Lady Gaga Is Making an Entire Album for Joker: Folie à Deux

Lady Gaga is releasing a full companion album for Joker: Folie à Deux, titled "Harlequin" and arriving later this week.

Sep 25, 2024 - 03:00

Lady Gaga Is Making an Entire Album for Joker: Folie à Deux

Harley Quinn is getting her own album, thanks to Lady Gaga.

The musician announced on Tuesday a Joker: Folie à Deux companion album titled "Harlequin," inspired by her role as Harleen "Lee" Quinzel/Harley Quinn in the forthcoming DC sequel. It'll consist of 13 songs and release on Friday, just a week before Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters.

Harlequin. September 27. A companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux. https://t.co/86Y4cI5jSl pic.twitter.com/t8ifrVtJLF— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) September 24, 2024

You can see the track list below:

1. Good Morning
2. Get Happy (2024)
3. Oh, When the Saints
4. World on a String
5. If My Friends Could See Me Now
6. That’s Entertainment
7. Smile
8. The Joker
9. Folie à Deux
10. Gonna Build a Mountain
11. Close to You
12. Happy Mistake
13. That’s Life

Gaga has been teasing the announcement over the past few days, publishing Instagram posts with quotes like "I'm ready for my interview," "Don't tell me what to wear," and "No ducktape, no mission." She posted one last hint, "Still not October," last night.

Gaga and the rest of the team has been has been teasing her portrayal of the DC character for the last few months, with director Todd Phillips telling Variety last month that this version of Harley will be a little more grounded than fans are used to.

“The high voice, that accent, the gum-chewing and all that sort of sassy stuff that’s in the comics, we stripped that away,” he said at the time. “We wanted her to fit into this world of Gotham that we created from the first movie.”

Gaga, meanwhile, recently released "Die With a Smile" with Bruno Mars — also slightly thematically appropriate for Joker: Folie à Deux — and is gearing up for her seventh official album, referred to as "LG7" for now.

IGN caught Joker: Folie à Deux out of the Venice International Film Festival earlier this month, where we gave it a 5/10. "Despite the best efforts of Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, and an opening hour set in Arkham Asylum, Joker: Folie à Deux wastes its potential as a movie musical, a courtroom drama, and a sequel that has anything meaningful to say about or add to the first Joker," Siddhant Adlakha wrote for IGN.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.