Lady Gaga Explains How Her ‘Joker’ Character Inspired the Music of ‘Harlequin’
With the thriller of “LG 6.5” formally solved, Lady Gaga is able to let fanatics in at the making of her latest magazine, Harlequin.
In a brandnew interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga defined that the speculation for her brandnew magazine of jazz and pop classics got here to her later she completed filming Joker: Folie à Deux. Nearest acting for as long as her persona Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (aka Harley Quinn), Gaga felt that she nonetheless had extra to mention. “I had such a deep relationship with Lee,” she stated. “And when I was done filming the movie, I wasn’t done with her.”
As for why she teased the magazine as “LG 6.5,” the singer defined that she didn’t need fanatics to peer this most effective as her upcoming magazine. “It is my record. It’s a Lady Gaga record, but it’s also inspired by my character and my vision of what a woman can be,” she stated. “It’s why the album does not adhere to one genre … it’s not my next studio album that’s a pop record, but it is somewhere in between, and it’s blurring the lines of pop music.”
The brandnew undertaking sees Gaga taking over a order of jazz requirements — akin to “Get Happy,” “World on a String” and “That’s Life” — similar to she did in her Tony Bennett duet albums Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale. Pace Gaga says she struggled with now not having her buddy and collaborator within the studio along with her following his death in 2023, she thinks he would have preferred Harlequin for its shapeshifting nature.
“If I had put rock n’ roll chords over production in a record that I did with Tony years ago, I don’t know how he would’ve felt about that. Tony didn’t love rock n’ roll, but he would’ve said, ‘Wow, that’s amazing,’” she defined. “He was somebody who loved how risk-taking and different I am, and I always thought that was so cool. He was 60 years older than me, and he would flinch less than young people that I would meet … He was just a really compassionate, inclusive person. So he was definitely with us [in the studio], but he was mostly inside of me.”
As for fanatics nonetheless keen to listen to what her long-awaited 7th studio magazine will pitch like, Gaga remained tight-lipped, however introduced a petite trace. “The pop album is nothing like Chromatica. It’s a completely different record,” she stated. “It’s meant to be ingested as a time in my life. And I’m also really excited about this idea that I don’t have to adhere to an era if I don’t want to. I can have a few going at once.”