Girl Gaga is opening up in regards to the inspiration behind her Joker: Folie à Deux companion album titled Harlequin.
The actress-singer lately spoke to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about discovering a steadiness between herself and her character Lee, aka Harley Quinn, for the album, which will likely be launched Friday and embrace 13 tracks.
“I believe that for me, this concept of twin identities was all the time one thing that was part of my music-making,” Gaga defined. “I used to be all the time creating characters in my music, and once I made Lee for Joker, she simply actually had this profound impact on me. The movie had a lot music in it, a lot music that I really like, and I used to be capable of uncover the character via the story, via the music that we did reside each day in addition to dance and the costumes and the make-up. So I sort of had this deep expertise with the character and she or he simply didn’t actually depart me creatively, and I made a decision I needed to make a complete album impressed by her.”
The “Shallow” artist added that her Joker: Folie à Deux character is a “actually advanced lady and I believe, notably as a lady in music and a feminine producer, it was actually enjoyable to go, ‘This album will likely be and I will likely be what I would like, once I determine, every time I really feel prefer it. If I would like it to be blues, it’ll be blues. If I would like it to be funk, it’ll be funk. If I would like it to be soul, it’ll be soul.’”
Gaga introduced Harlequin earlier this week after teasing followers for weeks a couple of shock undertaking. In a tracklist preview, Spotify additionally shared the names of the album’s songs, together with “Good Morning,” “Get Completely satisfied (2024),” “Oh, When the Saints,” “World on a String,” “That’s Leisure,” “Smile,” “The Joker” and “Folie à Deux,” amongst others.
Lowe additionally famous that the album, which he described as LG 6.5, that means “half Gaga and half Lee,” not solely sounds “actually, actually enjoyable,” but in addition “actually free.”
“Yeah, it was actually enjoyable,” Gaga responded. “It was utterly releasing as a result of calling it LG 6.5, it’s sort of not beholden to pop music or popular culture in the identical method that a few of my different releases could be. And it sort of gave it a freedom in that method.”
Todd Phillips’ upcoming Joker musical sequel, which sees Gaga star reverse Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, opens in theaters on Oct. 4.
