Now that movie musicals are back in a big way and the other pop stars are flocking to the silver screen – Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez et al – Lady Gaga, always ahead of the curve, is back in the recording studio. If any of her filmmaking experience was bruising, it’s useful grist to the mill.
Whereas her debut album Fame (2008) was an artist’s impression of fame and its horrors, Gaga has actually lived the full Hollywood life now as an A-list actress. There were the soaring highest highs of A Star Is Born, where she took home the Oscar for Best Original Song. And then the lowest lows, with box office bomb Joker: Folie à deux. Her tie-in jazz album, Harlequin, was also a flop.
