Girl Gaga has launched her live performance movie ‘Girl Gaga in Harlequin Dwell – One Night time Solely’ at no cost on YouTube – watch beneath.
The present in query was filmed within the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles on 30 September 2024 in entrance of a small viewers, and it noticed her performing tracks from her ‘Harlequin’ album, the companion piece to the movie Joker: Folie à Deux.
‘Harlequin’ is made up of Gaga’s covers of jazz requirements reminiscent of ‘Get Glad’, ‘Oh When The Saints’, ‘That’s Leisure’, ‘Smile’ and ‘That’s Life’, with the whole mission impressed by the musical interludes in Todd Phillips’ movie, through which Gaga performed Harley Quinn.
‘Girl Gaga in Harlequin Dwell – One Night time Solely’ acquired a premiere on the Grammy Museum this week, and now the 51-minute movie has been posted to Gaga’s official YouTube account, and you may watch the entire thing right here:
Explaining the YouTube launch, Gaga instructed Selection: “I’m feeling like, why not? We’ve this factor that’s so particular to us, so we’re simply actually glad to share it with the followers. It’s type of a rebellious mission. And, by Harlequin requirements, Christmas is the right time to launch one thing rebellious.”
The ‘Harlequin’ album went on to be nominated for Finest Conventional Pop Album on the 2026 Grammys, whereas Gaga’s newer studio album ‘Mayhem’ picked up an additional seven nominations.
Gaga headlined Coachella 2025 however didn’t play any of the tracks from ‘Harlequin’, prompting some followers to complain on social media. The singer herself responded to at least one remark, describing ‘Harlequin’ as “certainly one of my proudest items of manufacturing”.
NME additionally gave Joker: Folie à Deux a four-star overview, saying that Gaga “shines in a provocative jail musical” and: “[director Todd] Phillips and [co-writer Scott] Silver have delivered the very last thing anybody anticipated: a socially accountable Joker film that finds an intriguing method to discover the implications (each on and offscreen) of the primary movie. Joker followers shouldn’t cry too arduous although – Warner Bros. have cleverly discovered a method to go away the door open somewhat for the franchise to proceed, ought to the necessity come up.“
Others weren’t so complimentary concerning the movie, and Gaga has since stated that the damaging response made her “snigger” as a result of it was “simply getting so unhinged”.
‘Mayhem’, in the meantime, was launched in March and earned 4 stars from NME. “There’s a nonchalant confidence in the best way Gaga sticks to her maximalist imaginative and prescient with out pandering to modern pop traits,” the overview learn. “Most ‘Mayhem’ tracks run near or over 4 minutes, making them mini-epics within the TikTok period.”
“Finally, ‘Mayhem’ seems like a fantastic Gaga album as a result of it’s simply a lot enjoyable. At occasions, it’s a bit like reconnecting with an previous good friend who is smart even once they appear to be chatting nonsense. Seventeen years after she broke by with ‘Simply Dance’, Girl Gaga stays pop’s foremost agent of impeccably crafted chaos.”
The document landed at quantity 19 on NME’s record of the very best albums of 2025, whereas ‘Abracadabra’ was named the quantity 20 tune of 2025.
