Key facts
- Released
- August 12, 2013 ( 2013-08-12 )
- Studio
- Record Plant (Hollywood) Platinum Sound (New York City)
- Genre
- Electropop dance-pop Eurodance
- Length
- 3 : 32
- Label
- Streamline Interscope
- Songwriters
- Lady Gaga Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair Dino Zisis Nick Monson Martin Bresso Nicolas Mercier Julien Arias William Grigahcine
- Producers
- Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair Lady Gaga
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Genre
- synth-pop
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Do What U Want
- Follows
- Marry the Night
- Composer
- DJ Snake
- Producer
- Lady Gaga
- Performer
- Lady Gaga
- Record label
- Interscope Records
- Tonality
- G minor
- Lyrics by
- Lady Gaga
- Distribution format
- compact disc
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- beats per minute
- 14
- publication date
- 2013-08-12
- language of work or name
- English language
- single taken from the album or EP
- Artpop
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Applause" on YouTube
"Applause" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third studio album, Artpop (2013). It was released as the album's lead single through Interscope Records on August 12, 2013. Written and produced by Gaga, DJ White Shadow, Dino Zisis, and Nick Monson, additional songwriters included Martin Bresso, Nicolas Mercier, Julien Arias and William Grigahcine. "Applause" was inspired by the cheering of her fans, which kept her motivated during the months she toured with the Born This Way Ball in pain, before cancelling it due to a hip injury, and pays respect to the art of performance. It is an electropop, dance-pop and Eurodance song built around synthesizers and hi-NRG beats, with lyrics addressing how Gaga is dependent upon her fans' adoration and how she lives to perform.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Applause” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.