is revealing how she changed her singing voice for her version of Harley Quinn (aka Lee) in . The Oscar and Grammy winner, who stars opposite in ‘ musical sequel, recently opened up to about how her singing in the movie was “unlike anything I’ve ever done before.” “People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me as performer, but that is not what this movie is; I’m playing a character,” she explained.
“So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee and to come from me as a performer.” The actress knew the music in the film needed to be treated with care, given that it was going to be incorporated into the storyline. “How do you take music and have it just be an extension of the dialogue, as opposed to breaking into song for no conceivable reason?” Gaga asked.
“It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before.” This led the “Shallow” singer to explore a different side of her as a performer — one that fans have never seen before. “For me, there’s plenty of bum notes, actually, from Lee,” she said, with a laugh, of her singing voice in the movie.
“I’m a trained singer, right? So even my breathing was different when I sang as Lee. When I breathe to sing onstage, I have this very controlled way to make sure that I’m on pitch, and it’s sustained at the right rhythm and amount of time, but Lee would never know how to do any of that. So it’s like removing the technicality of the whole thing, removing my perceived.