Lady Gaga Unveils "G.U.Y." Single Cover

Gaga's handwriting

After the World premiere of the "G.U.Y." music video, which also features other songs from her latest album "ARTPOP" (Purchase the ARTPOP vinyl here), Lady Gaga took to Twitter and LittleMonsters.com to unveil the single cover. It features a still from the opening section of the music video: a winged, naked Lady Gaga. In the short film, you can see that the singer has been attacked by numerous businessmen who use her, squeeze all the money they can out of her and then abandon her.

But this is Lady Gaga we're talking about, and unsurprisingly, she gets up, makes her way to a liberating place where friendly, artistic minds take care of her until she's ready to take over the World again.

The video has received almost ten million views in 24 hours, and the song is starting to slowly climb up the iTunes charts worldwide. Will this be Lady Gaga's return to form after her latest album failed to sell as much as her previous records? People have been quick to dismiss the project as a "flop", a word that so many music fans seem to love and use even when it's completely unnecessary.

The album has simply underperformed, which shouldn't come as a surprise considering the long break the singer took after she had to cancel her North American dates of the "Born This Way Ball" tour due to a hip injury that left her on a wheelchair for months.

"artRave: The ARTPOP Ball" and future singles and personal appearances should help the album stay in the charts. In the meantime, buy "ARTPOP" and "G.U.Y." here:

US residents

Artpop   G.U.Y. [Explicit] 

UK residents

ARTPOP [Explicit]   G.U.Y. [Explicit]

Lady Gaga Premieres New Video: G.U.Y.

A scene from the G.U.Y. music video

Lady Gaga premiered the video for her new single G.U.Y. tonight, with an exclusive two minute preview on NBC's Dateline, followed by the premiere of the full, seven minute short film on her VEVO channel.

The build up to the premiere took the Internet by storm, as Gaga was trending for hours on various media outlets and social networks such as Twitter, Google and CNN. Her legions of Little Monsters were clearly desperate for something new, especially because her last video was released in August, 2013. For someone who brought the music video back to total relevance, that's a long time ago.

She teased for days with stills from the video, and thirty minutes before the premiere, she tweeted this .gif image:

Minutes before the premiere, fan sites and music forums stopped working. One of Lady Gaga's biggest fan sites, GagaDaily, crashed under the weight of more than 2,200 over-excited fans who were waiting for the video together.

ARTPOP, Lady Gaga's latest album

Watch the music video here:

Buy ARTPOP and G.U.Y. here:

  Artpop [Explicit] [+digital booklet] G.U.Y. [Explicit]