Famous in the fashion world for having dressed in a dress made from pieces of raw beef in 2010, the New York singer and pianist Lady Gaga also wears a harlequin costume for her musical creations, not seeming happy with her queen status. of acquired dance-pop. with the phenomenal success of two of his first albums, fame (2008) and Born this way (2011).
Thus, he very soon expressed his love for jazz standards, as a convincing partner of the singer Tony Bennett (1926-2023) on two albums (cheek to cheek in 2014, love for sale in 2021), before triumphing on screen alongside filmmaker and actor Bradley Cooper with the country-pop adaptation of a star is born, in 2018.
Consequently, the role of Harley Quinn, this music therapist disturbed to the point of going completely crazy for the Joker, could only fit her like a glove in her third appearance at the top of a movie poster. Lady Gaga enjoyed playing the female character so much that she appeared in the 90s in the DC Comics publishing house that inspired her album Harlequinpublished on Friday, September 27, before the theatrical release on Wednesday, October 2, of Joker: madness for two, of Todd Phillips.
Judy Garland’s repertoire
This project – joker face After poker face – is curious to say the least, since it does not constitute an original soundtrack, since it combines classics of American song with a score entrusted – as in the first part – to the Icelandic composer and cellist Hildur Gudnadottir. However, we find melodies present in the film, such as That’s entertainment (excerpt from Everyone on stage by Vincente Minnelli), the delicious close to youco-signed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and popularized by The Carpenters in 1970, or the smile by Charles Chaplin, performed here in a piano-bar version for an elegant restaurant.
By not being able to interrupt the recovery exercise, which is already saturating the pop market, Lady Gaga seems calmer – since Good day AND get happy – in the repertoire of Judy Garland and that of Zizi Jeanmaire, for whom he had sung my feather thing for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on July 26. In apparent continuity with the albums with Tony Bennett, Harlequin but it lacks a clear musical direction, hesitating between the expected big band, the fanfare of New Orleans and the fervor that escapes from a gospel temple with its Hammond organ. Few surprises, otherwise Oh when the saintsto the rhythm of rockabilly, or world on a string, title written for the opening of the Cotton Club and revisited as a 50s romance with a great guitar vibrato.
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