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"The Greatest Thing" is a song written in 2007, by Lady Gaga and RedOne. The song is registered as "Greatest" Lady Gaga's BMI. In 2011, The song was given to Cher for her upcoming twenty-sixth album and will be the first single.The song was written after the two wrote "Boys Boys Boys", and before their work in January of 2008. Interviewed by MTV about the song, Gaga replied: "I wrote that song a long time ago, and I've never put it on one of my own albums for, really, no particular reason. [...] I always write these concept records, and it just didn't fit in. But it's always been, like, this big, massive, beautiful hit record and everyone always says, 'Why don't you put that on your album?' And I said, 'I don't know, it just doesn't fit with everything else.' "
The song samples the classical piece, "Canon in D Major", by composer Johann Pachelbel. On July 14, 2011, Cher announced on her Twitter that Gaga and RedOne had given her a song and is set to be released on Cher's twenty second studio album under the title "The Greatest Thing". When fans asked if she was going to be dueting with Gaga, Cher replied she was not, but she would like to. Gaga later replied to Cher talking about the possibility of doing a duet in a remix of the song "for the gays". Cher later expressed her excitement for Gaga to put her vocals into her version of the song. "Cher heard the song and loved it and wanted to do it together. And I said, 'Fuck yeah, it's Cher!' " The line "Cuz when I'm with you I fall apart", mirrors that of "Dance in the Dark", "'Cause, when he's lookin', she falls apart"
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