Bathhouse Booty

The video's choreography drew comparisons to that of Michael Jackson's Thriller. The white latex suits in the video were inspired by the wolf costume from the film Where the Wild Things Are. The video's main idea is that Gaga gets kidnapped by supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian mafia for a million rubles. It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse. The video begins as Gaga, wearing razor-blade glasses, sits on a white throne in a brightly lit white room while Johann Sebastian Bach's fugue BWV 869 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2) is playing in the background. As she plays "Bad Romance" on an iPod speaker, a dimly lit bathhouse is shown, which has a sign reading "Bath Haus of GaGa" on its walls. As the song's first hook begins, Gaga and other women in latex suits crawl out of white, coffin-like pods and begin dancing. A pastiche of ensuing scenes alternates between Gaga singing to herself in front of a mirror and lying in a bathtub. During the chorus, two women pull Gaga out of the bathtub, rip her top clothing off, and force her to drink a glass of vodka. As the second verse begins, Gaga, wearing a diamond-covered outfit and crown, seductively dances for men bidding for her. She performs a lap dance for one of them (played by Slovenian model Jurij Bradač), who becomes her highest bidder. When the chorus plays for the third time, Gaga is shown wearing a faux-polar bear hide jacket and walking toward the man, who is sitting on a bed and unbuttoning his shirt. Looking indifferent, she removes her jacket and sunglasses. The bed spontaneously combusts while he is still on it, and Gaga sings sinisterly in front of the flames. The video ends as she lies beside a smoldering skeleton on top of the destroyed bed covered in ashes. With soot smeared across her body, she calmly smokes a cigarette as her pyrotechnic bra activates. ^ Sawdey, Evan (November 12, 2009). "Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' Video: WTF?". PopMatters. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2022. ^ Cite error: The named reference MTV News was invoked but never defined (see the help page). ^ Dinh, James (November 11, 2009). "Lady Gaga Fans React To 'Bad Romance' Video". MTV News. Archived from the original on November 14, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2009. ^ "Jurij Bradač in Lady Gaga" [Jurij Bradač and Lady Gaga] (in Slovenian). MTV News. November 11, 2009. Archived from the original on March 30, 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2010.