After finishing filming Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga realized she wasn't quite ready to let go of the character she had meticulously explored, created, and inhabited for so long. She began to imagine what a record from the perspective of "Harley Quinn," aka "Lee," would be, finding the music in the chaos. Harlequin is therefore the album Lady Gaga had to make. A farewell to the character, an end for "Lee." In this sense, Harlequin can be seen as a companion to Joker: Folie à Deux, but it's also more than that - it's the complete realization of an artistic vision by Lady Gaga. These 13 songs blend jazz, surf-punk, blues, and classics into a record that feels both familiar and completely new. And while fans eagerly await her return to pop, she continues to have fun pursuing her creative explorations and giving us LG6.5...while we wait for LG7!