What Song Is In The Joker: Folie À Deux Trailer (& What It Means)

Summary

• The Joker: Folie À Deux trailer teases a number of sequences in the jukebox musical co-starring Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.
• The Joker sequel trailer includes a cover of a 1960s song that is an emotional cry for hope.
• The song choice in the trailer suggests a connection to Joker's emotional journey and relationship with Harley Quinn.

The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has arrived, and it has a musical element that is an apt choice to emulate the mental struggles of Joaquin Phoenix’s antihero Arthur Fleck. A sequel to Todd Phillips’ DC blockbuster Joker, the confirmed details about Joker: Folie à Deux suggest it would play out as a jukebox musical. With the Joker: Folie à Deux cast also featuring Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, the toxic romance between Gotham’s Clown Prince and his psychiatrist-turned-love interest gets a major makeover. What’s interesting, however, is how much the trailer underplays the film’s musical elements.
With the Joker: Folie à Deux trailer offering some hallucinatory stage visuals, these scenes serve as a pastiche of old musicals or Broadway theatrics with both Joker and Harley Quinn performing duets. While Lady Gaga has already enjoyed a Grammy-winning stint as a pop star before her acting career, the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line similarly makes Phoenix’s musical turn as Joker promising. Still, the trailer doesn’t find either Phoenix or Gaga actually performing any musical numbers. A cover of a song is heard over the trailer footage though, one that might be more than just a yesteryear needle drop.


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