GWAR has launched a shocking cowl of Chappell Roan‘s hit ‘Pink Pony Membership’.
The costumed steel band are the newest visitors on The A.V. Membership’s newest season of A.V. Undercover, the place they stopped by Chelsea Studios in New York Metropolis to remodel the 2023 hit right into a thrash steel music.
“‘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!” mentioned the Berserker Blóthar, GWAR’s vocalist.
Try their cowl beneath:
It’s not the primary time GWAR have produced an “intergalactic steel” take on an surprising music – in 2024, they coated ‘I’m Simply Ken’ from the Barbie film.
As well as, regardless of their variations in musical type, Roan and GWAR definitely 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 may finish the federal funding for organisations together with NPR and PBS two months earlier than.
GWAR additionally got here below hearth from Trump supporters in September following their Riot Fest set. Throughout their set on the Chicago pageant, 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 particular person wrote, “That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalises violence towards an actual particular person. This isn’t okay. Riot Fest and Gwar crossed a serious line,” whereas one other merely mentioned, “The left is really sick.”
The band responded, saying in a press release to Billboard that the concept they’re normalising violence is “absurd”.
“We’re not millionaires which might be afraid of what individuals are going to say once they see what we do… We’re a gaggle of artists that makes artwork, and it’s actually the concept that what now we have finished 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 absolutely reaching.”
