When Girl Gaga proclaims that she has a brand new album on the way in which, it instantly sparks a guessing recreation amongst her fervent fan base — what taste of Gaga will we obtain this time? Imperial Pop Gaga? Rock Star Gaga? Lovable Artsy Weirdo Gaga?
So when Mom Monster introduced earlier this week that she could be dropping a shock album on Friday (Sept. 27) titled Harlequin, theories started flying across the fandom of what they may get to listen to. Some believed that the venture would act as a soundtrack to her upcoming movie Joker: Folie à Deux; some believed the LP would function a transitional venture akin to her Cheek to Cheek period; extra nonetheless thought “LG 6.5” may see Gaga return to the darkish pop glory of early tasks like The Fame Monster and Born This Method.
However now that Harlequin is right here (through Lil Monsters LLC & Interscope), we will confidently say that … properly, everybody was a little bit proper. The brand new Gaga album is equal components Joker companion piece and covers of traditional showtunes and pop requirements, with a pair of authentic songs Gaga wrote particularly for the album to spherical the entire thing out. Using her ever-impressive voice, Gaga manages to take every of those beloved songs and morph them into her personal imaginative and prescient for a Harley Quinn-inspired romp.
For these pondering that Harlequin will merely retread the heights of Gaga’s jazz duets with Tony Bennett, worry not; all through every of the album’s 13 tracks, the singer rigorously shapes every music to suit the chaotic musical world of Joker: Folie à Deux. Spanning genres and types, Gaga manages to show even a number of the most beloved pop classics in American tradition into contemporary reincarnations.
Whereas we proceed to revel within the anarchic delights of this album between albums, right here is Billboard‘s preliminary rating of all 13 songs on Girl Gaga’s Harlequin: