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A.V. Undercover, the A.V. Club’s series in which bands were invited to be filmed performing a cover chosen from an ever-dwindling list of pre-selected songs, is one of the great blog-era video franchises. It went away in the 2010s, but new ownership brought it back with a vengeance in 2024, starting with GWAR covering “I’m Just Ken,” Ryan Gosling’s power ballad from the Barbie soundtrack.
GWAR, the longstanding Virginia metal band that performs in grotesque, fantastical costumes, are veterans of the A.V. Undercover scene, and they’ve once again returned to that universe today to take on another iconic pop song. This time it’s “Pink Pony Club,” the 2020 Chappell Roan single about becoming a dancer at a Hollywood queer club that became a late-breaking smash years later when Roan rose to fame, previously covered by the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Corey Taylor, and the Dismemberment Plan.
GWAR performed the cover at Chelsea Studios in NYC, attempting to transform “the song’s glitter-drenched celebration of identity and self-expression into a full-scale alien-metal spectacle.” In a press release, vocalist the Berzerker Blöthar said, “‘Pink Pony Club’ is about embracing exile from a boring, shitty world and remaking yourself into whatever you want — be who you are, be who you aren’t, piss people off, we don’t care!”
Watch below.
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