Lady Gaga: ARTPOP Release Date, Single, App Details Revealed

After abandoning her Twitter until further notice, Lady Gaga took to Facebook to announce the release date of her hotly anticipated album ARTPOP, the cooresponding app and the album's first single. ARTPOP will hit shelves on November 11, along with the app. The unnamed single will take the airwaves on August 19.

Here's the Facebook statement in full:

"Built by TechHAUS, the technological branch of Haus of Gaga, the app itself is a musical and visual engineering system that combines music, art, fashion and technology with a new interactive worldwide community - "the auras".  Altering the human experience with social media, we bring ARTculture into POP in a reverse Warholian expedition.

Exploring Gaga's existence as a cultural interface, the user will share in the "adrenaline of fame" as they build and share their own projects, chat with one another and watch in real-time on a virtual globe as ARTPOP explodes onto their physical and virtual universe at once on November 11, our "BIG BANG!" On this day HAUS OF GAGA venges with forte to bring the music industry into the new age: an age where art drives pop, and the artist is once again in control of the 'icon.'

In turn, the album ARTPOP musically mirrors Gaga's creative process as she passes through the mediums of each artist she collaborates with, scoring a blueprint of her journey. The result, a 'rage' of electronic passion and fury, defining each artistic process from beginning to end, ARTPOP could mean anything. But for her, this is a celebration of obsession. And on November 10, she will host an evening of artRave exhibiting Haus of Gaga's projects as well as collaborations with:

Inez & Vinoodh, Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovix, Jeff Koons."

The album and app will be available for pre-order September 1.