Finally, a Joker: Folie À Deux trailer with some actual singing
Lady Gaga flexes her pipes with a new rendition of Frank Sinatra's "That's Life"
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The stars of Todd Phillips’ Joker musical have emphasized over and over again that the film, which reportedly contains 15 “reinterpretations” of pricey classic songs, isn’t actually a musical at all. Sure, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga recorded songs and learned choreography for it, but it’s really because it’s an edgy film in which the Joker “[doesn’t have] the words to say what he wants to say, so he sings them instead.” Lady Gaga even said she had to forget how to be a good singer to make the whole concept work, telling Variety, “It was a lot about kind of unlearning technique and forgetting how to breathe and allowing the song to completely come out of the character.” It’s curious, then, that Joker: Folie À Deux sounds so much like a musical in the film’s latest trailer. One has to wonder what Phillips planned to say when people actually heard the singing.