Lady Gaga Announces ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Companion Album, ‘Harlequin’
Lady Gaga is taking Harley Quinn to the studio.
The Grammy and Oscar winner announced that she is releasing a “Joker: Folie à Deux” companion album inspired by her character and titled “Harlequin.” The album will be released on September 27 and features 13 songs.
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Gaga teased the album, which will precede her upcoming seventh studio album dubbed “LG7,” by putting up billboards with number “6.5.” The implication is that “Harlequin” is not considered a full Lady Gaga studio album, and is instead a “half” installment before her seventh.
The track list for “Harlequin” includes renditions of famous hits such as “Oh, When the Saints,” “World on a String,” and “Smile.”
The full list is below:
1. Good Morning
2. Get Happy (2024)
3. Oh, When the Saints
4. World on a String
5. If My Friends Could See Me Now
6. That’s Entertainment
7. Smile
8. The Joker
9. Folie à Deux
10. Gonna Build a Mountain
11. Close to You
12. Happy Mistake
13. That’s Life
Gaga will debut “XX October: LG7 first single” in October, as previously announced.
The singer/songwriter has fully crossed over into the film business. Gaga composed the scores for “Top Gun: Maverick” and “A Star Is Born,” for which she received an Oscar.
Gaga previously told Empire magazine that she had to shed her own stage presence to play Harley Quinn.
“People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me as that performer, but that is not what this movie is; I’m playing a character,” Gaga said. “So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee, and to not come from me as a performer.”
The “Joker” sequel is a musical — right up her alley — but that doesn’t mean it came completely naturally to Gaga.
“How do you take music and have it just be an extension of the dialogue, as opposed to breaking into song for no conceivable reason?” she posed. “It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before.”
Gaga and co-star Joaquin Phoenix sang live for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Gaga plays volunteer music therapist Harleen Quinzel who falls for Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck while he is detained in Arkham Asylum.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” premieres October 4 in theaters.
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