Bad Romance

"Bad Romance"
"Bad Romance"
Single by Lady Gaga
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Released	October 19, 2009
Recorded	2008
Studio	Record Plant (Los Angeles); FC Walvisch (Amsterdam);
Genre	Electropop; dance-pop;
Length	4:54 (album version); 4:21 (radio edit);
Label	Streamline; KonLive; Cherrytree; Interscope;
Songwriter(s)	Stefani Germanotta; Nadir Khayat;
Producer(s)	RedOne;
Lady Gaga singles chronology
	"Bad Romance" at YouTube

"Bad Romance" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga. It was released as the lead single from her third extended play (EP), and second major release The Fame Monster on August 12, 2009.

Gaga has said that the song is about being in love with a best friend. There are some lines sung in French in the song.

The song reached #1 in many countries including Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, while reaching #2 in the US and Australia. It was certified Diamond in America and has sold over 5.5 million downloads in that country. "Bad Romance" won Gaga the 2011 Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and for Best Short Form Music Video.^[1]

Music video

The video for the song starts off with Gaga and her dancers in a bathhouse, getting out of beds shaped like caskets. It features Gaga being auctioned off while in a white, open room. The end of the video shows her in bed, smoking, with a skeleton by her side.

On December 31, 2018, the music video for the song became Gaga's first to reach one billion views.^[2] It is the first music video from the 2000s decade to achieve this milestone. It is Gaga's most-watched music video.

Bad Romance Media

RedOne (pictured in 2017) co-wrote and co-produced the song with Gaga.
In the lyrics, Gaga name-checks three films by director Alfred Hitchcock (pictured).
Francis Lawrence (pictured in 2015) directed the music video.
Gaga performing the song during the revamped Monster Ball Tour in a mirrored dress and headpiece (2010)
Gaga singing "Bad Romance" as the opening number of 2022's The Chromatica Ball, a choice Nick Lavine of NME considered "daring".

References

↑ "Lady Gaga | Artist | GRAMMY.com". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
↑ "Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' Music Video Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-12.

[1] "Lady Gaga | Artist | GRAMMY.com". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-10-12.

[2] "Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' Music Video Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-12.

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