Marry The Night

On her Facebook page, Lady Gaga posted: "I wrote 'Marry the Night' about having a good time in NY with my friends, and how I would never be a Hollywood girl."

Gaga gave more detail on her 2011 Thanksgiving special, when she told Katie Couric that it was her favorite song on the album, adding, "It's about committing yourself wholeheartedly to the thing you're most passionate about. For me, it was always music. It's about that moment when I decided I was going to tear it up, that I was going to get married to my work, and that my work would be my husband forever. There was no fire and no rain that could get in the way."

The opening track of Lady Gaga's second full-length album, Born This Way was written and produced by the New York songstress with Mexican music producer, DJ and songwriter Fernando Garibay. She told Billboard magazine that this song set the record's sound: "When Fernando and I did it, it was actually after I had written 'Born This Way,' but hadn't yet produced it. It was like this sonic light bulb went off and we were like, 'That's the sound! That's the future.'"

Gaga explained to UK music magazine the NME that this declaration of her love for the Big Apple's night life, "is about me going back to New York. I wrote this about the courage it took for me to say, 'I hate Hollywood, I just wanna live in Brooklyn and make music.'"