Lady Gaga Dances With Fans at the ‘Harlequin’ Listening Party in London
Lady Gaga hosted an exclusive, intimate listening party for Harlequin in London after the UK premiere of Joker: Folie A Deux. This highly anticipated sequel to the 2019 film Joker is scheduled to hit cinemas on 4th October. The movie continues the story of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, also known as the Joker, as he resides in a mental health facility following the events of the first film, where he falls in love with Gaga’s character, Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn.
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On 25th September, the pop icon and Phoenix graced the red carpet together in London for the premiere. After the event, Gaga headed to the Nomad Hotel, where she hosted a secret listening session for Harlequin, the companion album set to be released today.
During the party, Gaga played the entire album while singing and dancing alongside a crowd of dedicated fans. Check out the footage from the event below.
The singer and actress also shared a preview of one of the album’s songs on Instagram last night, accompanied by a video filmed at the Louvre in Paris. Joker: Folie à Deux has been described as a jukebox musical, featuring covers of several jazz standards such as ‘Oh, When the Saints,’ ‘Get Happy’ and ‘That’s Life,’ along with a few original tracks that will be included on Harlequin.
This album will mark Gaga’s first release since 2021’s Love For Sale, a collaborative effort with the late Tony Bennett. Her last solo studio album was 2020’s Chromatica. She has previously announced plans to drop a new album of original material in 2025, which she refers to as LG7—her seventh album—while calling Harlequin LG6.5.
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In August, Gaga released the single ‘Die With A Smile,’ a duet with Bruno Mars; however, this track is expected to be standalone and will not be featured on any album.
In an interview with Vogue earlier this month, Gaga said that she drew on her own experiences when playing the character: “Harley Quinn is a character people know from the ether of pop culture. I had a different experience creating her, namely my experience with mania and chaos inside – for me, it creates a quietness. Sometimes women are labelled as these overly emotional creatures and when we are overwhelmed we are erratic or unhinged. But I wonder if when things become so broken from reality, when we get pushed too far in life, what if it makes you…quiet?”
She continued: “I would say that I worked from a sense-memory perspective: What does it feel like to walk through the world and be…braced, in an intense way. And what happens when you cover up all of the complexities beneath the surface?”
Last month, Joker director Todd Phillips suggested that Folie à Deux is likely to be the final film in the Joker franchise.
–Silviya.Y
