A pastiche of ensuing scenes alternates between Gaga singing to herself in front of a mirror and lying in a bathtub During the chorus two women pull Gaga out of the bathtub rip her top clothing off and force her to drink a glass of vodka As the second verse begins Gaga wearing a diamond covered outfit and crown seductively dances for men bidding for her She performs a lap dance for one of them played by Slovenian model Jurij Bradac 77 who becomes her highest bidder When the chorus plays for the third time Gaga is shown wearing a faux polar bear hide jacket and walking toward the man who is sitting on a bed and unbuttoning his shirt Looking indifferent she removes her jacket and sunglasses The bed spontaneously combusts while he is still sitting on it and Gaga sings sinisterly in front of the flames The video ends as she lies beside a smoldering skeleton on top of the destroyed bed covered in ashes With soot smeared across her body she calmly smokes a cigarette as her pyrotechnic bra activates Reception The video received general acclaim for its fashion choreography futuristic set piece and costumes b Gaga described by Christopher John Farley of The Wall Street Journal as one of the few pop stars of the present time who really understood spectacle fashion shock choreography like Madonna and Michael Jackson in the 1980s 36 was particularly praised by Jennifer Cady of E for revitalizing performance art and putting thoughts and care into her products 81 Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times expressed similar sentiments believing the video to be worthy of a feature length film 83 Critics positively commented on her looks as they found her minimal use of make up and the appearance of a stripped down and real Gaga refreshing 84 85 86 Media outlets noted the music video was reminiscent of the film Blade Runner 1982 Anubis Airlines from the television series True Blood 2008 2014 the works of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and Michael Jackson s Thriller 79 86 87 The comparison to the lattermost was made because of the scene with the coffin pods 85 twitchy dance moves 83 and zombie like arm movements 84 85 Farley thought the video s shock art resembled Jackson s work during the 1980s 36 For Evan Sawdey of PopMatters it remained unclear whether Gaga deliberately paid homage to Thriller or used this as another excuse to wear the mostweirdass sic outfits ever designed by mankind 75 Thematic analysis Gaga said that the human trafficking in the video is a metaphor for the music industry s treatment of women as a commodity 88 In the book Lady Gaga Behind the Fame Emily Herbert drew comparisons between the underlying theme of the video and the theme of The Fame Monster Gaga s relationship with fame Herbert wrote Was this the price that Gaga had to pay for the fame she so desired Did she feel as if she d had to prostitute herself in some way The themes were all based around sex decadence and corruption alcohol and even cigarettes twenty first century society s biggest no no were present and so by implication drugs 89 Jocelyn Vena from MTV News and Troy Peterson of Slate believed that the video was symbolic As it begins with Gaga around people representing her characters from The Fame videos she is immediately kidnapped drugged and changed into the super sexy somewhat spooky Fame Monster version Vena interpreted this as Gaga reinventing her image and being someone who likes to push the boundaries and explor e all manner of sexual proclivities She felt that the video was a testament to Gaga s brilliance as an artist who uses her videos to visualize the start of her career s next phase 86 Peterson found religious symbolism in the video He believed for example that the scenes with Gaga in the bathtub represented baptism and the women with martini were performing communion 90 The video s style fashion and items were subject to analysis The pair of razor blade sunglasses that Gaga wore portrayed tough female spirit she explained It s meant to be This is my shield this is my weapon this is my inner sense of fame this is my monster 73 Author Robin James found Gaga s style in the video to be heavily inspired by goth fashion and aesthetics including the Victorian esque furniture and razor blade eyeglasses By visualizing goth monstrosity Gaga showcases sexual norms and identities to display the struggle she overcomes For example the words Bath Haus of GaGa in the video allude to English goth band Bauhaus and her nude scene highlights her thin body s grotesqueness and vertebrae which look like the ridges on a reptile s back 91 James associated the disgusting distorted monstrous bodies and movements with the sexism Gaga faces She described the video as Gaga s conquest of the male gaze the traffic in women and rape culture which she felt was highlighted in Gaga s insect suit with Alexander McQueen s 12 inch 300 mm armadillo heels resembling lobster claws a reference to a female mantis who cannibalizes her male partner after copulation 92 93 Mass media theorist Paul Hegarty saw Gaga s use of the heels as a combination of dominance and submission their height restricts her movement indicating submissiveness but her ability to walk in them signifies a subversive dominance 94 In this way the video looks at complicity with controls as a way of surmounting them 95 Critics analyzed the ending scene in which Gaga defeats the villain Gaga kills her captor using a sparkling pyrotechnic bra after having had sex with him According to Mathieu Deflem the bra represents Gaga s thoughts on society perceiving female breasts as a weapon when they are simply part of a woman s body 96 Author Annette Lynch found the bra a symbol for empowerment writing that Gaga uses her sexuality to defeat the villain 97 During this scene Gaga is seen calmly smoking a cigarette which to Gilad Padva in the Journal of LGBT Youth indicated that she liked the sexual encounter with her captor who dies after being exploited by a voracious Gaga an unruly woman c prioritizing her own satisfaction over attempting to please her male partner Padva found that this comically reversed hegemonic hetro sexuality where the submissive and exploited is now dominating and exploiting 98 In the book The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga Critical Essays Jennifer M Santos believed by overpowering her captor Gaga redefined gender roles and subverted male fantasies of fetishistic scopophilia and sadistic voyeurism as evident in the scene where Gaga is forced to strip almost naked and dance for her buyers 99 Accolades and impactSee also List of awards and nominations received by Lady Gaga In 2011 Bad Romance won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 100 In 2015 Billboard called the song the Biggest Hot 100 Hit to Peak at No 2 describing it as a modern classic 101 A 2017 journal published by Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts studying structural patterns in the melodies of earworm songs compiled lists of catchiest tracks from 3 000 participants in which Bad Romance ranked number one 102 In 2018 and 2021 Rolling Stone named Bad Romance one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 21st century and 500 Greatest Songs of All Time respectively 103 104 Billboard listed it as one of the 100 Best Karaoke Songs of All Time in 2022 and 500 Best Pop Songs of All Time in 2023 105 106 If there s one song that defines Lady Gaga it s this one A highly successful blend of pop and synth maximalism Bad Romance was a tour de force by all accounts brilliant lyrics a shimmery fashion forward music video record breaking sales and Lady Gaga s singular voice at its most guttural and raw Britt Julious Elle 2019 82 A writer for the Official Charts Company wrote that the song indisputably turned Gaga from a pop girl of the moment into an undeniable superstar A strange and malformed pop song Bad Romance was the ultimate vessel for Gaga s unlimited and unbridled ambition 66 Media outlets Rolling Stone Billboard The Guardian The Independent Vulture Uproxx and Glamour ranked Bad Romance as Gaga s best song d For Vulture it defined the late 2000s and completed her transformation into a truly fearless all encompassing artist 110 Rolling Stone believed the song epitomized the essence of Gagaism e and Billboard opined it captured her grandiose aesthetic daring songwriting lyrical flourishes and dramatic vocal flair 107 According to Uproxx the song had elements that influenced Gaga s later work pure pop melodies nods to her love for 80s and 90s dance pop culture references a radio friendly chorus that sticks on the charts like honey and a hefty dose of WTF weirdness that keeps the singer in her own lane 111 Author Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis cited Bad Romance as one of the signature songs on The Fame Monster in which Gaga immersed in her stylized profile of the mad artist who challenged traditional gender norms and sexuality 113 In May 2010 Bad Romance became the first video to reach 200 million views on YouTube briefly becoming the most viewed video there 114 In January 2019 the video reached 1 billion views 115 It received 10 nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Art Direction Best Special Effects and Best Cinematography winning Video of the Year Best Female Video Best Pop Video Best Dance Video Best Direction Best Editing and Best Choreography 116 117 It tied with Peter Gabriel s Sledgehammer for the record of most nominations for a single video in the history of the MTV Video Music Award 116 Bad Romance received the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video 100 Time magazine included Bad Romance on its list of best music videos since the 1980s Its author Claire Suddath said that even if Gaga s subsequent videos were more elaborate Bad Romance was Gaga at her best 118 Writing about the impact of Gaga s 2011 song Born This Way in the 2010s Stephen Daw of Billboard called the Bad Romance music video a culture breaking moment 119 In 2011 it was voted the best video of the 2000s by readers of Billboard narrowly beating Britney Spears s Toxic 120 The magazine ranked it first in its list of 100 greatest music videos of the 21st century and credited it with establishing Gaga s fan base known as Little Monsters It offered a glimpse into an entire cinematic world that thrilled and disturbed in equal measure expanding the possibilities of what a music video could achieve and challenging other stars to step their game up at the same time wrote Billboard in its listing With Bad Romance she took the old standard for great music videos and set it aflame then got to work building a new one 121 In 2021 Rolling Stone Australia listed it as one of the 100 greatest music videos of all time 80 Live performancesSee also List of Lady Gaga live performances Gaga first performed Bad Romance on Saturday Night Live in October 2009 She wore an outfit called The Orb 4 She performed it on the television show Gossip Girl in the episode The Last Days of Disco Stick 122 where she wore a 35 foot 11 m long dress 123 In an interview with MTV Gaga explained that she did not want the performance to be out of tune with the show s storyline so she worked with the scriptwriters to incorporate it into the plot 123 Occurring at a private party arranged by the character Blair Waldorf 124 the episode features Gaga as she emerges from two giant doors and climbs up a ladder which symbolizes bad luck 123 125 nbsp Gaga performing the song during the revamped Monster Ball Tour in a mirrored dress and headpiece 2010 Gaga performed Bad Romance at the 2009 American Music Awards She was dressed in a flesh colored bodysuit wrapped with white piping and embedded with flashing lights imitating rib cage and a spine During her performance she broke open a glass door with the microphone stand 126 Gaga sang the song on television shows including The Jay Leno Show in November 2009 127 The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2009 128 The X Factor in December 2009 129 The Oprah Winfrey Show in January 2010 130 and Today in July 2010 131 In May 2011 she performed it at Radio 1 s Big Weekend in Carlisle Cumbria and Good Morning America 132 133 For the latter she entered the stage flying on a harness as steam billowed from center stage As the song started she changed to red fishnet stockings with black felt pieces a red leotard and black lace boots Katie Kindelan of ABC News commented on Gaga s trademark outrageous fashion 133 Bad Romance was the last song in the set list of Gaga s worldwide concert series The Monster Ball Tour 2009 2011 On the early version of the show she wore a 1980s inspired white power suit with high shoulders and high waisted pants 134 In the revamped 2010 2011 shows of the tour she appeared on stage inside a gyroscope while wearing a mirrored dress and headpiece Remarking on Gaga s tremendous ambition and passion for her fans Diana Benati of The Riverfront Times wrote Few people on this little blue marble have the ability or the opportunity to affect so many people on a daily basis She stole hearts 135 Gaga emerged from an egg for the performance of Bad Romance at the Born This Way Ball 2012 2013 136 Miguel Dumaual of ABS CBNnews com felt Gaga s performance suffers from a little too much auto dancing singing and all around hip gyrating 137 Gaga also performed the track on her 2014 ArtRave The Artpop Ball tour in a rave inspired outfit 138 The same year she sang a country version of Bad Romance at South by Southwest and strapped on a rose covered keytar while performing the song at her residency show Lady Gaga Live at Roseland Ballroom 139 140 nbsp Gaga singing Bad Romance as the opening number of 2022 s The Chromatica Ball a choice Nick Lavine of NME considered daring 141 In July 2016 Gaga performed it in a piano medley along with You and I and the Beatles Come Together at a concert at the BB amp T Pavilion in Camden New Jersey which was part of the 2016 Democratic National Convention 142 In November 2016 she appeared in the Carpool Karaoke segment of The Late Late Show with James Corden and sang the track in the car with its host 143 Gaga closed her set at the Super Bowl LI halftime show with Bad Romance wearing a silver sequined Versace outfit with a shoulder pad inspired jacket and hot pants 144 The song was performed alongside Poker Face as an encore during both weekends that Gaga headlined Coachella in 2017 145 On the Joanne World Tour 2017 2018 Gaga performed Bad Romance wearing a white origami like jacket and a crystal embellished bodysuit with a matching white feathery masquerade mask and Giuseppe Zanotti booties 146 147 She did a piano rendition of the song at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival before the world premiere of her documentary Gaga Five Foot Two 148 Gaga sang Bad Romance during her residency show Lady Gaga Enigma Jazz amp Piano 2018 2022 which was divided into two shows On Enigma she performed it in a champagne hued gold outfit 149 and on Jazz amp Piano she did a stripped down version 150 Bad Romance was the opening number for The Chromatica Ball Gaga s 2022 stadium tour where she performed it from inside a leather sarcophagus type garment preceded by Bach s Fugue No 24 as the intro similarly to the song s music video 151 152 Nick Levine from NME opined that opening the concert with Bad Romance and her previous hit songs Poker Face and Just Dance showed that Gaga had gumption and the choice was clever and daring 141 Cover versionsOn March 29 2010 Thirty Seconds to Mars covered the song in BBC Radio 1 s Live Lounge 153 which reached number 11 on the UK Rock Chart 154 Singer Lissie posted a cover of the song on YouTube which received praise from filmmaker David Lynch 155 The cast of the musical television series Glee performed it on an episode as a group number for which the actors donned Gaga outfits 156 The song reached number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2010 157 At the 46th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards Linda Perry sang the song in a slowed down rendition before Tony Bennett presented the Contemporary Icon Award to Gaga 158 Bad Romance was briefly played on violin by Geoffrey Rush portraying Albert Einstein in a promo for the National Geographic Channel historical anthology series Genius The ad aired during Super Bowl LI immediately after Gaga s halftime performance 159 Track listing and formatsDigital download 160 Bad Romance 4 54Digital EP 161 Bad Romance 4 54 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Remix 5 11 Bad Romance Chew Fu Remix 7 14 Bad Romance Starsmith Remix 4 55 Bad Romance Music Video 5 14European CD single 59 Bad Romance Radio Edit 4 24 Bad Romance Main 4 54German digital download remix version 162 Bad Romance Radio Edit 4 21 Bad Romance Chew Fu Remix 7 13 Bad Romance Starsmith Remix 4 55 Bad Romance Grum Remix 4 50 Bad Romance Bimbo Jones Radio Remix 3 58 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Remix 5 11 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Dub Remix 5 11 Bad Romance Music Video 5 14 US digital EP The Remixes 163 Bad Romance Chew Fu H1N1 Fix 7 14 Bad Romance Kaskade Remix 4 20 Bad Romance Bimbo Jones Radio Remix 3 58 Bad Romance Skrillex Remix 4 23US CD single The Remixes 164 Bad Romance Chew Fu H1N1 Fix 7 14 Bad Romance Kaskade Remix 4 20 Bad Romance Bimbo Jones Remix 3 58 Bad Romance Skrillex Remix 4 23 Bad Romance Grum Remix 4 51 Bad Romance Richard Vission Remix 5 23 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Remix 5 12US digital EP The Remixes Pt 2 165 Bad Romance Grum Remix 4 50 Bad Romance Richard Vission Remix 5 22 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Remix 5 12 Bad Romance Hercules amp Love Affair Dub Remix 5 12 Bad Romance DJ Dan Remix 3 44PersonnelCredits adapted from the liner notes of The Fame Monster 1 Recording locations Recorded at Record Plant Studios Los Angeles and FC Walvisch Amsterdam Mastered at Oasis Mastering Burbank California Credits Lady Gaga lead vocals co producer vocal arrangement background vocals Nadir RedOne Khayat producer vocal editing vocal arrangement background vocals audio engineering instrumentation programming recording Johny Severin vocal editing Dave Russell audio engineering Eelco Bakker audio engineering Mark Spike Stent audio mixing Gene Grimaldi audio masteringChartsWeekly charts 2009 2013 weekly chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2009 2013 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 67 2Australia Dance ARIA 166 1Austria O3 Austria Top 40 167 1Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 59 2Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 168 3Brazil Hot 100 Airplay 169 4Bulgaria BAMP 170 1Canada Canadian Hot 100 171 1Canada AC Billboard 172 23Canada CHR Top 40 Billboard 173 1Canada Hot AC Billboard 174 1CIS TopHit 175 1Croatia HRT 176 1Czech Republic Radio Top 100 177 1Denmark Tracklisten 178 1European Hot 100 Singles Billboard 57 1Finland Suomen virallinen lista 179 1France SNEP 180 1Germany Official German Charts 181 1Global Dance Songs Billboard 182 1Greece Digital Song Sales Billboard 183 1Hungary Radios Top 40 184 1Hungary Single Top 40 185 2Hungary Dance Top 40 186 1Iceland RUV 187 1Ireland IRMA 58 1Israel Media Forest 188 1Italy FIMI 189 1Japan Japan Hot 100 190 4Luxembourg Digital Song Sales Billboard 191 2Mexico Mexico Airplay 192 1Netherlands Dutch Top 40 193 10Netherlands Single Top 100 194 7New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 68 2Norway VG lista 195 1Poland Dance Top 50 196 3Portugal Digital Song Sales Billboard 197 2Romania Romanian Radio Airplay 198 1Romania Romania TV Airplay 199 1Russia Airplay TopHit 200 60Scotland OCC 201 1Slovakia Radio Top 100 202 1South Korean International Singles Gaon 203 27South Korean International Singles Gaon 204 Kaskade remix 16Spain PROMUSICAE 205 1Sweden Sverigetopplistan 60 1Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 206 2UK Singles OCC 207 1Ukraine Airplay TopHit 208 83US Billboard Hot 100 209 2US Adult Contemporary Billboard 210 20US Adult Top 40 Billboard 211 7US Dance Club Songs Billboard 212 1US Dance Mix Show Airplay Billboard 213 1US Hot Latin Songs Billboard 214 13US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 215 1US Rhythmic Billboard 216 62017 weekly chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2017 PeakpositionUS Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 217 62024 weekly chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2024 PeakpositionPoland Polish Airplay Top 100 218 45 Year end charts 2009 year end chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2009 PositionAustralia ARIA 219 31Australia Dance ARIA 220 9Austria O3 Austria Top 40 221 27Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 222 86CIS TopHit 223 115Denmark Tracklisten 224 42Hungary Radios Top 40 225 133Hungary Dance Top 40 226 70Ireland IRMA 227 10Italy FIMI 228 18New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 229 29Sweden Sverigetopplistan 230 12UK Singles OCC 231 172010 year end chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2010 PositionAustralia ARIA 232 26Australia Dance ARIA 233 4Austria O3 Austria Top 40 221 9Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 234 31Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 235 10Canada Canadian Hot 100 236 3CIS TopHit 237 17Croatia HRT 238 17Denmark Tracklisten 239 28European Hot 100 Singles Billboard 240 1France SNEP 241 11Germany Official German Charts 242 17Hungary Radios Top 40 243 5Hungary Dance Top 40 244 7Ireland IRMA 245 12Italy FIMI 246 9Japan Japan Hot 100 247 26Netherlands Dutch Top 40 248 54Netherlands Single Top 100 249 57New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 250 31Romania Romanian Top 100 251 13Spain PROMUSICAE 252 6Sweden Sverigetopplistan 253 15Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 254 13UK Singles OCC 255 30US Billboard Hot 100 256 8US Adult Contemporary Billboard 257 48US Adult Top 40 Billboard 258 27US Dance Club Songs Billboard 259 2US Hot Latin Songs Billboard 260 64US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 261 3US Rhythmic Billboard 262 282011 year end chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2011 PositionRussia Airplay TopHit 263 1812017 year end chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2017 PositionUS Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 264 42Decade end charts Decade end chart performance for Bad Romance Chart 2010 19 PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 265 84Certifications and salesCertifications and sales for Bad Romance Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 69 11 Platinum 770 000 Belgium BEA 266 Gold 15 000 Canada Music Canada 56 7 Platinum 280 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 267 Platinum 30 000 France SNEP 268 Platinum 250 000 Germany BVMI 269 3 Gold 450 000 Italy FIMI 270 2 Platinum 40 000 Japan RIAJ 271 Digital single Gold 100 000 Japan RIAJ 272 Ringtone Gold 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 273 2 Platinum 30 000 Norway IFPI Norway 274 8 Platinum 480 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 275 2 Platinum 80 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 276 Since 2015 Platinum 60 000 Sweden GLF 277 2 Platinum 40 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 278 Platinum 30 000 United Kingdom BPI 64 3 Platinum 1 700 000 66 United States RIAA 50 11 Platinum 5 900 000 48 SummariesWorldwide 12 000 000 71 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release historyRelease dates and formats for Bad Romance Region Date Format Version Label s Ref France October 19 2009 Radio airplay Original Universal 279 October 23 2009 Digital download Interscope 280 Ireland Universal 281 United Kingdom October 25 2009 282 United States October 26 2009 Interscope 283 Finland October 27 2009 Universal 284 Germany 285 Norway 286 Spain 287 Sweden 284 United States November 10 2009 Contemporary hit radio Interscope 288 Various November 23 2009 7 inch vinyl InterscopeKonLiveStreamline 289 Italy November 27 2009 Radio airplay Universal 290 Various December 21 2009 Digital download Remixes Interscope 291 United States January 12 2010 CD 163 Various February 9 2010 Digital download Remixes Part 2 165 See alsoList of best selling singles List of best selling singles in the United States List of number one hits of 2009 Austria List of Hot 100 number one singles of 2009 Canada List of number one hits in Denmark List of number one singles Sweden List of number one singles of 2009 and 2010 Finland List of number one hits of 2009 Italy List of number one singles of 2009 and 2010 Ireland List of number one singles of 2009 and 2010 UK List of European number one hits of 2010 List of number one hits of 2010 France List of number one hits of 2010 Germany List of number one singles of 2010 Hungary List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2010s List of number one dance singles of 2009 U S List of number one dance 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