Lady Gaga stays in character on Harlequin. It’s her companion to Joker: Folie a Deux, inspired by her role as Harley Quinn. But it’s a luxuriant album of jazzy swing, mostly standards, right in her sweet spot.

As the Oscar winner prepares to debut her Harley Quinn in 'Joker: Folie á Deux', Lady Gaga recently announced the companion album 'Harlequin'.

The most daring is on ‘The Joker.’ Michael [Polansky, Gaga’s fiancé] and I wanted to show the defiance of Lee proclaiming that she is the real criminal in all of this,” Gaga told Entertainment Weekly,