What songs feature in the Joker 2 soundtrack? Folie à Deux musical elements explained
Prepare to be serenaded by the Joker and Harley Quinn.
It's finally here: Joker: Folie à Deux, the hotly-anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning 2019 DC film has arrived in UK cinemas.
Ahead of the release, one question has dominated the conversation: is Joker 2 a musical? Rumours about this had initially been fuelled by Lady Gaga’s casting as Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, and it soon became apparent that the film would be incorporated several classic songs into its narrative.
But while music is an essential element in the upcoming film, director Todd Phillips has said he is hesitant to call it a musical, previously telling Variety: "Most of the music in the movie is really just dialogue. It's just Arthur not having the words to say what he wants to say, so he sings them instead."
He continued: "I just don't want people to think that it's like In the Heights, where the lady in the bodega starts to sing and they take it out onto the street, and the police are dancing. No disrespect, because I loved In the Heights."
Meanwhile, speaking at CinemaCon, he added (via Entertainment Weekly): "We never really talked about it like that, but I like to say it's a film where music is an essential element. To me, that doesn't veer too far from the first film.
"Arthur's weird and aloof and all these things, but he has music in him. He has a grace to him. That informed a lot of the dancing in the first film... it didn't feel like that big of a step here. It's different, but I think it'll make sense when you see it."
Speaking further about casting Gaga, he said: "We cast Gaga because she's magic. I was a producer on A Star Is Born... That was the first time I really met her and got to watch her work.
"As we were writing this script, Scott [Silver], who I wrote it with, kept going back to her."
The Joker 2 soundtrack is not to be confused with Lady Gaga’s record Harlequin, a 13-song album the singer is releasing to accompany her new film.
So, what songs feature in Joker 2? Read on for the full list.
What songs feature in the Joker 2 soundtrack?
You can find the full lists of songs featured in the film below:
- For Once in My Life performed by Joaquin Phoenix
- If My Friends Could See Me Now performed by Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga
- Folie à Deux (Soundtrack Version) performed by Lady Gaga
- Bewitched performed by Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga
- That's Entertainment (Soundtrack Version) performed by Lady Gaga
- When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) performed by Joaquin Phoenix
- To Love Somebody performed by Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga
- (They Long to Be) Close to You performed by Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga
- The Joker performed by Joaquin Phoenix
- Gonna Build a Mountain performed by Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga
- I've Got the World on a String performed by Lady Gaga
- If You Go Away performed by Joaquin Phoenix
- Gonna Build a Mountain (Reprise) performed by Joaquin Phoenix
- That's Life performed by Lady Gaga
- True Love Will Find You in the End performed by Joaquin Phoenix
Joker 2 score
The full details of the score for Joker 2 score by composer Hildur Guðnadóttir have also been revealed:
- It’s Showtime
- That Dumb Laugh
- Same Ol’ Joker
- The Real You
- Back on TV
- Buy Me a Drink First?
- Trial of the Century
- My Mother Had Me Committed
- The Saints
- The Other Half
- Social Services
- Knock Knock
- Doppelgänger
- That’s All, Folks
- Old Neighborhood
- Uh Oh, I’m in Trouble
- Voices
- There Is No Joker
- It’s All Theater
Joker: Folie à Deux will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 4th October 2024.
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