Lady Gaga calls her fiancé Michael Polansky her “best friend”

Lady Gaga is blown away. During a conversation on the red carpet at the premiere of ” Joker: Folie à Deux The singer couldn't stop gushing about her fiancé, tech entrepreneur Michael Polansky, with whom she collaborated on her just-released album joker accompanying album, harlequin.

“It's just the first time we've decided to fully commit to it and do it. It just felt right,” she said People Magazine from Polansky, who serves as co-executive producer of the LP, which features a mix of jazzy standards and two new songs. “We were both so excited. We were all warmed up and ready to go.” Polansky also co-wrote a few songs harlequinincluding “Good Morning,” “Get Happy,” “Oh, When the Saints” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” standards that the pair refreshed lyrically and musically.

Gaga and Polansky were first spotted kissing at a 2020 New Year's Eve party before making their relationship Instagram official in February with a post from the Super Bowl in Miami. The singer made it official by calling Polansky “the love of my life” in an interview later that year. Their engagement apparently became known by accident at the Paris Olympics this summer, when the French Prime Minister's office leaked the news.

“I just love my fiancé so much,” she said People. “He's my best friend. He's my partner and I just feel like everything changes when you're with your best friend.” In a recent interview, Gaga also credited Polansky with providing the inspiration for her upcoming, as-yet-untitled seventh studio album , and said he was the one who convinced them to make a full-fledged pop album. “He was like, ‘Babe, I love you. You have to make pop music,” she said of the record, which is due out in February.

Gaga also revealed a bit in a recent interview to promote the sequel, which is set to be released on Friday (October 4), when she said: “I'm so happy to be in love and I'm so happy to have a family to have.” . That's definitely number one, but I also really believe in the ability to grow as a person. This feeling can give hope to anyone. I just want to keep growing.”

Watch the red carpet interview below.