Girl Gaga hasn’t taken her foot off the fuel this yr. Her live performance movie Gaga Chromatica Ball dropped within the spring and he or she wrapped up her Jazz + Piano residency in Las Vegas in July; a number of weeks after that, she gave an unforgettable efficiency in French on the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Paris. And simply final month, she teased her return to music with the Bruno Mars collab “Die With a Smile.”

Now, the extremely anticipated launch of Joker: Folie à Deux is only a week away, and Gaga is beginning the celebration early with Harlequin, her companion album for the film containing soundtrack songs and two new unique tracks.

The album largely consists of covers of beloved jazz requirements and different classics from the previous century which might be featured all through the movie indirectly. From “Good Morning” and “Get Completely happy” to “That’s Leisure” and “Smile,” Gaga—or quite, her character Lee—places her personal spin on Nice American Songbook.

Within the lead-up to the album’s launch, Gaga dubbed the undertaking “LG 6.5,” a cheeky indication that this undertaking is one thing fully separate from her upcoming studio album, codenamed LG7, due out in February. When talking to Rolling Stone in regards to the distinction and whether or not this qualifies as a Girl Gaga album or a Harley Quinn album, she defined how the creation of this album itself is emblematic of her inventive profession as a complete.

“I view this as each, really,” she stated. “It’s a Girl Gaga file, nevertheless it’s additionally impressed by my character and my imaginative and prescient of what a lady will be. It’s why the album doesn’t adhere to at least one style.”

She expanded on that concept in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.

“For me, this concept of twin identities was all the time one thing that was part of my music-making, and I used to be all the time form of creating characters in my music. And after I made Lee for Joker, she simply actually had this profound impact on me,” Gaga stated. “I used to be capable of uncover the character by means of the [movie’s] story, by means of the music that we did stay on daily basis in addition to dance and the costumes and the make-up.”

After it was all stated and executed, Gaga wasn’t capable of step out of the Harley Quinn character. So, whereas she was nonetheless mentally residing as Lee, she created one thing that the long-lasting comedian e book determine herself could be pleased with.

“I form of had this deep expertise with the character, and he or she simply didn’t actually go away me creatively, and I made a decision I needed to make a complete album impressed by her,” Gaga stated. “She’s a very complicated lady.”

Joker: Folie à Deux is in theaters Oct. 4.