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"Bad Romance"
Song

"Bad Romance" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga. It is the lead single from her second studio album, The Fame Monster. The track was produced by RedOne and was inspired by the paranoia that she had felt while touring through the previous year. After the demo version of the song leaked, Gaga premiered the song at Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Fashion Week show on October 6, 2009, followed by the release of the cover art. "Bad Romance" features a spoken bridge and a full-throated chorus. The song was written by Gaga while touring and was inspired by German house-techno music. Lyrically it talks about being in love with one's best friend.

Contemporary critics gave positive reviews of the song with the majority of them comparing the song to Gaga's second single "Poker Face". It has since reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, Irish Singles Chart, Canadian Hot 100 and the Swedish, German, Austrian and Danish charts, while peaking at number two in countries such as the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The accompanying music video takes place in a white bathhouse where Gaga is kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her and then sell her off to the Russian Mafia for sexual slavery. The video received positive response for its treatment and innovation with critics noting more its craziness and symbolic plot.

Gaga has performed "Bad Romance" on a number of television shows including Saturday Night Live and Gossip Girl as well as award shows such as the 2009 American Music Awards. It was the closing song of Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour, where she performed it while standing inside a giant gyroscope. Rolling Stone ranked the song number nine on their list of the "25 Best Songs of 2009".[3]

Background

"Bad Romance" was the first single from The Fame Monster, Gaga's follow-up to The Fame.[4] Before its official release, a demo version of the song leaked on the internet, prompting Gaga to comment via Twitter, "leaked next single is makin my ears bleed. Wait till you hear the real version."[5] A brief portion of the song was performed on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009, along with other songs like "Poker Face" and "LoveGame".[6][7] "Bad Romance" premiered during the finale of fashion designer Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Fashion Week show on October 6, 2009.[8] The cover art was released on October 15, 2009. Bill Lamb from About.com praised the cover art saying "Gaga is maintaining her hitting streak of generating powerful images to accompany her music and stage presentations".[9] The official album version of "Bad Romance" was uploaded to Gaga's MySpace profile on October 21, 2009 and had over 1 million plays in two weeks.[10] Gaga explained that "Bad Romance" was one of the songs she wrote in 2008 while touring. Those songs were all about the various monsters (paranoias) she faced during the time. One of those was the love monster and the inspiration for "Bad Romance".[11] In Grazia magazine, Gaga further explained her inspiration behind the song. She said,

"I wrote [Bad Romance] when I was in Norway, on my tour bus. 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]

Composition

"Bad Romance"
A 30 second sample of "Bad Romance" where the chorus is played, supported by the Rah-rah hook.
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According to MTV, the song is similar in tempo to Gaga's previous single "Poker Face". The song opens with Gaga singing a portion of the chorus that then transitions into the "Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah/Roma-roma-mah/Gaga-ooh-la-la" hook. It is followed by the sound of drum beats and keyboard arrangement.[5] The bridge with Gaga voicing the line "You know that I want you/And you know that I need you/I want your bad, your bad romance". It is followed by the full-throated chorus, where Gaga sings "I want your love/And I want your revenge/You and me could write a bad romance [...] Caught in a bad romance".[5] The song also has Gaga singing one refrain in French: "Je veux ton amour/Et je veux ta revanche/Je veux ton amour".[1]

According to About.com, the music is best suited for viewing fashion designs and on the runway.[11] Slant Magazine said that the music consists of new wave synths and a number of endless hooks.[13] The Independent felt that the chorus has influences of the music of Boney M while The Guardian wrote that it recalled the music of Depeche Mode's fifth studio album Black Celebration (1986).[14][15] The song is set in the time signature of common time with a metronome of 119 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of A minor with Gaga's vocal range spanning from the low-note of E3 to the high-note of A5. The song follows in the chord progression of Am–C–F–C–G in the verses and F–G–Am–C–F–G–E–Am in the chorus.[16]

The lyrics in general talk about exploring the joys of a bad romance but this idea changes during the intermediate bridge when the lyrics talk about fashion.[17] While being interviewed on the November 2, 2009 episode of It's On with Alexa Chung, Gaga pointed out that she was listing Alfred Hitchcock films in the verse, "I want your psycho, your vertigo shtick/Want you in my rear window/Baby you're sick." 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."[18]

Critical reception

"Bad Romance" has been given mostly positive reviews from critics. Bill Lamb from About.com commented that "Lady Gaga's singing is at its best so far here as she moves from threatening to floating sweetness and back again. [...] If you had any fears that Gaga would be one album flash in the pan, the room filling beats and melodies of 'Bad Romance' should help dispel them."[11] He also listed the song as one of the top tracks from the album.[19] Gil Kaufman from MTV commented that the "minimal beat [of the song] stays at a low boil for most, [...] rising up in an ecstatic, Erasure-esque throb during the chorus, but lacking the immediate pull of some of Gaga's biggest hits to date".[5] Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone, while writing about the song's initial leak, felt that the song was comparable to "Poker Face" and was not on par with her other singles.[17] Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the catchiness of the "Bad Romance" hook.[20] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine called the song as one of the album's highlights and explained that "if melodies could be time-stamped, [this] would have '80s branded on [its ass]".[13] Simon Price from The Independent said that the first line of the song "I want your ugly, I want your disease" set the tone for the gothic nature of The Fame Monster.[14]

Kitty Empire of The Guardian felt that singles like "Bad Romance" make Gaga more comparable with Madonna.[21] Paul Lester from BBC called the song "cheesy" and felt that it is comparable to the music of Andy Warhol.[15] Mikale Wood of Los Angeles Times called the song "Europoppy".[22] Jon Dolan from Rolling Stone said that "'Bad Romance' makes [Gaga's] name a Teutonic chant".[23] Edna Gundersen of USA Today said that "Synth-powered 'Bad Romance' is a ferocious club thumper with a sordid underbelly".[24] Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH felt that the chorus of the song is Gaga's best one yet.[25] Monica Herrera from Billboard was of the opinion that "Bad Romance" was not as catchy as Gaga's previous songs, but it had "wicked" sex appeal.[26] Pitchfork Media placed "Bad Romance" at number 39 in their top 100 tracks of 2009, saying it was "epic in construction".[27] The Boston Public Health Commission rated "Bad Romance" as number ten on their list of "Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients".[28]

Chart performance

"Bad Romance" debuted at number-nine on the November 14, 2009 chart of the Billboard Hot 100, making it Gaga's highest-debuting song on the chart, selling 142,000 paid digital downloads in its first week.[29] After two weeks the song peaked at number-two, making it her third-highest peaking song on the Hot 100 behind "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The movement was spurred by 49% digital gain, thus pushing the song to the top of the Hot Digital Songs chart.[30] The song has sold 4,111,000 paid digital downloads in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan, making Gaga the first artist in digital history to have 3 singles—along with "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"—pass the 4 million mark in digital sales.[31][32] "Bad Romance" debuted on the Pop Songs chart at number 38[33] and moved to the top of the chart on the issue dated January 16, 2010, making it Gaga's fifth consecutive number-one single on the chart.[34] The same week it also topped the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.[34] According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Bad Romance" set the record for most weekly plays in the seventeen year history of the Pop Songs chart, registering 10,859 plays from 130 radio station reporters monitored for the chart. It was later broken by Kesha with her song "Tik Tok".[35]

The song debuted in Australia on the ARIA Charts at number sixteen on the issue dated November 2, 2009[36] and at number 33 on the New Zealand RIANZ charts.[37] The next week, "Bad Romance" was the greatest gainer on the ARIA charts and moved to a peak of three.[38] On its seventh week on the chart, the song reached a new peak at number-two,[39] and moved to a peak of number-three in New Zealand.[37] On the issue dated October 29, 2009, "Bad Romance" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number 20, it reached the top in its seventh week.[40] On the Canadian Hot 100, it debuted at number 58.[41] The following week it reached number-one, making it the third song by Gaga to top the Canadian chart.[42] After being replaced by Kesha's single "Tik Tok" for two weeks, "Bad Romance" again claimed the top spot on the chart.[43]

"Bad Romance" charted within the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart at number 14 on its first week. In December 2009, Gaga scored her third UK number-one single, therefore making her the first female in British chart history to have three number-one singles in one year. Two weeks later, in the first week of 2010, "Bad Romance" returned to the number-one spot, making her only the second female artist of the 21st century to have two separate runs at the top spot, and as a result, she is the only female artist in British chart history to have achieved number one singles in the 2000 and 2010 decades.[44] In Sweden, the song debuted at number-three and after two weeks, reached the top of the chart.[45][46] Across Europe the song debuted on the main charts of Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.[47] The song debuted on the European Hot 100 Singles at number forty[48] and on the Billboard issue dated January 23, 2010, "Bad Romance" topped the chart, remaining there for two weeks.[49]

Music video

Development

During an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga confirmed that film director Francis Lawrence had directed the music video and that she was impressed with the final version.[50] She explained, "I knew [Lawrence's] ability as a director is so much higher than what I could [do]."[51] Her creative team Haus of Gaga managed the art direction for the video.[50] The music video premiered on November 10, 2009. Gaga further explained her experience of working with Lawrence as,

"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. He did I Am Legend and I'm a huge Will Smith fan, so 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."[51]

Gaga created a pair of razor-blade sunglasses as she believed that it portrayed a tough female spirit. She emphasized that "I wanted to design a pair for some of the toughest chicks and some of my girlfriends [...] they used to keep razor blades in the side of their mouths, [...] That tough female spirit is something that I want to project. It's meant to be, 'This is my shield, this is my weapon, this is my inner sense of fame, this is my monster.'"[51] The white latex suits in the video were designed from the character Max's wolf costume for the movie Where the Wild Things Are.[52] She also wore Alexander McQueen's 12-inch high shoes.[53]

Concept

Image shows a burnt bed with a burnt skeleton lying on the right side. Beside the skeleton sits a blond woman in lingerie, smoking a cigarette and her hair falling around her. From her bustier sparks emerge.
Gaga lying on a bed beside the burnt skeleton of her customer. She wears a pyrotechnic bra and smokes a cigarette.

The main idea behind the video is that of Gaga being kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her, and sell her off to the Russian Mafia. It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse.[51][54] The video begins with Gaga sitting in a white throne, wearing a golden dress and glasses made from razor blades. She is surrounded by several people and her signature harlequin Great Dane. She has her finger on the mute button of an MP3 speaker (from which a synthesized excerpt of the fugue in B minor from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach emanates as an intro to the music video), and when she releases it, "Bad Romance" begins to play. Sunlight begins to pan across the walls of a bath house activating the fluorescent lighting, and a sign is shown that reads: "Bath Haus of GaGa". A group of dancers wearing white long-sleeved leotards with knee high boots and matching crowns crawl out of white, egg-shaped pods. The center pod has the word "Mons†er" written on it, and Gaga emerges from it wearing a similar outfit to the dancers, who begin to dance behind her.

When the chorus of the song begins, two women pull her out of a bathtub, rip her clothes off and force her to drink a glass of vodka. As the second verse begins, Gaga, wearing a diamond-covered outfit complete with a crown, seductively dances for a group of men bidding on her. She straddles one of the men, played by Slovenian model Jurij Bradač,[55] and performs a lap dance on him. Afterwards, he raises his bid and becomes the highest bidder for her. When the chorus is played for the third time, Gaga is shown wearing a faux polar bear hide jacket. She walks toward the man, who is sitting on a bed, unbuttoning his shirt. Gaga has a look of indifference on her face and removes her jacket and sunglasses. Suddenly, the bed spontaneously combusts with the man still sitting on it. The video ends with Gaga lying beside a smoldering skeleton on top of the destroyed bed with ashes everywhere. She smokes a cigarette, while her pyrotechnic bra activates.

Reception

Tim Stack from Entertainment Weekly compared some of the dance choreography of the video with the music video of "Thriller". He said, "I don't think Gaga has ever looked prettier than in the close-ups where she's more stripped down."[56] Jennifer Cady of E! was also impressed by the video and commented, "This music video really makes us appreciate everything Gaga actually brings to pop music. She's exciting to watch, plain and simple. [...] We need someone like Gaga to really bring it. To put actual thought and care into her product so that it feels alive."[57] Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone felt that the scenes from the music video were reminiscent of the work of Stanley Kubrick. He added that in "Bad Romance", Gaga portrays her craziest ideas yet.[58] Jocelyn Vena from MTV believed that the video was symbolic and portrayed that "the old Gaga is over, here's the brand-new Gaga: the one who seems to delight in pushing the boundaries and exploring all manner of sexual proclivities." He further believed that the video was a testament to Gaga's brilliance as an artist that uses the video artform as the jump-off point for the next leg of their career.[59] The Wall Street Journal noted Gaga as one of the few pop stars of present time, who really understood spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography — all the things Madonna and Michael Jackson were masters of in the 1980s.[20] Bill Lamb from About.com wrote that "like the song [the video] blasts at your senses until you are just left drowning in the audio and visual power of it all."[60] Evan Sawdey from PopMatters felt that the song is best defined by its video.[52] Currently, it is the most viewed video of all time on YouTube.

Live performances

A blond woman in white pants and black bustier stands inside a number of metallic circular rings. She holds a microphone to her mouth with her left hand and her right hand makes a claw like gesture. The woman is flanked by men and women in white dress and fierce expressions with their eyes being white in color.
Gaga, surrounded by her dancers, performing "Bad Romance" on The Monster Ball Tour while standing inside a gyroscope

A portion of the song was performed on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009. Gaga wore a complex outfit called "The Orbit" designed by Nasir Mazhar and her production group "Haus of Gaga".[7] Described by Gaga as a "fashion installation", it consisted of concentric metallic rings that revolved around her. After finishing her performance of "LoveGame", Gaga sat at her piano and played an acoustic version of the chorus of "Bad Romance".[5][61] Gaga performed the song on the TV show Gossip Girl episode The Last Days of Disco Stick.[62] The performance took place at a private show arranged by the character Blair Waldorf.[63] In an interview with MTV, Gaga explained that the decision to perform on the show was inspired by her sister. She stated that she did not want the performance to be out-of-tune with the storyline of the show, so she worked with the script-writers to incorporate it into the plot. The performance included many ladders, which are a symbol of bad luck; it featured Gaga wearing a 35 foot long dress.[64] According to the show's executive producer Stephanie Savage, the song incorporated a few Gossip Girl specific lyrics.[62] The performance began with her emerging from two giant doors in a large red gown. She climbed up a ladder, from where she sang parts of the song. Her male dancers danced around the ladder as she continued to sing.[65]

The song was performed at the 2009 American Music Awards, where she coupled it with her song "Speechless". Gaga was dressed in a flesh-colored bodysuit wrapped with white piping, and embedded with flashing lights imitating ribs and a spine. The performance started with "Bad Romance" and Gaga dancing around the stage, ultimately breaking open a glass door with the microphone stand.[66] It was performed on The Jay Leno Show where Gaga wore a pair of black sunglasses and a black jacket with shoulder pads that extended above her head. Her male backup dancers were dressed in black suits and S&M headgear.[67] Both "Bad Romance" and "Speechless" were performed at The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 25, 2009.[68] Gaga performed "Bad Romance" on the British TV show The X Factor on December 6, 2009.[69] The performance had the singer singing from a four meter long bath tub as well as playing the piano while sitting on a toilet.[70] "Bad Romance" was performed as the last song of Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour. She performed the song in an '80s-inspired white power suit with exaggerated high shoulders and highwaisted pants. The performance was done while standing in a human sized gyroscope.[71][72]

Cover versions

On November 18, 2009, a video was uploaded to YouTube with Gia Farrell performing an acoustic cover of the track.[73] On March 14, 2010, Marco Hietala from Nightwish covered the song in Kuorosota.[74] Hayley Williams, the lead singer from Paramore covered a piano version of the song and posted it on her Twitter on March 28, 2010.[75][76] On March 29, 2010, 30 Seconds to Mars covered the song in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.[77][78] Glee performed it on one of the episodes titled Theatricality; it was a group number where the actors donned Lady Gaga outfits.[79] Evil Adam covered the song and made it available to stream and download.[80]

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Source:[1]

Charts, certifications and procession

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
"Sexy Bitch" by David Guetta featuring Akon
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
 Canadian Hot 100 number-one single
November 14, 2009 (first run)
December 5, 2009 – December 26, 2009 (second run) 		Succeeded by
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
Preceded by
"2000" by Kent
""Higher" by Erik Grönwall
"Higher" by Erik Grönwall
 Swedish Singles Chart number-one single
November 20, 2009 – December 18, 2009 (first run)
January 22, 2010 (second run)
February 5, 2010 (third run) 		Succeeded by
"Higher" by Erik Grönwall
"Higher" by Erik Grönwall
"Fireflies by Owl City
Preceded by Irish Singles Chart number-one single
December 10, 2009 – December 17, 2009 (first run)
January 14, 2010 – January 21, 2010 (second run) 		Succeeded by
"The Climb" by Joe McElderry
"Fireflies" by Owl City
Preceded by Austrian Singles Chart number-one single
November 27, 2009 – January 21, 2010 		Succeeded by
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
Preceded by Romanian Top 100 number-one single
January 17, 2010 – March 7, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Danish Singles Chart number-one single
December 11, 2009 – March 12, 2010 		Succeeded by
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
Preceded by Finnish Singles Chart number-one single
December 23, 2009 – March 10, 2010
Preceded by
"Dove si vola" by Marco Mengoni
 Italian Singles Chart number-one single
December 7, 2009 – January 4, 2010 		Succeeded by
"Baciami ancora" by Jovanotti
Preceded by UK Singles Chart number-one single
December 13, 2009 – December 20, 2009 (first run)
January 3, 2010 – January 10, 2010 (second run) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one single
December 26, 2009 – January 9, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by German Singles Chart number-one single
January 15, 2010 – January 21, 2010 		Succeeded by
"I Like" by Keri Hilson
Preceded by
"Replay" by Iyaz
 US Billboard Pop Songs number-one single
January 17, 2010 – February 6, 2010 		Succeeded by
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
Preceded by
"Cry Cry" by Oceana
 Bulgarian Airplay Chart number-one single
January 17, 2010 – February 14, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Hungarian Airplay Chart number-one single
February 8, 2010 – March 14, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Meet Me Halfway" by Black Eyed Peas
"Meet Me Halfway" by Black Eyed Peas
 European Hot 100 Singles number-one single
January 23, 2010 (first run)
February 6, 2010 (second run) 		Succeeded by
"Meet Me Halfway" by Black Eyed Peas
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
Preceded by French Singles Chart number-one single
January 24, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Hotel Room Service" by Pitbull
"Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
 Czech Airplay Chart number one single
February 8, 2010 – February 22, 2010 (first run)
April 5, 2010 – April 12, 2010 (second run) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Tik Tok" by Kesha
 US Billboard Hot Dance Airplay number-one single
February 27, 2010 		Succeeded by

Release history

Region Date Format
United Kingdom October 25, 2009[115] Digital download
United States October 26, 2009[116]
United Kingdom November 23, 2009[117] CD single
Australia[118] November 27, 2009
Germany
United States December 22, 2009[86] The Remixes – Digital download
January 12, 2010[86][119] The Remixes – CD single
France January 18, 2010[120] CD single
United States February 9, 2010[88] The Remixes Part 2 – Digital download

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