In the third episode of Sweet or Sour, Season Two, junior Clover Martin and senior Gwen Brown cover “Harlequin,” Lady Gaga’s newest project, which came out Sept. 23. The 13-track long album serves as a companion album to “Joker: Folie à Deux,” where she stars as Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker.
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Sweet or Sour: “Harlequin” by Lady Gaga
October 9, 2024
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Clover Martin, Editor
Senior Clover Martin was born in Pacifica, California, a small coastal town that still calls her back each summer — though Oregon keeps her plenty busy these days.
She makes occasional trips back for music expos or festivals with her father, a composer who helped shape her lifelong love for sound, but her sights are set far beyond the West Coast. Once graduation hits, she’s planning to pack her bags for Florence, Berlin, and wherever else the world will take her.
Growing up surrounded by music, Clover has tried her hand at plenty of instruments, from guitar to harmonica to didgeridoo, but drums remain her constant favorite.
It’s rare to catch her in the hallways without AirPods or headphones in, often turned up too loud, as her friends love to remind her. She’s never confined herself to one genre, but during this school year, you can often find her listening to loud techno, club, or rock music to get herself hyped up. Currently, she especially loves Nine Inch Nails and LCD Soundsystem.
Her favorite classes this year are AP English IV, Honors French 4, and Anatomy and Physiology — a course she’s particularly excited about, given her interest in neuroscience and hopes to pursue it later in college.
Rain or shine, when she’s not darting through the halls, you might find Clover lying in the grass of the academic courtyard — sunglasses pulled over her eyes and music in her ears.
Gwen Brown, Assistant Editor
Senior Gwen Brown loves to experience new things and isn’t scared to get dirty or wet. She spends a lot of her time outside of school exploring the Pacific Northwest, where she’s lived her entire life.
Growing up with easy access to Mt. Hood and the Oregon Coast, she was swimming through waves and skiing down slopes if she wasn’t camping at a lake.
Nowadays, Gwen tries to find time to snowboard in between her wrestling and homework schedule. She has wrestled since her sophomore year at Cleveland High School and hopes to go to state this year.
You can often find her with headphones on, nodding along to music, which she would love to talk about if you ask her. She tries to keep an open mind when it comes to music, and enjoys listening to a variety of genres, favoring electronic the most.
Once she graduates, she hopes to travel for college and major in marine biology.