Pop star and actress Lady Gaga surprised her fans with an album announcement. “Harlequin” will be released on Friday, September 27, the 38-year-old announced on her social media. The musician describes it as a companion album to her film “Joker: Folie à Deux”. She posted the album cover, which shows the singer with wet hair, smeared make-up and a red life jacket in a Shower The album has thirteen songs, including “Good Morning”, “World on a String”, “That’s Entertainment”, “The Joker” and “Folie à Deux”.
In “Joker: Folie à Deux” Lady Gaga plays alongside Joaquin Phoenix
In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the sequel to the award-winning thriller “Joker” (2019), Lady Gaga stars alongside Joaquin Phoenix as the character Harley Quinn. Phoenix (49) returns in the role of the failed comedian Arthur Fleck, who lives on the fringes of society as Batman’s opponent in “Joker”. Now he is locked up in Arkham Asylum. The film by director Todd Phillips, which was shown at the Film Festival in Venice premiered and will be released in cinemas in early October.
Lady Gaga’s last album was released in 2020
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, released her sixth album, “Chromatica,” in May 2020. She recently told fashion magazine “Vogue” that she wanted to release her seventh studio album in February 2025. She announced the first single from this album for October, but did not give an exact date. “Harlequin” is therefore an additional work as a companion album to the film, wrote the US broadcaster CNN.
She received an Oscar for “A Star is Born”
In 2019, Lady Gaga caused a sensation with the film song “Shallow”. Her joint title song with actor Bradley Cooper from the romantic drama “A Star Is Born” earned the musician the Oscar for Best Song. In 2023, she was nominated for Best Original Song with “Hold My Hand” from the film “Top Gun: Maverick”, but came away empty-handed at the Oscars.
