It was released as the album's fifth and final single by Interscope Records. Gaga wrote and produced the song with Rob Fusari. The song portrays Gaga's struggles in her quest for fame, as well as balancing success and love.
Musically, it is an uptempo techno-pop and dance-pop ballad whose lyrics describe a stalker following somebody to grab attention and fame. The music video was released on May 29, , and on July 6, "Paparazzi" was released digitally in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and physically in Australia on July It was also commercially successful, reaching top-ten positions in the music charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and topping the charts in the Czech Republic, Germany and Scotland.
It shows her survival, comeback, revenge on her boyfriend, and experiences on the way to fame. Additional live performances of the song took place during many of her concert tours and residency shows.
While working together, he compared some of her vocal harmonies to those of Freddie Mercury , lead singer of Queen. Although the musical relationship between Fusari and Gaga was unsuccessful at first, the pair soon started writing more songs for Gaga.
What am I really trying to say here? What will the act of me writing this song really do? Me making a conscious decision to write about the paparazzi — I thought about performance art and shock art and how Paris Hilton and her sister and Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie are shock artists in their own way. They're not necessarily doing fine arts — something they put in the museums — but it's an art form. That's what this song is trying to say. By , Gaga relocated to Los Angeles to work extensively with her record label to complete her debut album, The Fame , and set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga.
