{"id":410829,"date":"2026-01-16T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:12:07","slug":"gwar-covers-chappell-roans-pink-pony-club-and-its-glorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410829\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwar Covers Chappell Roan&#8217;s &#8216;Pink Pony Club&#8217; and It&#8217;s Glorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scumdogs of the Universe deliver a thrilling rendition of the Grammy winner&#8217;s smash hit<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt smells so clean!\u201d yells a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gwar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gwar\" data-tag=\"gwar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gwar<\/a> bandmate off camera as the self-professed Scumdogs of the Universe step into Chelsea Studios. While New York may be a bit different from the recesses of hell, the crew settled right in, launching into a thrilling rendition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chappell-roan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chappell-roan\" data-tag=\"chappell-roan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chappell Roan<\/a>\u2018s massive hit, \u201cPink Pony Club,\u201d for A.V. Undercover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Bl\u00f6thar the Berserker\u00a0eases in to the song as best he can, soon the band amps up the stakes and when the frontman hits the chorus, belting out, \u201cGod, what have you done? You\u2019re a pink pony girl And you dance at the club\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s a sight, and sound, to behold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time the intergalatic headbangers rolled through for the A.V. Club\u2019s series \u2014 back in 2015, the regulars delivered a raging interpretation of Cyndi Lauper\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-gwar-thrash-through-cyndi-laupers-she-bop-71632\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She Bop<\/a>,\u201d and later kicked off the show\u2019s return in 2024 with a cover of Ryan Gosling\u2019s Barbie power ballad, \u201cI\u2019m Just Ken.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c\u2018Pink Pony Club\u2019 is about embracing exile from a boring, shitty world and remaking yourself into whatever you want\u2014be who you are, be who you aren\u2019t, piss people off, we don\u2019t care!\u201d the thrash metal\u00a0band said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d garnered moderate buzz during its release in 2020, the pop anthem rose in popularity four years later as part of Roan\u2019s breakthrough debut album,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chappell-roan-midwest-princess-freedom-queer-identity-1234828846\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess<\/a>. Roan captivated audiences when she performed the song at the 2025 Grammy Awards, where she won Best New Artist. The track is listed as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-songs-of-the-21st-century-1235410452\/chappel-roan-pink-pony-club-1235421066\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far <\/a>by Rolling Stone, which notes, \u201cIt\u2019s the pop anthem that best defines her joyful arrival as one of the most compelling pop voices of her generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scumdogs of the Universe deliver a thrilling rendition of the Grammy winner&#8217;s smash hit \u201cIt smells so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[43168,88,181140,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-410829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chappell-roan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gwar","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}