THE WORST VIDEO EVER OF THE WEEK: THE DEMONSTRATION COVER LADY GAGA’S “BAD ROMANCE”

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 10:30am by

Life is strange. For example, do you think that when I woke up yesterday I thought, “I bet I’ll write two headlines with Lady Gaga in ‘em in as many days?” Fuck no! Shit just happens sometimes.

So. This band The Demonstration recently released a video for a cover of Lady Gag’s “Bad Romance.” Here are the reasons I hate it:

  1. I hate ironic metal covers of pop songs. If you’re in a metal band and you choose to do an ironic pop cover, that tells me that a) your sense of humor isn’t very sophisticated, b) you’re severely lacking in original thought since 8,000 other bands have already done this, and c) fuck you.
  2. I hate ironic metal covers of recent pop songs even more. Because now you’re just appealing to teenagers who have no memory of anything older than a week. “See? It’s funny because it’s on the radio all the time RIGHT NOW, but we made it, like, all metal and shit!” Eat me.
  3. Rather than add some personality and find a way to make this song cool, The Demonstration have taken a song I didn’t like in the first place and added the scenester clichés of the day (chugga-chug guitars, vocoder mixed generic death metal vocals, etc); in other words, they took a bad song and made it bad in a different way. It’s like the choice between getting anally raped by a giant dildo or a giant dildo that’s a slightly different shape; either way, it’s gonna hurt, and I’m gonna be bleeding from the ass by the time it’s over.
  4. I appreciate cute, scantily-clad girls as much as the next dude, but I don’t think that anyone who has ever actually seen a naked lady up close will find this scintillating.

Hopefully this is the last time I’ll ever have to write about this band, but given our luck, some A&R dude is reading this right now thinking “I’m gonna sign these guys!”

-AR

  • http://00100 tarOfchaos

    fucking sux!

    • Ares

      And what else can you say about this besides “thumbs down?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Dasher/30826541 Matt Dasher

    This is why Behemoth should be the only extreme metal band to cover songs outside their genre.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

    maybe it’s not an ironic cover. maybe they love lady gaga more than anything in the world and this is their tribute to shim.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Bromeo-Powell/286400508 Rik Bromeo Powell

      It does seem rather like this is the case. Unfortunately that makes it even worse.

    • beardy

      hehe shim

  • SourDeez

    I made it 50 seconds before vomiting all over the place.

    • Jewers

      thats what she said

  • Stiggs

    The thing that’s most upsetting to me isn’t the vocals, the cover of another Lady Gaga song, or anything related to the music – it’s that they used 11-dollar fifths of Evan Williams like it’s the next badass drink to line up and tout. If these boys ever drank that stuff, they’d understand that no matter how much of it they drink, the resulting heartburn and next two days of shits won’t make them feel “ironic” or whatever bullshit they were trying to pull off.

    If I could get my band together to do a doom metal version of Akon’s “Sexy Bitch,” I know the first thing I’d line up tall boys of PBR, because THAT screams success. I mean, we’re terrible, but that could get us famous.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Sean-Heron/9391234 Ryan Sean Heron

      yea. I used to think evan williams whiskey was cool, then I graduated middle school. that shit is fucking nasty.

      • Lucifer Sam

        fuck williams whiskey.. i drank it once and yeah i got a shitty ass hang over and some hot shits for the rest of the day…… jack or jamesons or segrams are the tops… come on black tooth grin…. does no one have respect for your elders? your drunken, drunken elders?

    • Lucifer Sam

      fuck williams whiskey… jack or jamesons or segrams… are the tops… come one black tooth… does no one have respect for your elders?

  • Stiggs

    Oh, and the lighting of the cigar with a Zippo. Get some fucking class, assholes.

    Thanks for putting me in the mood, MetalSucks.

  • ArschEnemy

    Fuck those guys……..with a giant dildo !!!

  • Dimitry

    Why is everyone trying to be the next Ten Masked Men nowadays?

  • Colin

    I thought that shit was funny, does no one have a sense of humor here?

    • Courtney

      Apparently nobody does! If anybody has seen them live they are actually a great band. :) They did the Lady Gaga cover as a joke anyway. It wasn’t supposed to “get them famous” or anything of the nature. I mean people should listen to their other stuff before basing their opinion off one song, just saying.

  • http://www.myspace.com/dragmymiserydown myke

    stop using auto tune you jackasses!!! certain people who can’t sing shouldn’t sing @ all so stop this bullshit

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Parker/1048411723 Stephen Parker

    Yes.
    And sadly these guys got a ridiculous amount of coverage for this.

  • braincake

    oh come on, i bet you guys would loving this if they had done it first. :)

  • http://www.theoppositionmachine.wordpress.com the opposition machine

    this band needs to get raped by a chainsaw…STAT

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Sean-Heron/9391234 Ryan Sean Heron

    the only thing funny about this is thinking about this emo core d-bags standing around in their practice space spending days upon end practicing this song to get it down perfectly. listening to it over and over again.

    i think they put that scene with the whiskey bottles in there just to make us think they weren’t gay. “see, we drink whiskey, we’re cool”

  • Brett

    This sucks for the same reason that almost all cross-genre covers suck – instead of breaking down the song and rearranging it in a meaningful or interesting way, it’s basically just “LOLZ look at us playing a light song heavy-style (or heavy song light-style)!!!!! Isn’t it so crazy that we would do such a thing???”

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

      Have you heard Tori Amos’ cover of Raining Blood? It’s actually really good, and not at all what you’re implying here. It does what you’ve mentioned: “rearranging it in a meaningful or interesting way.”

  • http://hookinmouth.net Hookinmouth.net

    They’re already signed to Mediaskare with CM distribution.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Irwin/612231572 Mark Irwin

    I cannot for the life of me understand what this fascination with Tranny GagGag is. “Oooh, I dress differently from other vapid pop cunts! That means everyone likes me!”

    And this band needs to sell their equipment, cut their hair and get real jobs. Since it’s obvious that making bland deathcore isn’t going to be getting them recognized for much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFU7DbU9-z8

    ^ how to correctly make an awesome metal cover of lady gaga

  • soy el niño más bonito

    bad romance is a great song

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

    Wow…. that sucks.

  • EJ666

    I can’t believe that douche kept a straight face while growling “I want your luuuuuv, luuuv, luuuuuv”.

  • PD

    I liked the Demonstration’s one EP. This killed everything about the band for me. SO HORRIBLE. I still like that one EP though.

  • PD

    And LOL @ 3:28. That motherfucker does cartwheels during live sets. Seen it once on a video. I would see them live just to see that happen.

  • tobytobiasjones

    COME ON GUYZ! BASS DROPS! UH-HYUK!

  • ripptuff

    that put me in worse mood than im already in.

    i actually like lady gaga for real.
    and i dont have gary suarez’s taste in metal
    so i think im doin good for myself.
    now, im no expert on anything.
    but that was appalling.

    who let that douche leave the house with that voice?

  • Satch Armstrong

    God fucking dammit, he’s singing into a purple dildo

  • Brian

    not so stoked about the cover, but the Demonstration is a great band. I thought that Accidents with Intelligence was one of the better albums of 2008.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfukZyVi9Hk

    This is the good “metal” version of Bad Romance. And it should kept that way.

  • Lucifer Sam

    i wish i could go back in time when lady gaga was overdose’in around new york as a shitty unknown artist and replace her coke with some heroin without her knowing…

    i wish i could go back in time and give her dad testicle cancer before she was ever conceived

    i wish i would go back in time and kill what ever douche though it was a good idea to fuck around with the auto tune option when cher was recording her historic first auto tuned song that gave birth to the past 5 years of suck…

    i wish i could go back in time in general…

  • Sickboy666

    Yeah, well, I actually like most of Lady Gaga’s songs, but this shit sucks real, real bad.

  • kmfcm

    When will people learn?
    If Eric Cartman can’t make these songs listenable, neither can you!

    Stop fucking trying.

  • Evan

    new rule: If any member of your band is wearing a deep-v neck shirt and suspenders, it doesn’t matter what you play, you’re no longer a metal band. Jesus Christ.

    • Alex_P

      Yeah, seriously. Dude looks like he’s in Hedley.

  • canea

    well, that was a circus.

  • Kye

    Seen these guys a couple of times (usually opening for Killwhitneydead, since it’s the same band but with a different singer and they sound nothing alike) and I always dug them. Never thought they were awesome or anything, but I own their first EP and listen to it occasionally and they always had a good show.

    That said, about 5 seconds into this I’m wondering if there aren’t multiple bands called The Demonstration, cause this blows (and I like the original, bite me), sounds nothing like them, and the band looks significantly more scened up than they did two years ago when I last heard from them.

  • Stanley

    The Tre Watson album you guys posted about has a cover of Lady Gaga’s telephone song….its not bad , he is just played his own music over her singing.

  • Ziltoid

    I happen to like ironic metal covers of pop songs. When done correctly, it’s actually quite refreshing. But unfortunately, most of the time, it turns out to be awful. “Bad Romance” has so much potential for a good, creative metal cover, but this is just atrocious shitcore.

    • Alex_P

      It could maybe work if the song itself is a good pop song to begin with. Michael Jackson, A-ha, David Bowie, etc. If the song is annoying to begin with, then the concept might be doomed. Current pop is just too annoying to work, even ironically.

      Also, LATFH.

      • Steph

        Bad Romance is a good pop song. Nowhere near Bowie or Prince or anything but still pretty good. To be fair those guys could cover anything and it would sound terrible.

  • Bryan Daniel

    it makes me angry that so many good bands out there are hurting, money wise. And then these douchers have the money to record this song, release it, and film a high quality music video. And probably get signed and put on a big tour because of it.

    • Alex_P

      Music which sells to teenagers, friend.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deven-Marie-Laney/674055234 Deven Marie Laney

    KILL IT WITH FIRE

    • Alex_P

      Good solution to your problems.

  • KB

    I want your wuv wuv wuv

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Morley/618112437 William Morley

    How the fuck do these douche-bags afford to make a video like this. And if you could afford it, why make the video of a shit pop song which is only going to get you like 10 minutes of fame. FUCK THIS.

  • BC

    While I have to agree with Axl that this is a shit cover; in fact it really just made me want to puke. I disagree that all these kinds of covers are insufferable. I’ll probably get tons of flak for this but fuck it Throwdown’s cover of Baby Got Back is infinitely entertaining! Not because it is an exceptional cover or because they changed any key pieces but simply because it is damn funny. I don’t take the covers seriously but when I live in a world where many of the people around me are pop music people throwing a curveball like this at them can really throw them off. You can’t take these covers seriously even if the bands that record them do. Just laugh because that’s why it was created, even if not purposely. Don’t download the mp3 just bookmark the video and next time you have to be around some pussy bitch who listens to pop just throw something like this at them and laugh while they cry. Now commence with the flaming about the fact that I like Throwdown (oh and while you’re at feel free to mock me for laughing hysterically whenever I hear I Set My Friends On Fire’s cover of Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

  • Death to bro metal

    It’s official metal is dead

  • The Demonstration

    Alll of these comments, and this page itself, is exactly why we made this video. We were bored with downtime while not touring and working on our third full-length and did this for fun, and to see how much shit people would talk. i mean we all played in killwhitneydead, so we’re used to getting talked shit on, and this tops it dudes! but you metal fans should go look of and listen our first record called “existence” that came out in 2006. its a really thought provoking experimental and progressive record that we wrote as teenagers, that took us about 3 years to write….we also put out an ep and melodic metalcore full length on mediaskare/century media records in 2008. the demonstration has played and experimented with about every type of music across the board, and covering a pop song a joke for fun stirs up the most shit, not surprising. but funny as shit to us. its all fun and games.

  • BC

    Well see now you guys are suppoting what I was saying you made this cover for shits and goggles to stir shit up. (Although I am a Killwhitneydead fan and I expect much better from you gentlemen I think you guys could have made a much better cover) but that isn’t the point. The point is the people here nd metalheads in general take everything way too seriously this what meant to be fun the same as August Burns Red’s cover of hit me baby one more time. I applaud you for giving this song the metal treatment and I’m not doubting your guys prowess on your intruments; however I still think you guys could have done better with this.

  • Fuckyou

    its so easy to be a critic when you have no talent. All you haters are just jealous you sit home beating off and playing world of warcraft. Fuck you guys it was obviously a joke . Stop Hating and start creating. At least these guys have a life and even if they do cover shit songs they are not wasting there time blogging . Fuck you losers

  • http://tfw2005.com Lumpy

    i’m gonna go on a limb and say the cover is just so so, the video is pretty bad, but i decided to check out their other stuff on myspace, and i actually kinda dig them… maybe i’ll drop the 8 bucks for their album…

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Dante-Roman/638793874 Derek Dante Roman

      do it and see them live you will be happy for buying it

  • http://tfw2005.com Lumpy

    and i also agree that cover songs don’t need to be some ground breaking earth shattering awe inspiring walk on water magical event, they’re just fun…

  • The Demonstration

    we also did a cover on our last record of third eye blinds “hows it gonna be”….one of the best bands ever. thats on our myspace player as well…with no screaming at all, and nobody really had anything to say about that for some reason.

  • Matt

    you guys are IDIOTS. do some research. he doesn’t use autotune except on this song, i’m assuming to give it an “electronic” effect. so, to Axl Rosenberg and the people that are generally distasteful, here’s a big

    FUCK YOU from Charlotte, NC!

  • Andy

    Ur a fucking dumbass. The demonstration is one of the best metal bands around!!! They are already signed and I hope you do write more about them because if you hated them so bad why give the exposure???

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Dante-Roman/638793874 Derek Dante Roman

    no one cares, they didn’t even that hard to make this song its was a joke and all of you and the whole world ate it up by liking it or hating it but no matter what they will still be here and kicking ass live some where near you some time go out see them live and i bet you will like them best shows ever

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ashley-Dawn-Howard/100000570013876 Ashley Dawn Howard

      agrrreeeeedd!

  • joey

    if you knew anything the members in this band are signed…this is the project they open their shows up with, it’s kinda a chinese fire drill. show’s how much you know and how little of a sense of humor you have. people should appreciate things more

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Reynolds/100000463744194 Ray Reynolds

    Everybody can talk shit about this band but i know the guys personally. Their are very chill and the song doesnt suck. Dumbasses just need something to hate nowadays. And i plan on seeing the on the 21st with killwhitneydead.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ashley-Dawn-Howard/100000570013876 Ashley Dawn Howard

    Ummm, The Demonstration is a local band in my area, and I’ve been to just about every single show, so to all of you that say they suck, well you can go suck on one, i know how great they are, all you know of is the cover they did, if you saw them live you would gizz in your pants, so how about get some taste in music and than try criticizing the greatest hardcore band ever, the demonstration is EPICCCCC