Song · Lady Gaga
“Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga
From the EP The Fame Monster (2009)
“Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga appears on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2009 on the EP The Fame Monster. Its best result is #14 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #197 indie & aaa song of 2010, #1,582 indie & aaa song of all time and #488 of the '00s.
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Lady Gaga needed something to lead off The Fame Monster, the 2009 EP that reissued her debut The Fame, and "Bad Romance" arrived like a fist in a velvet glove. After a rough demo leaked, she unveiled the finished track that October at Alexander McQueen's Paris Fashion Week show, which tells you exactly where her head was. She wrote and produced it with RedOne, and it was cut at the Record Plant.
The pair took their cue from German house and techno and bent it into dark, chilly electropop: a hook made of pure nonsense syllables, a spoken bridge, a chorus built for arenas. Under the gloss, Gaga was singing about the paranoia of life on tour and her pull toward love that's bad for her. Francis Lawrence's video, a white bathhouse nightmare of kidnapping and fire, took Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, and the song itself won a Grammy.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 387 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2022 | 43 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 396 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 741 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 48 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 14 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 56 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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