Information about the original album version can be seen here. Some radio stations play a clean and shorter version of “Bad Romance”. The album version length of the song is 4:57, where the radio edit length is 4:22. Some lyrics from the album version are cut and replaced throughout the song to make the song shorter for radio. Also, the word “bitch” is removed from the song and is replaced with an edit lyric, “bit—”.

The radio edit of the song featured on NOW That’s What I Call Music: 30 Years and on the Germany Remix Version extended play.