"Bad Romance" received mostly positive reviews from critics. Lamb listed the song as one of the top tracks from The Fame Monster, and commented that "Lady Gaga's singing is at its best so far here as she moves from threatening to floating sweetness and back again. [...] If you had any fears that Gaga would be one album flash in the pan, the room filling beats and melodies of 'Bad Romance' should help dispel them." Gil Kaufman from MTV described the "minimal beat [of the song] stays at a low boil for most, [...] rising up in an ecstatic, Erasure-esque throb during the chorus, but lacking the immediate pull of some of Gaga's biggest hits to date". Other critics also found references to music from the 1980s. Sal Cinquemani from Slant characterized the song as one of the album's highlights and explained that "if melodies could be time-stamped, [this] would have '80s branded on [its ass]". Kitty Empire of The Guardian wrote that singles like "Bad Romance" make Gaga more comparable with Madonna.
Referring to her emerging popularity, Jon Dolan from Rolling Stone said that "'Bad Romance' makes [Gaga's] name a Teutonic chant". Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the catchiness of the hook of "Bad Romance", and Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH felt that the chorus of the song is Gaga's best yet. Pitchfork Media placed "Bad Romance" at number 39 in their top 100 tracks of 2009, saying it was "epic in construction". The dark nature of the music was noted by Simon Price in The Independent, who said that the first line of the song "I want your ugly, I want your disease" set the tone for the gothic nature of The Fame Monster. Likewise, Edna Gundersen of USA Today, "Synth-powered 'Bad Romance' is a ferocious club thumper with a sordid underbelly". The Boston Public Health Commission rated "Bad Romance" as number ten on their list of "Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients".
Mikale Wood of Los Angeles Times called the song "Europoppy", and at the BBC, Paul Lester stated the song is "cheesy" and that it is comparable to the music of Andy Warhol. Monica Herrera from Billboard stated that "Bad Romance" was not as catchy as Gaga's previous songs, but it had "wicked" sex appeal. Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone, while writing about the song's initial leak, felt that the song was comparable to "Poker Face" and was not on par with her other singles.
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