Girl Gone Bad

The song Girl Gone Bad, with its duration of 4 minutes and 35 seconds, is one of the pieces that make up Van Halen's album 1984. This record, released on January 9, 1984, became a turning point for the band, being the last work with David Lee Roth as lead vocalist until A Different Kind of Truth in 2012, after his departure in 1985. The album, along with the band's self-titled debut, has sold over 10 million copies in the United States.

The recording of 1984 featured engineering by Ken Deane and Donn Landee, under the production of Ted Templeman. This album was well-received by music critics, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 81st on its list of the "100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s". It reached second place on the Billboard 200, remaining there for five weeks, a position only surpassed by Michael Jackson's Thriller, on which Eddie Van Halen had a participação. The music for Girl Gone Bad was composed by Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and Michael Anthony.