> “I was moved by the fact that there was this mentioning of psychosis that would be related to my character, Lee, so in the music, it was important to me that I addressed what it means to descend into fantasy in your life,” Gaga says, pointing to both the film’s subtitle (translation: “madness for two”) and one of Harlequin’s original compositions, a haunting ballad titled “Happy Mistake.” The song, she says, reflects “the way I’ve split off into personalities throughout my career.”
> “Playing a strung-out girl my whole career was a way for me to split off from my true self, but, it’s all me,” she says. “Basically, that song says if I was ever going to find joy or happiness in my life, it would probably feel like an accident. Where I was in my life for a long time, I was on a path that was pretty futile because I was so split off from reality. My dedicated fans know this about me, that playing a persona had a price, and it has a price for Lee and her love of Joker. There’s definitely a way that I address that on this record.”
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> “I was moved by the fact that there was this mentioning of psychosis that would be related to my character, Lee, so in the music, it was important to me that I addressed what it means to descend into fantasy in your life,” Gaga says, pointing to both the film’s subtitle (translation: “madness for two”) and one of Harlequin’s original compositions, a haunting ballad titled “Happy Mistake.” The song, she says, reflects “the way I’ve split off into personalities throughout my career.”
> “Playing a strung-out girl my whole career was a way for me to split off from my true self, but, it’s all me,” she says. “Basically, that song says if I was ever going to find joy or happiness in my life, it would probably feel like an accident. Where I was in my life for a long time, I was on a path that was pretty futile because I was so split off from reality. My dedicated fans know this about me, that playing a persona had a price, and it has a price for Lee and her love of Joker. There’s definitely a way that I address that on this record.”