Harlequin (Lady Gaga album)

2024 soundtrack album by Lady Gaga

Harlequin

Standard cover

Soundtrack album by

Lady Gaga

Released| September 27, 2024
Length| 41:33
Label|

* Interscope
* Lil Monsters

Lady Gaga chronology
| Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)  | Harlequin
(2024)  | Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)

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Harlequin is a soundtrack album by singer-songwriter Lady Gaga, released on September 27, 2024, through Interscope Records. It serves as a "companion album" to the 2024 American musical thriller film Joker: Folie à Deux,[a] in which she portrays Harleen "Lee" Quinzel / Harley Quinn. The album is made up of songs featured on the film's soundtrack, as well two original pieces composed for the project.[citation needed]

## Development

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Following the completion of The Chromatica Ball (2022), Gaga took a step back from social media and promotional activities while she focused on preparing her role as Harleen "Lee" Quinzel / Harley Quinn in the American musical thriller film Joker: Folie à Deux (2024).[3] In a lengthy Instagram post made on June 16, 2023, Gaga shared that she had been spending alone time "healing" while editing her concert film Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024), filming Joker: Folie à Deux, and creating music for a "special project".[4] Throughout the rest of the year and into 2024, she occasionally teased upcoming music via social media, sharing photos from within the studios where she was working and offering insights into the process.[5]

At the film's red carpet premiere in London, England, on September 25, 2024, Gaga discussed the inspiration for the album, stated, "When we were done with the movie, I wasn't done with her. Because I'm not done with her, I made Harlequin." She also described it as an "indicative of a complex woman that wants to be whoever she wants to be at any given moment."[6]

## Release and promotion

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Gaga posted an image on September 20, 2024, containing a "grainy" red background with a white text displaying, "I'm ready for my interview".[7] She later uploaded four more "cryptic" images with three containing sound through Instagram, with many fans believing to be her seventh studio album or related to Joker: Folie à Deux.[8] Afterwards, various billboards started to appear throughout multiple cities in the United States with the message "LG6.5" which teases a bridge between Gaga's previous album Chromatica (2020) and her upcoming seventh studio album.[9]

The artist revealed the album to be titled Harlequin and shared the cover artwork via Instagram, on September 24, 2024. In the same post, she referred to the project as a "companion album" to Joker: Folie à Deux and linked to pre-order the album's CD, vinyl, and digital formats on her web store.[10] The following day, Gaga utilized Instagram once again to announce a collaboration with the Louvre Museum in promotion for the album. The post featured an 80-second preview of "The Joker" set to an accompanying visual that shows Gaga exploring the museum at night. Towards the end of the clip, she uses red lipstick to draw a Joker-inspired grin on the Mona Lisa. The clip also promotes the upcoming "Figures Du Fou" exhibition that will open at the Louvre on October 16, 2024.[11]

After the film's premiere in London, Gaga hosted a "secret" intimate listening party where her fans gotten a chance to listen the soundtrack album.[12]

## Cover artworks

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The album's standard cover features Gaga standing in a shower sporting orange hair while wearing a white clothed-dress with a flotation device around her neck.[13] An alternate cover used for an exclusive vinyl sold only on Gaga's web store shows her in a messy bedroom lying on the bed facing the ceiling. She sports orange hair once again while items present in the shot reference previous moments in her career, including her collaborations with American singer Tony Bennett and her two-year long concert tour, the Joanne World Tour (2017–2018).[14] The back cover of the album features a photograph of a messy bedroom with the 1862 painting Stańczyk by the Polish painter Jan Matejko hanging on the wall.[15][16]

## Track listing

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Harlequin standard edition track listingNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Good Morning"|

* Arthur Freed
* Lady Gaga
* Michael Polansky
* Nacio Brown

| 2:47
2.| "Get Happy (2024)"|

* Harold Arlen
* Lady Gaga
* Michael Polansky
* Ted Koehler

| 3:12
3.| "Oh, When the Saints"| Traditional| 3:43
4.| "World on a String"|

* Harold Arlen
* Ted Koehler

| 2:37
5.| "If My Friends Could See Me Now"|

* Cy Coleman
* Dorothy Fields
* Lady Gaga
* Michael Polansky

| 2:44
6.| "That's Entertainment"|

* Arthur Schwartz
* Howard Dietz

| 4:10
7.| "Smile"|

* Charlie Chaplin
* John Turner
* Geoffrey Parsons

| 3:42
8.| "The Joker"| Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley| 2:52
9.| "Folie à Deux"| Lady Gaga| 3:00
10.| "Gonna Build a Mountain"|

* Leslie Bricusse
* Anthony Newley

| 2:52
11.| "Close to You"|

* Burt Bacharach
* Hal David

| 2:44
12.| "Happy Mistake"|

* Michael Tucker
* Lady Gaga

| 4:06
13.| "That's Life"|

* Dean Kay
* Kelly Gordon

| 3:04
Total length:| 41:33

## Release history

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Release dates and formats for Harlequin Region  | Date  | Format(s)  | Label  | Ref.

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Various  | September 27, 2024  |

* CD
* digital download
* streaming
* vinyl

| Interscope | [17]

## See also

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* Joker: Folie à Deux (soundtrack)
* Joker: Folie à Deux (score)

## Footnotes

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1. ^ Folie à deux (US: /foʊˌliː ə ˈdʌ/ foh-LEE ə DUH[1]) is a French-derived term meaning "madness for two."[2]

## References

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1. ^ Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, p. 665, ISBN 9781405881180
2. ^ Chapman, Wilson (August 5, 2022). "Everything we know about Joker 2 so far". Variety. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved February 15, 2023.
3. ^ Sharf, Zack (October 7, 2022). "Margot Robbie gives Lady Gaga Her blessing for Harley Quinn role in Joker 2: 'She'll do something incredible with it'". Variety. Archived from the original on October 25, 2022. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
4. ^ Mier, Tomás (June 16, 2023). "Lady Gaga confirms Chromatica Ball film, says alone time has been 'healing'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
5. ^ Aniftos, Rania (March 21, 2024). "Lady Gaga is teasing that she's working on new music". Billboard. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
6. ^ Tabberer, Jamie (September 25, 2024). "Gaga talks Joker companion LP Harlequin: 'The record has so many different genres on it'". Attitude. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
7. ^ Dailey, Hannah (September 20, 2024). "Lady Gaga shares cryptic teaser ahead of new album: 'I'm ready for my interview'". Billboard. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
8. ^ Bonner, Mehera (September 23, 2024). "What we know about Lady Gaga's cryptic Instagram posts and "secret project"". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
9. ^ Phillips, Demi (September 24, 2024). "What is Lady Gaga's LG6.5 secret project and what happened to her seventh album?". We Got This Covered. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
10. ^ Strauss, Matthew (September 24, 2024). "Lady Gaga releasing new album Harlequin on Friday". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
11. ^ {{cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |title=Lady Gaga gives the Mona Lisa a sinister smile in preview of rocking new Harlequin song "The Joker" |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lady-gaga-preview-harlequin-song-the-joker-louvre-mona-lisa-1235783645/ |date=September 25, 2024 |access-date=September 25, 2024 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard] ]}}
12. ^ Duran, Anagricel (September 26, 2024). "Watch Lady Gaga dance with fans at Harlequin listening party in London". New Musical Express ]. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
13. ^ Edwards, Molly (September 24, 2024). "Joker: Folie à Deux marketing goes to the next level: A Harley Quinn concept album from Lady Gaga". GamesRadar+. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
14. ^ Calfee, Joel (September 24, 2024). "Everything you need to know about Lady Gaga's upcoming concept album, Harlequin". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
15. ^ Rybak, Adrian (September 25, 2024). "Polski obraz na okładce nowej płyty Lady Gagi! Artystka użyła dzieło Jana Matejki" [Polish painting on the cover of Lady Gaga's new album! The artist used the work of Jan Matejko] (in Polish). Radio Eska. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
16. ^ Webber, Alex (September 26, 2024). "Iconic Polish painting thrust back into the spotlight thanks to Lady Gaga". TVP World. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
17. ^ Harlequin release formats:
* "Harlequin Standard CD". Lady Gaga Official Shop. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
* "Harlequin Standard Digital Album". Lady Gaga Official Shop. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
* "Harlequin Standard Vinyl". Lady Gaga Official Shop. Retrieved September 24, 2024.

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