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Oct 2, 2024Harlequin 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.
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Oct 4, 2024Top 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.
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Sep 27, 2024Harlequin 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.
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Nov 7, 2024Harlequin’s true-to-form reprisal of big band tunes removes Lady Gaga, a cultural fixture, from her context, proving her true passion: showmanship.
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Sep 27, 2024Harlequin is a tantalizing placeholder, but it’s all her, since Gaga’s passion for Old Hollywood glamour and grotesquerie has always been deep in her fame-monster soul.
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Sep 27, 2024Fun, and wildly over-the-top, ‘Harlequin’ scratches an itch for both fan and artist.
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Sep 27, 2024If 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.
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Sep 27, 2024There are deft sonic nods to the madness of Harley Quinn – it’s a pity there aren’t more of them.
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Sep 27, 2024Her gorgeous 1960’s Dusty Springfield style version of World of a String could be a pop hit in any era.
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Sep 26, 2024A 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.