Lady Gaga dropping ‘Joker’ companion album this week

It’s nary joke, a caller Lady Gaga medium is dropping this week, arsenic a companion to the upcoming “Joker” sequel.

On Tuesday, the 38-year-old Grammy and Oscar victor announced connected Instagram that “Harlequin” volition driblet Friday. The rubric of the 13-track medium is simply a motion to her relation successful “Joker: Folie à Deux,” retired Oct. 4. She plays Lee, a caller rotation connected Joker emotion involvement Harley Quinn.

The announcement featured a changeable of the New York native, existent sanction Stefani Germanotta, lasting successful the ablution and sporting a beingness vest, bedewed hair, and constitution moving down the close broadside of her face. The “Shallow” crooner besides included a changeable that looks to beryllium from the film, showing a crushed beverage carton and a information of a clown mask.

The caller medium volition not see Gaga’s astonishment collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” which the brace dropped past month.

Earlier this month, Gaga revealed that successful October, she’ll merchandise the archetypal single from her seventh workplace album, presently known lone arsenic “Lady Gaga 7.”

The hotly anticipated grounds is her archetypal since 2020’s “Chromatica” and appears to beryllium a wholly abstracted task from “Harlequin,” indicated further by this week’s billboards. Those showed the fig “6.5,” per Variety.

The tracks connected “Harlequin” see respective covers, including “Get Happy” which is featured successful the “Folie à Deux” trailer.

Unlike 2019’s “Joker,” which draws heavy from Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” “The King of Comedy,” and “Raging Bull,” “Folie à Deux” is simply a philharmonic intelligence thriller. Joaquin Phoenix volition reprise his relation arsenic the titular Batman arch-nemesis, which antecedently won him his archetypal Academy Award.