A.V. Undercover, the A.V. Membership’s sequence during which bands had been invited to be filmed performing a canopy chosen from an ever-dwindling checklist of pre-selected songs, is without doubt one of the nice blog-era video franchises. It went away within the 2010s, however new possession introduced it again with a vengeance in 2024, beginning with GWAR masking “I am Simply Ken,” Ryan Gosling’s energy ballad from the Barbie soundtrack.
GWAR, the longstanding Virginia steel band that performs in grotesque, fantastical costumes, are veterans of the A.V. Undercover scene, they usually’ve as soon as once more returned to that universe right this moment to tackle one other iconic pop tune. This time it is “Pink Pony Membership,” the 2020 Chappell Roan single about changing into a dancer at a Hollywood queer membership that turned a late-breaking smash years later when Roan rose to fame, beforehand coated by the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Corey Taylor, and the Dismemberment Plan.
GWAR carried out the duvet at Chelsea Studios in NYC, trying to rework “the tune’s glitter-drenched celebration of identification and self-expression right into a full-scale alien-metal spectacle.” In a press launch, vocalist the Berzerker Blöthar stated, “‘Pink Pony Membership’ is about embracing exile from a boring, shitty world and remaking your self into no matter you need — be who you’re, be who you aren’t, piss folks off, we don’t care!”
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