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"Lady Gaga and Katy Perry will be seated next to each other at this weekend&amp;#039;s MTV Video Music Awards. The pop stars have been embroiled in a music rivalry relating to their respective new singles &amp;#039;Applause&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Roar&amp;#039;.  .@ladygaga and @katyperry with prime time front row seating at the #VMAs pic.twitter.com/3auEAXmgTI \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Barclays Center (@barclayscenter) August 22, 2013  Brooklyn&amp;#039;s Barclays Center, where this year&amp;#039;s Video Music Awards will be held, tweeted a picture today (August 22) revealing that the singers will be sitting together during the show, one row ahead of the band Fun.  Gaga is scheduled to open the annual awards show with her first live performance of &amp;#039;Applause&amp;#039;, which had its music video released last week.  Meanwhile, Perry will close the show with a new song from Prism at an as-yet-undisclosed location in Brooklyn.  The MTV Video Music Awards air Sunday, August 25 on MTV.  Watch the video for Gaga&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Applause&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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