Lady Gaga in “Joker: Folie à Deux” in 2024. Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros
Lady Gaga had not been fairly prepared to allow her Joker: Folie à Deux personality go, so she developed a going along with 13-track cd labelled Harlequin.
Joker: Folie à Deux complies with Phoenix’s return as Arthur Fleck, a.k.a the Joker, that is currently restricted inArkham Asylum There, he fulfills Gaga’s Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, and they create a strongly disorderly bond with the objective of creating chaos throughoutGotham City Unlike the initial Joker movie, the follow up consists of a collection of music numbers, which is where followers see Gaga in her aspect.
“This idea of dual identities was always something that was a part of my music making,” Gaga cooperated a brand-new meeting with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the motivation behindHarlequin “I was always creating characters in my music and when I made Lee for Joker, she just really had this profound effect on me. The film had so much music in it, so much music that I love, and I was able to discover the character through the story, through the music that we did live every day as well as dance and the costumes and the makeup. So I kind of had this deep experience with the character and she just didn’t really leave me creatively and I decided I wanted to make a whole album inspired by her.”
She proceeded, “She’s a really complex woman and I think, particularly as a woman in music and a female producer, it was really fun to go, ‘This album will be and I will be what I want, when I decide, whenever I feel like it. If I want it to be blues, it’ll be blues. If I want it to be funk, it’ll be funk. If I want it to be soul, it’ll be soul.’”
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The job includes covers of old standards– consisting of reimagined showtunes like “Good Morning” (Singing in the Rain) and “If My Friends Could See Me Now” (Sweet Charity)– and “celebrates a figure who thrives on danger, who lives for the undefinable, and who embraces the beautiful chaos of her own dreams,” per a news release. Harlequin likewise includes 2 initial tunes, the significant waltz “Folie à Deux” and the acoustic ballad “Happy Mistake.”
“BloodPop and I had written this together and then I kind of took it to the next place,” she stated of “Happy Mistake,” prior to including, “It was all in the image of the character, but also kind of at the very core of her soul, which is really just me. Every character I play, it just has me as the gravity. I am wrestling, on that record, with a lot of feelings about so much that I’ve been through as an artist, everything I went through growing up in the public eye, and the industry since I was a teenager.”
Ultimately, Gaga states shooting the Joker movie with Phoenix was a “really soulful experience” for her. “It’s like these two people find love in this really dark place and it brings them all the light,” she described.
Watch Zane Lowe’s complete meeting with Lady Gaga listed below. Joker: Folie à Deux strikes movie theaters onOct 4.
