Lady Gaga Unveils Companion Album ‘Harlequin’ For Joker
Lady Gaga has announced that she will be releasing a new album sooner than expected. The singer revealed a companion album for Joker: Folie à Deux titled Harlequin, set to drop on September 27, featuring 13 tracks.
Previously, Gaga had hinted at a surprise project she was working on in addition to her upcoming seventh studio album. Over the last few days, she teased the announcement with cryptic social media posts. The first read, “I’m ready for my interview,” followed by “Don’t tell me what to wear,” “No duct tape no mission,” “Moondust gets everywhere,” and, finally, “Still not October.”
The Harlequin track list preview shared the titles of all the songs, including “Good Morning,” “Get Happy (2024),” “Oh, When the Saints,” “World on a String,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Smile,” “The Joker,” and “Folie à Deux,” among others. In Todd Phillips’ upcoming sequel to Joker, Gaga plays Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker.
Earlier this month, she discussed with Vogue how her portrayal of Harley Quinn is personal to her, saying, “Harley Quinn is a character people know from the ether of pop culture. I had a different experience creating her, namely my experience with mania and chaos inside — for me, it creates a quietness. Sometimes women are labeled as these overly emotional creatures, and when we are overwhelmed, we are erratic or unhinged. But I wonder if when things become so broken from reality, when we get pushed too far in life, what if it makes you…quiet?”
Recently, Gaga released a single with Bruno Mars titled “Die With a Smile” and has announced that her upcoming album, currently referred to as “LG7,” will be released in full in February, with the first single from the album set to debut in October.
Recently, Lady Gaga reflected on her early career, acknowledging a now-deleted Facebook group created by her classmates at New York University called “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.” Screenshots of this group, which used Gaga’s birth name, have circulated among fans for years. Responding to the group in a TikTok, she stated, “Some people I went to college [with] made this way back when. This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down — gotta keep going.”
