 On November 20 , Gaga went on Alan Carr : Chatty Man and explained the meaning behind the " Marry the Night " music video . " I know how rejection feels in the business . I got signed , I got dropped , I got signed again . That 's actually what the ' Marry the Night ' video is about . It 's about one of the most horrible days of my life when I got dropped from my first record label and it 's the story of what happened that day . " A second preview of the music video , shot in a dance studio , premiered on November 25 , 2011 . Gaga told Vanity Fair magazine that the video is " autobiographical " and illustrates " the worst day of my life . " The entire video premiered on December 1 , 2011 on E ! Online at 8 @.@ 00 pm EST . However , the video appeared online several hours before its official release . Gaga took her Twitter to express dissatisfaction with the leak of the video , saying that it was " like an old tampon . " The video for the song is 13 minutes long . 
