Depart it to Woman Gaga to offer one of the crucial well-known faces on this planet a maniacal makeover. On Wednesday morning (Sept. 25), the singer launched a tantalizing 80-second preview of one of many songs from her shock Joker: Folie à Deux companion album, Harlequin. “The Joker,” a rock-edged observe that appears to be co-star Joaquin Phoenix’s theme track is accompanied by a video wherein Gaga’s Harley Quinn takes a midnight stroll via Paris’ Louvre Museum for a bout of midnight mischief.
“There’s all the time a joker within the pack/ There’s all the time a lonely clown,” Gaga sings over the sound of refined guitar as she meanders by the signature IM Pei-designed glass pyramid and dances down the steps with the Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture within the background. Sporting a modest prairie gown, low-top Chuck Taylor fitness center footwear and polka dot tights, her hair coloured crimson, Gaga (as Quinn), sings, “The poor laughing idiot falls on his again/And everybody loves when he’s down/There’s all the time a humorous man within the sport/ However he’s solely humorous by mistake,” a succinct abstract of tragic anti-hero Jack Oswald White’s killer clown persona.
With the entire place to herself at evening, Gaga/Quinn takes intention along with her finger weapons and blasts away at priceless artworks because the track’s tempo and depth rise to match her character’s sinister plans. “And everybody laughs at him, simply the identical/ They don’t see his lonely coronary heart break,” she sings as her voice reaches a crescendo and Quinn ekes out a crooked smile and wave whereas taking within the Mona Lisa.
With the electrical guitars cranking up and drums kicking in, Gaga wails, “They don’t care so long as there’s a jester/ Only a idiot, as silly as he might be/ There’s all the time a joker/ That’s the rule, however destiny is the hand that I see/ The Joker is meeeee!!” as Harley pulls out a tube of lipstick and offers probably the most iconic portray of a smiling girl a brand new, Joker-worthy blood crimson Chelsea grin.
Happy along with her work, Gaga walks away, her eye make-up beginning to soften throughout her face because the guitars get louder and she or he repeats “the Joker is me,” whereas strutting via the darkened Louvre galleries. “There’s all the time a joker,” Gaga captioned the video preview, together with hashtags for the museum, the film and the upcoming “Figures du Fou” exhibit on the Louvre. Not for nothing, the august establishment is clearly all-in on the film promo, because it modified the official picture on its X account to the Joker-ized Mona Lisa lipstick smile.
The Figures Du Fou exhibition (which interprets to Figures of the Idiot), opens on Oct. 16 and is described as inspecting, “the omnipresence of fools in Western artwork and tradition on the finish of the Center Ages, and makes an attempt to parse the that means of those figures, who would appear to play a key position within the introduction of modernity. The idiot might make us giggle, together with his abundance of frivolous antics, however he additionally harbours a wealth of hidden aspects of an erotic, scatological, tragic or violent nature. Able to the very best and of the worst, the idiot entertains, warns or denounces; he turns societal values on their head and should even overthrow the established order.”
In different phrases, the Joker.
On Tuesday, Gaga stunned Little Monsters when she introduced that the Harlequin album will drop on Friday (Sept. 27). On the LP’s cowl, Gaga is depicted standing in a bathe totally clothed, with the water inflicting her clown make-up to drip down her face because it does as the top of “The Joker” video.
On the again of a milk carton Gaga appeared to preview the 13-song album’s observe record, which options some recognizable requirements, together with “Get Completely happy,” “That’s Leisure,” “Oh When the Saints” and “World on a String.”
Gaga lately revealed that her upcoming, untitled seventh studio album is due out in February, with a lead single slated to drop subsequent month. Joker: Folie à Deux is due in theaters on Oct. 4.
Watch “The Joker” preview under.
