Lady Gaga has released the album cover for ARTPOP after teasing her fans on Twitter Monday morning. She revealed she would be unveiling the album art through a live stream on her website.
She teased this morning:
I can't believe it's almost time for you to see the ARTPOP album cover. Go to http://t.co/3ZlDtU2EFN to see a stream of it's unveiling!
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) October 7, 2013
She also shared how nervous she was to show the cover, which seemed to hold a lot of significance for her. “I'm nervous&excited to share something that's such a piece of my heart. Something I cherish deeply. A real depiction of my mind through his,” she said of the artist, Jeff Koons.
Gaga then revealed the cover around 1pm on Monday after the 30-minute live unveiling:
FULL ARTPOP ALBUM COVER.'One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me!' #ApplauseJeffKoons pic.twitter.com/NdAOJ8XKSw
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) October 7, 2013
The cover shows that Koons took a sculpture of the singer and used it for the album art. Behind the statue are pieces of a painting she references a lot, Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth Of Venus,” Idolator reports.
ARTPOP comes out Nov. 11, with the lead single being “Applause,” which came out Aug. 19.
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