"Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" is a song performed by American recording artist Lady Gaga from her debut studio album, The Fame. It was released as a promotional single from the album on September 16, 2008.It is an uptempo dance-pop song that makes heavy use of synthesizers, and is lyrically about Gaga's experiences as a struggling artist in the Lower East Side. She wrote the song while she was, as she says, "doing a lot of drugs" and "trying to figure things out."