Woman Gaga has insisted Harlequin stays one in every of her “proudest items.”
The 39-year-old singer has responded after followers joked about her Coachella headline set on Friday (April 11), which did not embrace any songs from her 2024 Joker: Folie a Deux companion album, whereas she additionally shunned previous information Artpop, Joanne and ‘Chromatica‘.
A fan shared a meme on TikTok from Gaga’s set which confirmed her mendacity amongst skeletons on stage, and so they labeled every skeleton with one of many omitted albums.
Referencing a 2019 tweet by Gaga, they wrote: “Effectively Gaga doesn’t keep in mind Artpop and I don’t suppose she’ll keep in mind Harlequin.”
Nevertheless, the “Illness” hit-maker responded: “Harlequin is one in every of my proudest items of manufacturing.”
Gaga took inspiration from her Joker 2 character Harley Quinn for the LP, however insisted it was nonetheless her album.
She beforehand advised Rolling Stone journal: “It’s my document. It’s a Woman Gaga document, however it’s additionally impressed by my character and my imaginative and prescient of what a lady could be.
“It’s why the album doesn’t adhere to at least one style. I known as it ‘6.5’ as a result of it’s not my subsequent studio album that’s a pop document, however it’s someplace in between, and it’s blurring the strains of pop music.
“As you recognize, my collaborator Tony Bennett, who’s now not alive, was younger singing this music. It was simply pop music. And I believed it was so fascinating, the songs that had been chosen to create this movie. I wished to discover what this music may imply right now by the lens of her.”
Gaga defined how style was used “to specific that one thing is uncommon.”
She added: “We talked rather a lot about her being someone you could’t make clear, as a result of she is just too unpredictable and uncommon.
“[We] used style as a approach to specific that one thing is uncommon — by not adhering to at least one and going closely into the avant-garde.
“I’m principally saying, ‘As a lady, I select to be no matter and whoever I wish to be at any given second, irrespective of how I really feel. And it doesn’t matter what you need from me, I shall be myself. Thanks. Love, Harlequin.'”
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