'Happy Mistake' Lyrics: Lady Gaga Explains Meaning Behind Original 'Joker' Movie Song

Lady Gaga wrote the original song “Happy Mistake” for her new Joker: Folie à Deux companion album Harlequin and she’s opening up about the meaning behind the lyrics.

The Grammy and Oscar-winning singer is referring to the new album as LG 6.5 as it’s not officially her next album as Lady Gaga.

The album is inspired by Gaga‘s Joker character Lee Quinzel.

So, what inspired this song?

Keep reading to find out more…

“BloodPop and I had written this together and then I kind of took it to the next place. It was all in the image of the character, but also kind of at the very core of her soul, which is really just me,” Gaga told Apple Music.

She continued, “Every character I play, it just has me as the gravity. I am wrestling, on that record, with a lot of feelings about so much that I’ve been through as an artist, everything I went through growing up in the public eye, and the industry since I was a teenager. One of the lyrics is, ‘I’m acting in this play of comedy with tragic words. The audience was smiling, cheering on a scene, absurd.’ I was thinking about when women play these broken characters in music or in films or theater, the audience loves it and they just cheer us on–they cheer on the image of the pain. It’s super confusing when the audience is going crazy and the artist is messed up. So that song is in a lot of ways about that.”

Listen to all of the other songs on the album too!

Read the lyrics below!