Lady Gaga : Marry The Night

As we enter the home stretch of the pre-release buzz for Lady GaGa’s ‘Born This Way’, another cut from the set has surfaced. Enter ‘Marry The Night’.

Deemed one of the singer’s favourite tracks from the record, ‘Night’ was initially slated to serve as the project’s lead single.

With its pulsating baseline, club-destined production, and typically ‘out-there’ lyrics, ‘Night’ sits comfortably beside much of what we’ve heard from ‘Born’ thus far (and may very well be the best yet from the project).

Yet, in as much as this serves as a strength, it also functions against the track. For, with its undeniable 90’s Pop/Rock coating, one has to wonder where this leaves the Urban audience GaGa managed to engage with ‘The Fame’ and ‘Fame Monster’ LP’s.

Lady Gaga Streams "Born This Way" album 5 days early!!

Lady Gaga will stream her new album ‘Born This Way’ online from tomorrow morning (May 18). The record will finally be released next Monday (May 23), but fans in the UK will be able to hear it in full at Metro.co.uk from 7 am GMT.

The album has been trailed with an elaborate release plan. As well as the two singles ‘Born This Way’ and ‘Judas’ Gaga has been putting tracks out through an iTunes countdown. Last week she released new track ‘The Edge Of Glory’, while last night saw the emergence of ‘Hair’. Fans who have bought the tracks in the lead-up will be offered a ‘complete my album’ package from next week, at a discounted rate.

Lady Gaga : Judas

When you're Lady Gaga, scheduled premiere dates mean absolutely nothing. Her next single, "Judas" was originally slated to drop April 19, but Capital FM in London played the song days earlier, during the radio station's "Home Run" program on Friday afternoon (April 15).

The RedOne-produced track finds Gaga in familiar territory, singing about a lover she knows might not be right for her, but whom she just can't resist. "Ohhh, I'm in love with Judas," she opens on the track, accompanied by building synths. Soon a thumping electronic beat kicks in as Gaga sings, "Judahhh/ Juda-a-ah/ Gaga." The battle cry is reminiscent of the one in "Bad Romance."

Gaga's vocals are partially spoken, and at times she seems to have a Caribbean accent. She laments, "When he comes to me I am ready/ I'll wash his feet with my hair if he needs/ Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain/ Even after three times, he betrays me/ I'll bring him down, I came with no crown."

The tone lightens up a bit more on the song's chorus, which throws back to '80s pop in melody, as the beat picks up a bit and Gaga sings, "I'm just a holy fool/ Oh, baby, he's so cruel/ But I'm still in love with Judas, baby."

After the second verse and chorus, the song breaks down into a churning house song as Gaga chants in much the same way she does in the middle of "Born This Way." Then she sings, "I wanna love you/ But something's pulling me away from you/ Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to, I cling to."

A day before she decided to release the track early, Gaga tweeted this message for her fans: "#PawsUpForJudas! I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body."

The song is Born This Way's second single, following the phenomenal success of "Born This Way." The album hits stores on May 23, and the video for "Judas," directed by Gaga and her creative director Laurieann Gibson, is expected to premiere in the coming weeks.

"Let the cultural baptism begin," Gaga said of the track in a Gagavision video earlier this month. "If they were not who you were taught they would be, would you still believe?"

Lady Gaga : The Edge Of Glory

Lady Gaga's "The Edge Of Glory" is a pure pop track about the glory of love, but it seems that those warm, fuzzy feelings come from a very sad place for the pop star. Co-producer DJ White Shadow — who worked on the track with Gaga and Fernando Garibay — shared with MTV News the personal tragedy that sparked the Born This Way song.

"We had just all got back to Europe, after Lady Gaga had taken a break to spend time with her grandfather who was in the hospital, before he passed away. She explained to us that she had written a song about it," he said in an email. "As she often would, she came in with the melody and lyrics. She told us about what an impact the event had on her."

The song not only was poignant for the star, but also White Shadow, who felt really moved by Gaga's track. "We worked on it backstage, changing little things with the melody and lyrics; I don't remember what city to be honest. But I remember crying when I heard her sing it the first time," he recalled. "I also remember them throwing us out of the venue because we were there so late listening to it."

"Edge" is sonically different from "The Edge Of Glory" and the album's title track but White Shadow said emotionally, the songs are all very similar. "I think you will see a couple really emotional and complex songs on the album. I am so proud of her. She really put a lot of herself into the record; it genuinely hurts me when people take digs at her," he said. "You all know her as this monster, this invincible creature, but she is like my little sister.

"As a person, I know how hard she worked. I watched her put these songs together," he continued. "I know how much work and love she put into this album. I also know how much of it she had to do (to succeed by today's standard) versus what she did do (to succeed by her standard). At any rate, she gets a lot of mud slung at her, and there are a lot of real a--holes out there, trying to shit on her and fuck her over to make themselves look good. I just hope, when this record comes out, everyone will see, like I do, her genuine talent, vision, and love for life and her fans."

Lady Gaga : Hair single

In one week, Lady Gaga will officially drop her Born This Way album. Until May 23, she's teasing fans with another track off the highly anticipated release. This time, Gaga is declaring who she is on Hair.

The RedOne-produced song hit iTunes on Monday afternoon (May 16). Much like "Born This Way," "Hair" is an empowering track about embracing who you are. Unlike "Judas," which had a dark, industrial vibe, "Hair" is a fist-pumping, defiant disco track all about having a good time — a good time that's enhanced by getting "The Edge of Glory" sax player Clarence Clemons to blow on this song too.

"Whenever I dress cool, my parents put up a fight/ And if I'm a hot shot, Mom will cut my hair at night/ And in the morning I'm short of my identity/ I scream, 'Mom and Dad, why can't I be who I want to be?'/ I've had enough, this is my prayer/ That I'll die living just as free as my hair," she sings as the music grows louder. Lady Gaga then goes retro on the breakdown, singing about different hairstyles she's had.

Leading up to the release, Gaga took to Twitter to tease fans with lyrics and show off the single's artwork, a black-and-white photo that features Gaga lying down on the ground, wearing a black leather dress and knee-high black boots. Her hair and the word "hair" are colored pink.

" 'I'll dye living just as free as my Hair!' Actually the lyric is 'I'll die.' I think these bleach fumes are making me laugh at my own jokes," Gaga tweeted less than an hour before the release. Earlier, she wrote more about her hair and "Hair": " I just want to be free, I just want to be me, and I want lots of friends that invite me to their parties. #Hair. ... I don't wanna change, and I don't wanna be ashamed. I'm the spirit of my Hair, it's all the glory that I bare. I am my #Hair. ... How ironic, head full of bleach + two black Cruella stripes. Scalp burning, Mole drawing, eyeliner dripping. Waiting for #Hair. I could Dye."