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"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. Composed in a similar tempo to her previous singles, "Bad Romance" features a bridge and a full-throated chorus. The song talks about exploring the joys of a bad romance while referencing Alfred Hitchcock films in some of the verses.

Contemporary critics gave positive reviews of the song with 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, 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. Rolling Stone ranked the song at position ten on their Best 25 Songs of 2009 list.

Background

"Bad Romance" was confirmed as the first single from The Fame Monster, Gaga's follow-up to The Fame. 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." 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". "Bad Romance" premiered during the finale of fashion designer Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Fashion Week show on October 6, 2009. 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." The official album version of "Bad Romance" was uploaded to Lady Gaga's MySpace profile on October 21, 2009 and had over 1 million plays in two weeks. 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". With Grazia magazine, Gaga further explained her inspiration behind the song. She said,

"I wrote 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."

Music and lyrics

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-là-là" hook. It is followed by the sound of drum beats and keyboard arrangement. The bridge with Gaga voicing the line "You know that I want you/ And you know that I need you." It is followed by the full-throated chorus, where Gaga sings "You and me could write a bad romance Caught in a bad romance." According to About.com the music is best suited for viewing fashion designs and on the runway. Slant Magazine said that the music consists of new wave synths and a number of endless hooks. 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). The song is set in the time signature of common time with a metronome of 116 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–Em–Am in the chorus.

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. 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 stated, "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."

Critical reception

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." He also listed the song as one of the top tracks from the album. Gil Kaufman from MTV commented that the "minimal beat 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." Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone, while writing about the song's initial leak, commented that the "single doesn’t deviate far from the blueprint mapped out by those other hits, especially “Poker Face”, to which “Bad Romance” bears a striking resemblance." Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the song saying "It’s particularly hard to resist the Jabberwockian catchiness of the 'Bad Romance' hook." Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine called the song as one of the album's highlights and explained that "if melodies could be time-stamped, would have '80s branded on ." Simon Price from The Independent stated 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.

Kitty Empire from The Guardian felt that "singles like 'Bad Romance' make an even more persuasive case for this driven, uncharismatic Italian-American being the new Madonna." Paul Lester from BBC called the song "cheesy" and felt that it is comparable to the music of Andy Warhol. Mikale Wood from Los Angeles Times called the song "a little Europoppy". Jon Dolan from Rolling Stone said that "'Bad Romance' makes name a Teutonic chant." Edna Gunderson from USA Today said that "Synth-powered 'Bad Romance' is a ferocious club thumper with a sordid underbelly." Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH felt that the chorus of the song is Gaga's best one yet, "mainly because it seems to contain at least three separate sections, each as catchy as the last." Monica Herrera from Billboard was of the opinion that "Bad Romance" is not as catchy as Gaga's previous songs, but it has "wicked" sex appeal. Pitchfork Media placed "Bad Romance" at thirty-nine in their top hundred tracks of 2009 saying it was "epic in construction." The Boston Public Health Commission rated "Bad Romance" as number-ten on their list of "Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients."

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. After two weeks the song reached a peak of 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. The song has sold 2.47 million paid digital downloads in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan. "Bad Romance" debuted on the Pop Songs chart at thirty-eight 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. The same week it also topped the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. 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. On the Canadian Hot 100, it debuted at number fifty-eight. The following week it reached number one, making it the third song by Gaga to top the Canadian chart. After being replaced by Kesha's single "Tik Tok" for two weeks, "Bad Romance" again claimed the top spot on the chart.

The song debuted in Australia on the ARIA Charts at number sixteen on the issue dated November 2, 2009 and at number thirty-three on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. The next week, "Bad Romance" was the greatest gainer on the ARIA charts and moved to a peak of three. On its seventh week on the chart, the song set a new peak at number two. In New Zealand it has moved to a peak of three. On the issue dated October 29, 2009, "Bad Romance" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number twenty, it reached the top in its seventh week. The song charted within the top twenty on the UK Singles Chart at number fourteen on its first week, and on December 13, 2009 it climbed to number-one therefore making Lady Gaga the first female in British chart history to have three number-one singles in one calendar year, and only the third to do it in a any twelve month period. Two weeks later, on 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. In Sweden, the song debuted at three and after two weeks reached the top of the chart. Across Europe the song debuted on the main charts of Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. The song debuted on the European Hot 100 Singles at number forty and on the Billboard issue dated January 23, 2010, "Bad Romance" peaked the chart for one week.

Music video

During an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga confirmed that movie director Francis Lawrence had directed the music video, and that she was "impressed" with herself and the outcome of the music video. She explained, "I knew ability as a director is so much higher than what I could ." Her creative team Haus of Gaga managed the art direction for the video. 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."

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.'" The white latex suits in the video were designed off the character Max Wolf's costume for the movie Where the Wild Things Are. She also wears Alexander McQueen's 12-inch high shoes.

Concept

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. 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 iPod 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 presses 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 "Monster" 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 and performs somewhat of 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 stated, "I don't think Gaga has ever looked prettier than in the close-ups where she’s more stripped down. On the flip side, I love those crazy dilated pupils she sports for much of the video. This video is amazing." Jennifer Cady from 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." Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone felt that the scenes from the music video were reminiscent of the work of Stanley Kubrick. He went on to add that "'Bad Romance' has Gaga providing fans with perhaps her craziest, brightest canvas yet all while dressed in some of the most outrageous outfits she’s ever worn (and that’s saying a lot)." Jocelyn Vena from MTV believed that the video was symbolic and portrayed that the "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 " a testament to her brilliance as an artist that Gaga is using as the jump-off point for the next leg of her career. These days, it seems like pop stars all too rarely put this much thought into their vision and their products. The Wall Street Journal noted that Gaga "seems to be one of the few pop stars these days who really understands spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography—all the things Madonna and Michael Jackson were masters of in the 1980s." Bill Lamb from About.com wrote that "like the song blasts at your senses until you are just left drowning in the audio and visual power of it all. Lady Gaga continues to break down barriers and take us all to new places. In a music industry that too often seems to want to revisit whatever might have been successful in the past without breathing new material and elements into it, Lady Gaga remains a powerful force to observe. Evan Sawdey from PopMatters.com quotes on the video "it’s kind of bland. The chorus feeling like somewhat of a tired retread of the verses, the whole thing just lacking that extra spark that made her previous hits so guilty-pleasure cool. Instead, the song is best defined by its video.

Live performances

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". 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 (with some difficulty, owing to the elaborate costume) and played an acoustic version of the chorus of "Bad Romance". Gaga performed the song on the TV show Gossip Girl during the November 16, 2009 episode titled The Last Days of Disco Stick. The performance takes place at a private show arranged by the character Blair Waldorf who was trying to prove herself as a freshman at NYU. 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 also featured Gaga wearing a 35 foot long dress. According to the show's executive producer Stephanie Savage, the song incorporated a few Gossip Girl specific lyrics. The plot included Waldorf trying to impress her peers at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Gaga's alma mater. Her stepfather, who knew Gaga while she attended the university, was able to convince her to perform at the show. 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.

Gaga performed the song at the 2009 American Music Awards. She coupled it with another song from The Fame Monster titled "Speechless". Gaga was dressed in a flesh-colored bodysuit wrapped with white piping, embedded with flashing lights imitating ribs and a spine. The performance started with "Bad Romance"; then she segued into "Speechless" by using her microphone stand to break open a glass box with a piano inside. She sat on the piano bench and began the performance, while her piano caught on fire. Throughout the song, she continued to smash liquor bottles on the piano. 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. They eventually removed her jacket to reveal a low-cut tank top. Both "Bad Romance" and "Speechless" were performed at The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 25, 2009. Gaga performed "Bad Romance" on the British TV show The X Factor on December 6, 2009. The performance had the singer singing the song from a 4 metre long giant bath as well as playing the piano while sitting on a toilet. "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. The show ended with a video of Gaga getting a heart-shaped tattoo on her shoulder with the word "Dad" in the center of it.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

• Songwriting – RedOne, Lady Gaga
• Production – RedOne, Lady Gaga (co-production)
• Instruments and programming – RedOne
• Vocal arrangement – RedOne, Lady Gaga
• Vocal editing – RedOne, Johnny Severin
• Recording – RedOne
• Engineering – RedOne, Dave Russell, Eelco Bakker
• Background vocals – Lady Gaga, RedOne
• Mixing – Mark "Spike" Stent

Charts, certifications and procession

Chart procession and succession

Release history

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External links

• Lady Gaga : Video : Bad Romance Interscope Records
• Making of "Bad Romance" music video on YouTube

• 2009 singles
• Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles
• Canadian Hot 100 number-one singles
• European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles
• Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
• Lady Gaga songs
• Music videos directed by Francis Lawrence
• Number-one singles in Austria
• Number-one singles in Denmark
• Number-one singles in Finland
• Number-one singles in France
• Number-one singles in Germany
• Number-one singles in Italy
• Number-one singles in Norway
• Number-one singles in Russia
• Number-one singles in Spain
• Number-one singles in Sweden
• Songs produced by RedOne
• Songs written by Lady Gaga
• UK Singles Chart number-one singles