{"id":293675,"date":"2026-01-20T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293675\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:21:17","slug":"is-gwars-pink-pony-club-cover-better-than-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293675\/","title":{"rendered":"Is GWAR’s ‘Pink Pony Club’ Cover Better Than The Original?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a9 Reese Strickland\/For the Register \/ USA TODAY NETWORK \/ \u00a9 Dan MacMedan<\/p>\n

The best cover songs are versions that breathe new life into the original. They must have great source material to begin with but then transform it into something special.<\/p>\n

That is exactly what has happened with GWAR<\/strong>\u2018s cover of \u2018Pink Pony Club<\/strong>\u2018 by Chappell Roan<\/strong>, a Synth\/Disco-Pop track about a woman moving from Tennessee to Southern California where she dances at a midnight cabaret against the wishes of her family. You know the song. It\u2019s been everywhere for years. But now we have GWAR<\/a>\u2018s version and it goes hard.<\/p>\n

GWAR\u2019s Cover Of \u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 By Chappell Roan<\/p>\n

Chappell Roan<\/a> has had multiple hits to be sure but it is also fair to say that virtually all of her success has been built on the back of \u2018Pink Pony Club.\u2019 It took some time for the music industry to catch on.<\/p>\n

She first released the track in 2020 and it wasn\u2019t until five years later at the 2025 Grammy Awards that she\u2019d win \u2018Best New Artist\u2019 after \u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 went multi-platinum around the globe. Her other hits include but are not limited to \u2018Good Luck, Babe!\u2019 and \u2018Hot to Go!\u2019 but it is \u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 that seemed to take her career to the next level virtually overnight.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there\u2019s GWAR. The Thrash Metal \/ Shock Rock band from Richmond, Virginia who has quietly been making awesome music since the 80s while donning the most outrageous costumes of any band in in the industry.<\/p>\n

About a year and a half ago, GWAR swing by the A.V. Club studio for the first A.V. Club Undercover session in 7 years to put their spin on \u2018I\u2019m Just Ken\u2019<\/a> from the Barbie movie. And now GWAR are back with this glorious cover of \u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 by Chappell Roan.<\/p>\n

The lyrics \u201cjust having fun on stage in my heels\u201d hit different when it\u2019s coming from GWAR dressed as Sci-Fi mythical warrior beasts:<\/p>\n

I hope someone in the production studio landed the joke \u2018I hope they play Pink Pony Club\u2019 before GWAR took the stage. That emerged as one of the more popular TikTok trends in the past year or so with people at concerts saying \u201cI hope they play\u2026\u2019 only to reveal they are at what is a virtual opposite concert, exactly like this scenario.<\/p>\n

Someone in the YouTube comments wrote \u201cwhat an excellent use of free will\u201d which is another popular copy\/pasta comment on social media. It really is apt here though. They could have came out and played anything but GWAR crushed \u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 from start to finish.<\/p>\n

We need more of this. GWAR should release a covers album in 2026. Who says no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Reese Strickland\/For the Register \/ USA TODAY NETWORK \/ \u00a9 Dan MacMedan The best cover songs are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[146189,18,117,143576,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-293675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chappel-roan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gwar","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115926694956271747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}