She's at it again! Lady Gaga strips down completely nude as she takes inspiration from Botticelli's Birth Of Venus for her new single's artwork
By REBECCA DAVISON and CHELSEA WHITE
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Is that all you have got?
She has always been a bit out of this world, but now Lady Gaga wants fans to come with her to Venus.
Gaga has posed naked for the album cover of her latest single, and while it would be controversial for most artists, for the envelope pushing singer it is almost tame.
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Who needs clothes? Lady Gaga released a first look at the cover art and two separate snippets of her new song Venus on Friday night and Saturday morning
The 27-year-old revealed a first look at the cover art and two separate snippets of her new song Venus.
The constantly changing artist gave fans a first listen to her new disco beat track late on Friday, before releasing a second section in the early hours of Saturday.
Explaining the first snippet, Gaga said on Twitter: 'I wrote 4 hooks in Venus. The snippet is of the first two before the true chorus. The rise before the orgasm.'
While Lady Gaga is hoping to space travel but from the safety of her bed with the line 'Let's blast off to our new dimension (in your bedroom)', her cover art plays homage to one of art's classic images.
Edgy: Shot by famed American photographer Steven Klein - who has previously worked with Madonna and collaborated with Gaga for Alejandro and Fame - one of the images shows a topless Gaga bleeding with a scorpion on her face
Shot by famed American photographer Steven Klein - who has previously worked with Madonna and collaborated with Gaga for Alejandro and Fame - the artwork features a series of images of a naked Lady Gaga.
How the images will be used when the single is released is not yet known, however there already seems to be a standout for the cover.
In one of the highly digitally altered shots, the Poker Face star is turned into a modern day Venus.
Which one will she choose? How the images will be used when the single is released is not yet known
Lift off: Lady Gaga sings about space travel and sexy times in the disco track
Taking inspiration from Botticelli's famous Birth Of Venus, a nude Gaga is superimposed in a bathroom with a seashell - which represented a woman's private parts in the great master's day - over her mouth.
Wearing a long blonde wig and almost completely colourless - except for her tattoos - the star looks like a statue.
In the other images, Gaga remains naked, slashed up and with a scorpion on face in one while another features a close up of the singer's chest with a bat pinned to it.
Homage to a classic: The Poker Face star takes inspiration from Botticelli's famous Birth Of Venus
The snippet release comes ahead of the November 11 unveiling of her full album ARTPOP.
The star is already on the promotional trail, first preforming at a album listening party in Berlin, Germany, before heading to England.
In London, as always, the singer turned heads as she arrived looking as though she was searching for her alien messiah from Venus.
The singer stepped out with her arms raised, wearing the same see-through creation from earlier and a possessed stare, she walked barefoot on the pavement.
Mad Messiah: Lady Gaga arrived at her London Hotel wearing a spooky see-through dress, white painted bare feet and creepy lenses
Her appearance was nothing short of terrifying as she approached fans, hands, feet and face painted white and creepy glass-eye lenses.
The eccentric star showed off all she's got, wearing a flesh-coloured thong and no bra, giving the crowds a glimpse of her nipples and bare bottom.
She also wore a crimped blonde wig and had dyed blonde eyebrows and white eyelashes, which left her with a shocked expression.
As Gaga left the hotel, she walked across the street with no shoes on, but luckily she had a team of minders around her to stop her stepping in anything she shouldn't.
Stage fright: Lady Gaga arrived in London ahead of her performance in X Factor on Sunday
Baring all: Gaga's dress became rather see-through underneath the flash of the cameras
She then climbed upon a wall with her arms outstretched as she apparently decided to salute a statue in front of her.
At one point, Gaga looked like she might topple over relied on her minders once again, to guide her down, flashing more flesh in the process.
On Thursday night, she exited her hotel wearing a Salavdor Dali inspired mustache and the same white eye make-up.
Don't fall: Gaga seems to be meditating as she stands on a wall with her arms outstretched
Still, Gaga was overdressed by her standards, and walked out wearing a full set of underwear with a black fur-lined cape draped over her shoulders.
The day before, Gaga wore yet another outrageous outfit, leaving her hotel for the world premiere of her new album.
She wore a giant triangular mask covered in fur, which featured a golden beak from Charlie Le Mindu Fall 2013 Haute Coiffure collection.
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