Let’s hit play on this week’s Bop After Bop…Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The world is a stage, and pop’s ultimate jester, Lady Gaga, is pulling the strings and making us take a seat with her surprise new album Harlequin.
A companion album to her new film Joker: Folie à Deux, where she stars as Harley Quinn, the album is a chaotic carnival of emotions that includes reworked songs from the film as well as two original tracks.
One of those tracks is the haunting ode “Happy Mistake,” where Gaga peels back the layers of her past, reflecting on her identity and how far she’s come.
With every note, she dances between madness and melancholy, delivering pristine vocals while embodying the theatricality of a true harlequin—part fool, part genius.