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Lady Gaga Gives Away 'Born This Way' Outtake

Pop star releases track as Christmas gift to fans

December 27, 2011 10:05 AM ET
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Lady Gaga performs at KIIS FM's Jingle Ball in Los Angeles.
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Lady Gaga treated her legion of fans to a brand new song on Christmas day. The track, titled "Stuck On Fuckin' You," is an outtake from the pop star's blockbuster album Born This Way, recorded live to tape with producer Fernando Garibay on guitar and Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair on drum machines. "I wrote it in Minnesota after the Monster Ball on the tour bus," Gaga wrote of the largely improvised tune. "I wrote, sang it, and freestyled the last minute and a half of the song."

The singer initially released the tune as a stream on YouTube, but has since put the song out on SoundCloud with a free download link. Fans of Gaga in rock mode should be pleased: not only is she belting out the lyrics like a hair-metal goddess, but the track has a loose swagger that often comes out in her live gigs but mostly gets lost in the slick professionalism of her studio recordings.

You can stream "Stuck On Fuckin' You" below. As you can probably tell from the title, the lyrics get a bit raunchy, so be warned.

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