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Lady Gaga: Harlequin review – Joker companion album does jazz standards with a gaudy grin
The pop superstar sounds fully in her element in these immaculately covered classics, but the whiff of big band week on the X Factor is hard to shift
At the recent London premiere of twisted musical love story Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga, who stars as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel/Harley Quinn, was asked about her relationship to the character. Having studied method acting for a decade in her teens, and become highly adept on chaotically entertaining press tours for House of Gucci and A Star Is Born, Gaga described “a complex woman that wants to be whoever she wants to be at any given moment”. Having teased fans on social media with photos of her near electric guitars in recent weeks, it’s a relief to hear them on her full-blooded, ragged take on The Joker (last heard as the theme tune to Australian sitcom and enduring meme creator, Kath & Kim), which sounds as if it could have slotted nicely on to 2016’s country-rock opus, Joanne.
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