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Lady Gaga to host ‘Artpop’ release at Berlin’s Berghain nightclub

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 25: Lady Gaga performs during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards pre-show at the Barclays Center on August 25, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for MTV) ** TCN OUT **

It’s no surprise that Lady Gaga would take a shine to Berlin’s storied Berghain nightclub. The place combines pretty much of all of her interests – dark dance music, public sexuality, elaborate fashion and a veneer of inscrutability. It’s widely regarded as the best electronic music club on the planet, full stop. 

Lady Gaga is has a reservation at Berlin’s Berghain nightclub, where she will host an “Artpop” release party. She is seen here in her appearance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. (Rick Diamond / Getty Images / August 25, 2013)

So in the same way that Jay-Z pals around with Marina Abramovic for art-world cred, Gaga will dip back into danceland when she hosts a release party for her forthcoming “Artpop” album there on Oct. 24, according to Spin.

In an event hosted by the German streaming service AMPYA, Gaga will take a few dozen hand-picked fans behind the velvet rope (or, rather, behind the imposing glare of Sven). To win entry, they’ll submit their most burning Gaga-centric questions in advance, and Gaga will take the ones that most entertain her.

It’s not her first time inside the club — German papers were thrilled in 2011 when, after a show of her “Monster’s Ball” tour, she reportedly writhed in the pitch-black rooms implicitly devoted to public sex.

Those rooms, alas, will be off-limits to this crowd — Gaga’s show will be held in an adjacent event space inside the Berghain complex, a former power plant. So if your really want to see Gaga truly wild out, you’ll have to stick to hervideos and VMA performances for now.

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