Lady Gaga is back to making standards on her sixth (and a half) album, Harlequin, and it’s the first time she’s doing it without Tony Bennett. After two collaborative albums of standards — Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale — this time she’s Joker- fying the genre by singing in a manner inspired by her Joker: Folie à Deux character,

"When Tony passed away, when we found out, we were in our kitchen. The minute it happened, I looked around and realized his art was all around us," Gaga tells EW.

When Lady Gaga wrapped her third movie — the upcoming Joker sequel, Folie à Deux — she realized she wasn’t ready to move on from her character, Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, a.k.a. Harley Quinn. “I had such a deep relationship with Lee,” she tells Rolling Stone. “And when I was done filming the movie, I wasn’t done with her.”