With the thriller of “LG 6.5” formally solved, Girl Gaga is able to let followers in on the making of her latest album, Harlequin.
In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga defined that the thought for her new album of jazz and pop classics got here to her after she completed filming Joker: Folie à Deux. After performing for as long as her character Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (aka Harley Quinn), Gaga felt that she nonetheless had extra to say. “I had such a deep relationship with Lee,” she stated. “And once I was executed filming the film, I wasn’t executed together with her.”
As for why she teased the album as “LG 6.5,” the singer defined that she didn’t need followers to see this solely as her subsequent album. “It’s my document. It’s a Girl Gaga document, but it surely’s additionally impressed by my character and my imaginative and prescient of what a lady will be,” she stated. “It’s why the album doesn’t adhere to at least one style … it’s not my subsequent studio album that’s a pop document, however it’s someplace in between, and it’s blurring the strains of pop music.”
The brand new mission sees Gaga taking over a sequence of jazz requirements — similar to “Get Completely happy,” “World on a String” and “That’s Life” — very like she did in her Tony Bennett duet albums Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale. Whereas Gaga says she struggled with not having her good friend and collaborator within the studio together with her following his demise in 2023, she thinks he would have appreciated Harlequin for its shapeshifting nature.
“If I had put rock n’ roll chords over manufacturing in a document that I did with Tony years in the past, I don’t understand how he would’ve felt about that. Tony didn’t love rock n’ roll, however he would’ve stated, ‘Wow, that’s superb,’” she defined. “He was any individual who cherished how risk-taking and completely different I’m, and I all the time thought that was so cool. He was 60 years older than me, and he would flinch lower than younger those that I might meet … He was only a actually compassionate, inclusive individual. So he was undoubtedly with us [in the studio], however he was principally inside me.”
As for followers nonetheless keen to listen to what her long-awaited seventh studio album will sound like, Gaga remained tight-lipped, however supplied a small trace. “The pop album is nothing like Chromatica. It’s a very completely different document,” she stated. “It’s meant to be ingested as a time in my life. And I’m additionally actually enthusiastic about this concept that I don’t have to stick to an period if I don’t wish to. I can have a number of going directly.”
