Lady Gaga‘s fiancé Michael Polansky is her associate in life — and now within the recording studio!
On Friday, Sept. 27, the “Dangerous Romance” singer launched her newest studio album, Harlequin, which serves as a companion album to the upcoming movie Joker: Folie à Deux.
Polansky, 41, served as a co-executive producer on the album with Gaga, and the pair are each credited as co-writers on 4 tracks: “Good Morning,” “Get Completely satisfied,” “On When the Saints” and “If My Associates Might See Me Now.”
All the album is made up of covers, except for “Completely satisfied Mistake,” the one authentic observe written by Gaga, 38, and her longtime collaborator Bloodpop. In the meantime, the songs that she collaborated on with Polansky are requirements and present tunes that they up to date sonically and lyrically.
The “Alejandro” singer introduced the album earlier this week following a sequence of cryptic social media posts and billboards.
Gaga has embodied her position of Lee (a model of Harley Quinn) in Folie à Deux, out Oct. 4, for the advertising and marketing of the brand new album.
Nonetheless, she assured followers that authentic Gaga music continues to be on the way in which with a cheeky billboard that dubbed Harlequin as “6.5” — and “LG7” continues to be set to reach early subsequent 12 months, following a brand new single in October.
On Sept. 26, Gaga sat down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 and opened up concerning the inspiration behind the album.
“This concept of twin identities was at all times one thing that was part of my music making. I used to be at all times creating characters in my music and after I made Lee for Joker, she simply actually had this profound impact on me,” she stated. “I type of had this deep expertise with the character and she or he simply did not actually go away me creatively and I made a decision I wished to make an entire album impressed by her.”
Gaga added, “She’s a extremely complicated girl and I feel, significantly as a girl in music and a feminine producer, it was actually enjoyable to go, ‘This album can be and I can be what I would like, after I resolve, at any time when I really feel prefer it. If I would like it to be blues, it will be blues. If I would like it to be funk, it will be funk. If I would like it to be soul, it will be soul.'”
That very same day, the pop star and actress made her red carpet debut Polansky on the London premiere of the movie.
Chatting with Buzzfeed Canada, Gaga was requested what she hopes to manifest for herself within the subsequent 15 years.
“, I’m so completely satisfied to be in love and I’m so excited to have a household,” Gaga responded of Polansky, who she was first linked to in 2020. “In order that’s positively primary.”
As for the upcoming “LG7” album, Gaga lately advised Vogue that it was Polanksy’s idea.
“Michael is the one who advised me to make a brand new pop report,” she advised the style journal. “He was like, ‘Babe. I like you. You might want to make pop music.’ ”
In the identical cowl story, Polansky added: “Like anybody would do for the individual they love, I inspired her to lean in to the enjoyment of it. On the Chromatica tour, I noticed a hearth in her; I wished to assist her maintain that alive on a regular basis and simply begin making music that made her completely satisfied.”