User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
Harlequin Image
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
tbd

No user score yet- Be the first to review!

  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Lady Gaga is described as a companion album to "Joker: Folie et Deux," the 2024 film she stars in and is directed by Todd Phillips.
Buy Now
Buy on
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Oct 2, 2024
    84
    Harlequin is a brash and goofy mess that will surely be kryptonite to those who were never willing to buy into her many, many eccentricities. For everyone else, it’s a three-word proclamation: GAGA IS BACK.
  2. Oct 4, 2024
    80
    Top to bottom, this is a coveted no-skips effort, elevated by the fun, liberated approach that helps the listener escape reality and push the limits like the characters in the film.
  3. Sep 27, 2024
    75
    Harlequin is interesting and stylistically excellent, but at the same time, it probably won't float to the top in conversations around Lady Gaga's best work. The irony there is that what might be just another another bright feather in her cap is on a level that many artists would aspire to create some day.
  4. Sep 27, 2024
    70
    If nothing else, slipping into Harley Quinn’s checkered duds has afforded Gaga the opportunity to flex her vocal prowess in ways that often feel forced in her usual contemporary pop milieu.
  5. Sep 27, 2024
    70
    Fun, and wildly over-the-top, ‘Harlequin’ scratches an itch for both fan and artist.
  6. Sep 26, 2024
    60
    A curio rather than a classic, Harlequin will please fans of immaculately covered jazz standards, the big band apologists and Gaga fans who felt as if she had lost some of her enthusiasm for music during Chromatica’s protracted gestation.
  7. 60
    There are deft sonic nods to the madness of Harley Quinn – it’s a pity there aren’t more of them.

See all 10 Critic Reviews