Gagapedia
Register
Advertisement
Gagapedia

"Marry the Night" is a song by Lady Gaga from her third album Born This Way. It served as the fifth and final single from album and is the first track on the album. It was written in 2009. The song was registered on BMI on May 17th, 2011.

Background

The song title was revealed through an interview with Ryan Seacrest on February 15th, 2011. Lady Gaga not only mentioned that it's one of her favorite songs off the album, but also that it's a "club-banger". During an interview with Billboard magazine, Gaga stated that it was the last track on the album, and that it was originally planned to be the lead single. During an interview with The Skorpion Show, Gaga announced that the song will be used as a promotional single for the album, being released before the album drops. In the same interview, she also stated that the song is a potential third single, however she "wants to leave it up to the fans to decide when the album comes out" about what song will become the official third single. The third single released, however, was "The Edge of Glory". NME described the song as a "peak-era Whitney Houston-esque pop euphoria up top, with churning techno grinding underneath." Gaga has stated that this song is her first hit record created by her and Fernando Garibay and that the song is like the musical love child of Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen.

Lady Gaga also mentioned that “["Marry the Night"] is about [her] going back to New York. [She] wrote [the song] about the courage it took for [her] to say ‘I hate Hollywood, I just wanna live in Brooklyn and make music’.” She reiterated this sentiment in her interview with E! News, saying that the song was about her not assimilating to Hollywood and moving back to New York and to go back to her friends and family in her old apartment which she's been living in.

Lady Gaga has been working with producer Fernando Garibay for years, with the first fruits of their labor being "Dance in the Dark." But, as Lady Gaga put it in MTV's "Inside the Outside" documentary, the pair had yet to "conceive" a hit record when she began work on Born This Way. That all changed when Gaga heard the church-bell-filled sounds Garibay had concocted while on the road for the Monster Ball Tour. "He goes, 'Your show is a religion and your fans are a cult. It's this epic music. It's just so big. And I started to cry. He said, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'I can't believe that you hear me so big.' " Gaga sat down, and lyrics for what would become the "Marry the Night" just started pouring out: "I'm gonna marry the night/ I won't give up on my life."

It's like Whitney, but imagine if Bruce Springsteen had a baby with Whitney Houston — that's what it is. And that was it! We made a baby. Finally. After all that fornication, miserably long and tedious, Fernando and I finally conceived.

Lady Gaga in "Inside the Outside"

When MTV News sat down with Garibay[1], he told his side of the "Marry the Night" conception. "I just kind of got on the American leg of the tour — this was after Australia — and she goes, 'I want to write another song that can define where I'm at with this album and my life.' " So Garibay listened again to their first collaboration, "Dance in the Dark," and tried to top that energy. "I remember being backstage and hearing the concert start, so I go out there and hear 'Dance in the Dark' open up the whole concert, and I wanted to outdo that feeling. I wanted to outdo that moment that opens up the show. I'm just that way."

Garibay did his thing while Gaga was onstage doing hers. "I go back to the studio bus; I'm just like working on parts, working on parts, and then, two hours later, she comes offstage, and she goes, 'Do you have something to play me?' " he said. "And I go, 'I do, actually. It's a little different, but I think you'll like it.'

"So I played her the instrumental for 'Marry the Night,' and she goes, 'I love it, but can you change this?' So she starts changing around a few chords, and then she goes, 'Open up a mic.' ... She starts laying down the whole song, like, off the cuff. She didn't have time to live with it. She kind of meditated a few minutes, and then it's like, 'OK, I'm ready. Let's go.' And right offstage, using the energy of that crowd and going into the studio, it was amazing. I can't compare it to anything."

That incomparable feeling was exactly what Gaga was aiming for with Garibay: "I kept saying to him, 'I don't want to do anything I've done before, I don't want to sound like anything I've done before, I don't want to feel like anything I've done before. I want it to be new.' "

On May 14th, 2011, in Taipei, DJ Zedd played a portion of his remix of the song, which was later released on the Special Edition pressing of Born This Way.

In the lyrics of the song, Ginger, one of Lüc Carl's cars is mentioned.
Gaga stated that the music of the song was created when she told Fernando Garibay that she is married to New York. As soon as Fernando laid the beat for the song, Gaga started singing the verses; she hadn't yet written the chorus of the song, but then as the music played as she left the studio, the chorus of the song just came to her. When answering fans' questions on Twitter, Gaga revealed that the lyrics to "Marry the Night" came to her the quickest.
Lady Gaga first heard the church-bell-filled sounds that Garibay had concocted for this tune while on the road for the Monster Ball Tour. She recalled in the MTV documentary Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside: "He goes, 'Your show is a religion and your fans are a cult. It's this epic music. It's just so big.'. And I started to cry. He said, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'I can't believe that you hear me so big.' " Gaga sat down, and lyrics immediately started pouring out: "I'm gonna marry the night/ I won't give up on my life," she wrote.

Lady Gaga started her performance of this song on the UK edition of The X Factor broadcast on November 13th, 2011, by emerging from a confessional dressed as a decapitated corpse, carrying her own head. She later explained to chat show host Alan Carr that the show's producers gave her free rein to do whatever she wanted with her presentation. ""Marry the Night" is about marrying your obstacles and marrying the challenges that you face in order to become great or achieve your dreams. So, I just thought it would be a funny metaphor to achieve my dreams and sing on X Factor with my head cut off. The show must go on."

When asked by The Hollywood Reporter about which song he would want to see as a single, Garibay responded "I'm really proud of "Marry the Night," and I hope that it gets its single time." During the MUGLER Fashion Show on September 28th, 2011, Nicola Formichetti told fans that the song would serve as the fifth official single from the album.

During the interview with Katy Couric for A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, Gaga stated that the song is about committing yourself whole-heartedly to something. And for Gaga, that was her music.

Promotion

"Marry the Night" was the featured track on Tap Tap Revenge 4 as a free download in December of 2011. "Marry the Night" was New Years Eve Special Free Tap Tap Thursday track, which was re-released on January 2nd, 2012. This version of in-game track included a special New Years Theme which featured the song's single artwork.

Commercial release

An instrumental clip of the song was used during Transmission Gagavision 43 which was released on April 20th, 2011. The song played as Gaga typed in "Marry the Night" alphanumerically on her phone (62779-843-64448).

Lady Gaga first premiered "Marry the Night" on the HBO Monster Ball Special, which aired on May 7th, 2011. While preparing to take the stage, she sang a cappella: "I'm gonna marry the night/ I won't give up on my life/ I'm a warrior queen/ Live passionately tonight."

"Marry the Night" was released to the online game FarmVille on May 17th, 2011. This day the album version of the song was premiered on GagaVille, a subdivision of FarmVille that Gaga helped design with game promotion company Zynga (it was the first day of Gaga's collaboration with Zynga).

The song was distributed to US radio on November 15th, 2011.

Artwork

On October 17th, 2011, Lady Gaga revealed the official artwork for the song via TwitPic citing the lyrics from the bridge of the song, "New York Is Not Just A Tan That You'll Never Lose". Before tweeting the artwork, she wrote: "This is my favorite song on the album. Are you ready [producer] @FERNANDOGARIBAY? This one is our baby." An hour later, she wrote "Do you want the #MARRY THE NIGHT SINGLE COVER tonight?" and added "If monsters make MARRY THE NIGHT SINGLE COVER the number one trending topic I will release it tonight. Early. SORRY INTERSCOPE! I LOVE THEM!". The artwork shows her sitting atop a rain-soaked Trans-Am while another vehicle burns in the background. She is wearing a pair of over-the-knee leather boots, a sculpted top and shorts while shaking her blond hair. AOL's Contessa Gayles described the artwork as a "mysterious night-crawler."

Physical releases

Germany

MarrytheNight-slimcase Label: Streamline, Interscope, Kon Live
Format: Slimline jewel case
Released: December 2, 2011
Barcode: 0602527910024
Photography: David Swanson (2011)
Design: Not credited

Europe

Released in the United Kingdom as a limited `Black Friday´ Record Store edition

MarrytheNight-vinyl Label: Streamline, Interscope, Kon Live
Format: 7" picture disc vinyl
Released: December 5, 2011
Barcode: 602527894638
Photography: David Swanson (2011, side A), Terry Richardson Studio (2011, side B)
Design: Not credited
Side A (45RPM)
Side B (33RPM)

Digital releases

The Remixes

MarrytheNight-TheRemixes Label: Interscope
Format: Digital
Released: December 20, 2011
Barcode: None
Photography: Terry Richardson Studio (2011)
Design: Not credited

Remixes

  • David Jost & Twin Radio Mix — 3:30
  • Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 'Marry Me' Remix — 5:51
  • The Weeknd & Illangelo Remix — 4:12
  • Zedd Remix — 4:20
  • Zedd 'Extended' Remix — 6:14
  • Sander van Doorn Remix — 5:38
  • Afrojack Remix — 9:18
  • John Dahlbäck Remix — 5:19
  • Sidney Samson Remix — 4:44
  • R3hab Remix — 4:54
  • Lazy Rich Remix — 5:42
  • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Remix — 5:58
  • Quintino Remix — 5:52
  • Danny Verde Remix — 7:45

Performances

Lyrics

I'm gonna marry the night, I won’t give up on my life
I'm a warrior queen, live passionately tonight
I'm gonna marry the dark, gonna make love to the stark
I'm a soldier to my own emptiness, I'm a winner
I'm gonna marry the night, I'm gonna marry the night
I'm gonna marry the night

I'm gonna marry the night
I'm not gonna cry anymore
I'm gonna marry the night
Leave nothing on these streets to explore

Ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night
Oh, ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night

I'm gonna lace up my boots, throw on some leather and cruise
Down the streets that I love, in my fishnet gloves, I'm a sinner
Then I'll go down to the bar, but I won't cry anymore
I'll hold my whiskey up high, kiss the bartender twice, I'm a loser
I'm gonna marry the night
I'm gonna marry the night

I'm gonna marry the night
I'm not gonna cry anymore
I'm gonna marry the night
Leave nothing on these streets to explore

Ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night
Oh, ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night

Nothing's too cool to take me from you
New York is not just a tan that you never lose
Love is the new denim or black
Skeleton guns are wedding bells in the attic
Get Ginger ready, climb to El Camino front
Won't poke holes in the seat with my heels
'Cause that's where we make love
Come on and run
Turn the car on and run

I'm gonna marry the night (The night)
I'm gonna burn a hole in the road
I'm gonna marry the night (The night)
Leave nothing on these streets to explore

Ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry (Marry)
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night (The night)
Oh, ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry (Marry, marry)
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night (The night)
Oh, ma-ma-ma-marry, ma-ma-ma-marry
Ma-ma-ma-marry the night

I'm gonna marry, marry
I'm gonna marry, marry
C'mon, c'mon
The night, the night, the night
(Gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna)
The night, the night, the night
(Gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna)
The night, the night, the night, the night
(Gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna)
The night, the night, the night, the night
(Gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna)
The night, the night, the night
(Gonna, g-gonna, gonna, g-gonna)

Music video

Marry_The_Night
Premiere date December 1, 2011
Director(s) Lady Gaga
Fashion director Nicola Formichetti at Haus of Gaga
Choreographer Richard Jackson at Haus of Gaga
Director of photography Darius Khondji

Lady Gaga started filming the music video in Staten Island, New York on October 10th, 2011. Notable people present at the video shoot included Jenna Ushkowitz, who is known for playing Tina on Glee, Dina, and Pepper, Gaga's back-up dancers in 2008. On October 12th, 2011, Lady Gaga tweeted that 30,000 feet of film and counting has been used for the videoshoot.

On November 20th, 2011, Lady Gaga went on Alan Carr: Chatty Man and explained the meaning behind the video.

"I know how rejection feels in the business. I got signed, I got dropped, I got signed again. That's actually what the 'Marry the Night' video is about. It's about one of the most horrible days of my life when I got dropped from my first record label and it's the story of what happened that day."

In an E! interview published on the day of the music video's premiere, December 1st, 2011, Lady Gaga explained that the video is a rendering of the day she thought she saw her dreams slipping away from her — when she was dropped from her first label, Island Def Jam, and then revealed some details about the whole music video:

Although it is [music video] autobiographical. There is an element of surrealism that was important to me. The moment in the video accounts a day in my life when I was not only in the hospital or in this clinic but on that same exact day I was dropped from my first record label. [...] The video in itself is a recollection not just of what happened but what continues to happen to me on a daily basis with my career. [...] It was important to me to push the boundaries, how far can we go with the reality of how terrifying it truly was and how can I twist the reality of what happened into something that feels victorious by the end. It was important to me to string these sorts of thoughts and fantasies together in order to in my own way create a psychology. [...] Everything in the video is real.

Lady Gaga on E!

It was one of the worst days of my life and it happened quite quickly, but in my mind, when I think back on that period of my life, it all happened very slow.

Lady Gaga on E!

As for what, exactly, Lady Gaga means by "Marry the Night," loyal fans already know that it's a love song of sorts to New York City. But the video is more than that — about marrying, as it were, your own personal obstacles. When asked what Lady Gaga considered the biggest obstacle, she said: "I don't know, I don't have an answer to that question. I love the obstacles. To marry your obstacles mean I, the artist, wholeheartedly accept everything you throw at me, I am destined to struggle, I am destined to write music about the struggle, and I accept it willingly."

Also during this interview Lady Gaga talked about "Marry The Night: The Prelude Pathétique":

There's something quite comical about the opening of the video even though it's very sort of sinister and dark. In essence the first 7 minutes of the video is insight into my entire creative process and the way that I view things. It's my internal monologue as, as I'm being rolled down the hallway not just as how I felt then but as out how I feel now.

Lady Gaga on E!

Lady Gaga also mentioned that the most realistic moment in the music video is the scene where she is naked in her own apartment in New York:

That's probably the most autobiographical, realistic moment in the whole video, that scene. I actually blacked out the next morning I don't remember really very much of doing that scene at all. My directorial decision was for them to just fucking roll the cameras. [...] Because I couldn't go in and out of the moment as an actress I had to relive that moment all over again and there's no way to go in and out of that experience, and also be able to direct the camera.

Lady Gaga on E!

Additionally, according to MTV, with references to everything from "Fame" and "Black Swan" to "The Bell Jar," "Marry the Night" music video is a sweeping look into Gaga's psyche[2].

The singer revealed the meaning behind the wardrobe for the music video:

One of the ways that we chose for fashion to be a metaphor in this video. We created this twisted broken ballet. I was never the ballerina. I was never the perfect dancer. I was always the broken bird in the background. The video it's about the broken bird being brought to the front of the class. So that scene, for example, the, the ballet outfits are made of rubber, and the shoes are elongated and strange, and they're toe shoes which represented like sort of the impossible Everest of my existence. And so we, we use them in the video as a representation of obstacle, as well as a representation of perfection.

Lady Gaga on E!

Lady Gaga also claimed: "I wonder if I will actually release that scene in its entirety—it's about 30 minutes long."

Gaga released a video teaser titled "The Prelude Pathétique" on November 17th, 2011. A second preview of the video was released in conjunction with ABC's special A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. It features Gaga and her dancers performing a routine in a dance studio.

Gaga announced via twitter on November 29th, 2011 that the video is set to premiere on December 1st, 2011.

The video runs a total length of 13:48, but on almost all TV channels, it starts with either Gaga entering the building in the bedazzled outfit or Gaga singing in the car.

The editing in music video as at times very slow and as invisible as in film but in certain parts the editing becomes very fast to accentuate the video and song such as the part where Lady Gaga is making a mess in her apartment and then again at the end of the song in a climax of multiple scenes cut multiple times to all cumulate into a climax at the end. Most of the time the editing is cut in time with the music. Towards the end before the very fast cuts one can see the pace increase gradually until the climax. There are barely any effects used in the music video, there are almost no special transitions, all scenes are just cut together apart from when the dome transforms into the moon in the night sky before the music starts to play. The particular effect is seen when gaga is performing as the lone ballerina. There are little "fairies flying around her at parts" and in the very end scene it is tinted red with the flames added in with the creepy echoey music to create a creepy dark effect.

Synopsis and fashion credits

Before the release of the video, Gaga uploaded a clip that she titled "The Prelude Pathétique". During the clip, Gaga is lying on a gurney being wheeled through a hallway by two nurses wearing mint Parisian berets. Her voice-over narrates the following.

When I look back on my life, it’s not that I don’t want to see things exactly as they happened, it’s just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully, the lie of it all is much more honest, because I invented it. Clinical psychology tells us, arguably, that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. They can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality. For example, those nurses? They’re wearing next-season Calvin Klein, and so am I. And the shoes? Custom Giuseppe Zanotti. I tipped their gauze caps to the side like Parisian berets because I think it’s romantic, and I also believe that mint will be very big in fashion next spring. Check out this nurse on the right. She’s got a great ass. Bam!
The truth is, back at the clinic, they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair. And that girl on the left? She ordered gummy bears and a knife a couple hours ago. They only gave her the gummy bears. I’d wish they’d only given me the gummy bears.

Lady Gaga in Marry the Night music video

The Hospital

The nurses push her into a room and a nurse, the same one who delivered Gaga, awakens Gaga and checks her heart rate and blood pressure. A pale, bruised Gaga is in bed, still recovering from an unknown procedure (the only clue to what surgery Gaga may have gotten is when she's told "no intimacy for two weeks"). With tears streaming down her face, Gaga tells the nurse (who refers to her as "morphine princess"), "I'm gonna be a star. You know why? Because I have nothing left to lose." She asks the nurse to play music and the camera zooms out to show viewers several female patients in white lingerie being treated and wandering off. While zooming out, Lady Gaga closes her eyes, raises her hands up, imagining herself as a ballerina, and the first movement (approximately the first 2 minutes 30 seconds and last 10 seconds of this movement) of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (commonly known as Sonata Pathétique) called Grave (Slowly, with solemnity) – Allegro di molto e con brio (Very quickly, with vigour) starts to play[3]. It is not known for sure whether Lady Gaga herself played this sonata on the piano and it was recorded for this music video. However, the audio is pretty similar to the version of sonata that was played by Claudio Arrau León, Chilean pianist, and recorded 19th to 26th September of 1963.[4] A piano plays while a mysterious laugh acts as the soundtrack to the dramatic, poignant scene.

Lady Gaga wears a outfit by Calvin Klein, and custom heels by Giuseppe Zanotti.
Nurses wear outfits by Calvin Klein.
Patients wear a lingerie by Marlies Dekkers.

Ballet

The next scene shows Lady Gaga on the stage in an ballet outfit with custom ballet shoes. During this scene, Gaga and background dancers are seen standing on their toes, wearing unusual pointe shoes which were elongated by high platforms, and dancing to soft piano music.

Lady Gaga and dancers wear custom jackets and skirts by Atsuko Kudo, and custom shoes by Noritaka Tatehana.

Apartment in New York

Then, a brunette Gaga is taken back to her own New York apartment from the hospital clinic by her best friend, Bo. Gaga is then undressed from an outfit by Stéphane Rolland and put into bed, though is interrupted by a phone call. The call notifies Gaga of her being dropped from her record label and then she answers, "But, I'm an artist. What do you mean give up?". French subtitles are shown during this brief sequence. Frustrated, she starts to make a mess in her apartment and pours breakfast cereal on herself. In the music video the last intense 10 seconds of the first movement of Beethoven's piano sonata are played while fast changing frames of Lady Gaga in her NYC apartment and on stage with ballerinas are showed. The piano music ends and Gaga is seen bleaching her hair while bathing in a tub, singing the opening lines of "Marry the Night" acoustically.

Lady Gaga wears a jacket and a skirt by Stéphane Rolland.
Bo wears a jacket, a corset and a skirt by Ryan Jordan, heels by Alejandro Ingelmo, and a bag by Chanel.
Lady Gaga wears wedges by Giuseppe Zanotti.

Dancing rehearsal

After the sequence, Lady Gaga says in a voice-over, as she's seen decked out in a bedazzled denim outfit and heels, "You may say I lost everything," and jokes, "But I still had my BeDazzler and I had a lot of patches, shiny ones from M&J Trimming, so I wreaked havoc on some old denim. And I did what any girl would do — I did it all over again." As Gaga walks into the building in BeDazzled jean clothing with curled blonde hair and red lipstick, resembling pop artist Madonna in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, dancers look down on her from a mezzanine and the clock chimes.

Lady Gaga wears a custom vest, a bra top, jeans, sandals and a clutch with Swarovski crystals by Versace, an earring by The Dragon Lady, and sunglasses by Mercura NYC.

Next, Gaga takes off her earrings and next she and her dancers are seen practicing a dance routine in a studio, Gaga wearing a jean bra and ripped black tights. Doing her best "Fame" routine, Lady Gaga rolls around and stretches, clearly reinventing herself from the ballerina she once was to a pop backup dancer.

Lady Gaga wears a custom bra by Versace, underwear by Cosabella, tights by Levante, boots by Pleaser customized by Andre No. 1, gloves by Portolano, an earring by The Dragon Lady.

The Night

The video shifts to a night scene on a sunroof, where half of Gaga's body is inside a Trans-Am car, while her legs protrude from the window. She still has blonde hair at this point and wears a black silicone leather outfit. Gaga manages to get her full body into the car; she kisses and then inserts a "Marry the Night" 8-track tape into the audio player. The song begins playing as she lip syncs and smokes a cigarette on the driver's seat. As the chorus begins, cars in the background set ablaze and explode. She gets out of the Trans-Am and begins to dance. She walks away as the second verse begins.

In the 3rd part of an exclusive interview for VEVO News, Lady Gaga told a story of creation of this scene and revealed its fashion details.

The outfit on top of Trans-Am, on the rooftop, overlooking the city, that outfit was specifically designed to be a continuation of body modification, which is something that I've been exploring with "Born This Way". The idea of that: we're not born just in one moment when someone gives birth to us, but that we can be reborn over and over again through our life. So, the cast was actually made to my body, has this very beautiful indentation and sort of mirrors, the-- um, the face of Yüyi, the more [made for ?] "Yoü and I" video, but... sort of taking into a new, through the street high fashion place. And I thought a lot about, uh, Louboutin shoes, and how-- this sort of, this like, very iconic shoe, right? The red sole bottom... That had never felt that they really have been given, like, really epic fashion moment. So, I thought, what better way than to have [???] lights of Trans-Am [and echo / eco ???] red bottoms of the shoes. So, I think, it was so, quite photographically, like that... And it was really a great experience to [do ?] in the video, because, you know, it was... It rained, actually, on the set. And it's not-- that's not a fake rain. It rained for real that day. And we had planned to do all these explosions! And it's thundering and lightning. And everyone was coming to me and saying, "You know, Gaga, we might need to shut the set down." And I said... [pulls sunglasses down] "We got free rain... Roll the cameras! And turn the lights back on [pushes sunglasses up]. And if it breaks, I'll pay for it. [laughs softly] Shoot that shit! It's amazing!" And I remember when we really lit the cars on fire, we really exploded them. My dad and my mom were in a car somewhere and my mom was like crying and she is so upset because I didn't want to use a stunt double. I never use stunt doubles for anything. So, we filmed this shot of the explosion and I remember thinking back then if they told me I could stand 15 feet away from a car while it explodes in my music video, I wouldn't have flinched. So don't flinch now. I just stood there. 'Cause if you flinch after all that - it's like taking a sip of water when you're ten feet from the finish line of a marathon. What a jackass.

Lady Gaga on VEVO News

Lady Gaga wears a custom top, shorts and shades by Leeroy New x Kermit Tesoro x In-House Atelier, boots by Christian Louboutin, and earrings by Kenneth Jay Lane.

Restart

As she dances in the studio and on the street, the video also cuts to Gaga naked in a bathtub at her apartment. The video focuses the most on Gaga's dancing, with a majority of the actual music-video portion featuring several big dance numbers. As she dances on the street, the moments leading up to her breakdown are played out: She's fighting, she's setting cars on fire, she's naked, she's dancing.

Lady Gaga wears a custom jumpsuit by Asher Levine, pumps by Salvatore Ferragamo, and vintage sunglasses by Mademoiselle De.
Lady Gaga wears a top by Capezio, tights by Levante, boots by Pleaser customized by Andre No. 1, a hat by Zara Gorman, and sunglasses by Linda Farrow for Raf Simons.
Lady Gaga wears a jacket, earrings, a bracelet and a necklace styled as bracelet by Moschino, a bodysuit by La Perla, boots by Casadei, sunglasses by Selima Optique customized by Coco & Breezy, and gloves by Portolano.

As the video comes to a close, a message handwritten on Gaga's hand is revealed, reading, "Interscope Records; Hollywood, CA; 4 p.m."

Lady Gaga wears a jacket by Stéphane Rolland, a custom jumpsuit by Asher Levine, pumps by Salvatore Ferragamo, vintage sunglasses by Frame France for Paulette Guinet, and a custom hat by Void of Course.

Whatever Gaga did to reinvent herself seemed to work. She became a pop star. The final shot is Gaga, decked out on couture, surrounded by flames in a spacey outfit before it all goes black.

Lady Gaga wears a dress by Paco Rabanne, and a hat by Philip Treacy for Paco Rabanne.

Credits

Song

Personnel (Album Version)

  • Recording — Dave Russell on Studio Bus
    • Recording assistant — Eric Morris
  • Programming, keyboards — Fernando Garibay
  • Additional drum programming — DJ White Shadow
  • Background vocals — Lady Gaga
  • Additional Engineering — Bill Malina
  • Mixing — Tony Maserati at Two Chords Music, Inc. at RMC Studio, Los Angeles
    • Mixing assistant — Jonathan "Jon" Castelli, Justin Hergett
  • Mastering — Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, New York City

Publishing

  • Sony/ATV Songs LLC / House of Gaga Publishing LLC (BMI)
  • Sony/ATV Songs LLC / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./ Garibay Music Publishing (BMI)
    All rights on behalf of itself and Garibay Music Publishing administered by WB Music Corp.

The album's credits incorrectly added the following names and tasks:

Music video

References

Advertisement