GWAR has launched a shocking cowl of Chappell Roan‘s hit ‘Pink Pony Membership’.
The costumed metallic band are the newest friends on The A.V. Membership’s newest season of A.V. Undercover, the place they stopped by Chelsea Studios in New York Metropolis to rework the 2023 hit right into a thrash metallic tune.
“‘Pink Pony Membership’ is about embracing exile from a boring, shitty world and remaking your self into no matter you need — be who you might be, be who you aren’t, piss individuals off, we don’t care!” stated the Berserker Blóthar, GWAR’s vocalist.
Try their cowl under:
It’s not the primary time GWAR have produced an “intergalactic metallic” take on an surprising tune – in 2024, they coated ‘I’m Simply Ken’ from the Barbie film.
As well as, regardless of their variations in musical fashion, Roan and GWAR actually share comparable values. In November, Blöthar the Berserker signed a bidet that was aucitioned by John Oliver to lift funds for public broadcasting. Blöthar had beforehand hit out on the proposed cuts to public media, which adopted Trump signing an government order that might finish the federal funding for organisations together with NPR and PBS two months earlier than.
GWAR additionally got here underneath fireplace from Trump supporters in September following their Riot Fest set. Throughout their set on the Chicago competition, they continued their long-standing custom of finishing up a mock execution on stage.
Earlier presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Invoice Clinton and Ronald Reagan have all been the topic of the fake assassinations earlier than, as have the likes of Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson.
When Trump and Elon Musk had been the targets in Chicago, it proved controversial. One individual wrote, “That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalises violence towards an actual individual. This isn’t okay. Riot Fest and Gwar crossed a significant line,” whereas one other merely stated, “The left is really sick.”
The band responded, saying in a press release to Billboard that the thought they’re normalising violence is “absurd”.
“We’re not millionaires which might be afraid of what persons are going to say after they see what we do… We’re a gaggle of artists that makes artwork, and it’s actually the concept what we’ve performed is normalising violence… There’s nothing regular in regards to the violence that goes on at a Gwar present,” he added.
“It’s a cartoon, it’s Looney Tunes… It’s making an attempt to make violence right into a spectacle and present humanity’s absolute absurdity. That’s what Gwar is, it’s absurdism. To say it’s normalising violence is basically reaching.”
