

I was engrossed throughout, not least of all by the music. I thought it lived up to the hype - corny and predictable, sure, but executed with a grace and beauty far beyond what I expected from Cooper’s directorial debut. I saw A Star Is Born at a critics’ screening Monday night. When Ally turns around, puzzled, the rocker smiles and says, “I just wanted to take another look at you.” Cue Gaga face: It’s a scene that’s appeared in all four(!) versions of A Star Is Born: the 1937 silent film, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle, the 1976 Streisand-Kristofferson joint, and Cooper’s new bid for auteurist Oscar cred. You can practically smell the Bud Light and feel the surge of a crowd in that tiny bit.If you remember any scene from the trailer for Bradley Cooper’s new A Star Is Born remake, it is almost certainly the one in which Cooper’s character, declining roots-rock god Jackson Maine, calls from a car window to Lady Gaga’s aspiring singer, identified only as Ally. That's because Ally's huge "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" was a volcanic vocal snippet, so stadium-huge that it was almost funny. Where do you even live?īut okay, if you must: even the smaller sections of the song first heard in the trailer went viral.

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Um, have you heard that song? It's delicate country-tinged confessional balled PLUS power-chord rock chorus PLUS a duet between two very famous people PLUS one of them is Lady Gaga. Why is everyone talking about "Shallow" all the time? He later persuades her to sing the song on stage with him at a concert. As well as being an electric Gaga performance, it's the linchpin of their characters' relationship, and thus the whole movie: After Jackson first sees Ally performing at a drag club he asks whether she writes songs, and she shares little snippets of this song with him.

Why, that viral stunner is called "Shallow." It's a duet between Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. She co-wrote "Alibi," "Is That Alright?," "Always Remember Us This Way," "Music to My Eyes," "Diggin' My Grave," "Heal Me," "I Don't Know What Love Is," "Why Did You Do That," "Hair Body Face," "Before I Cry," and "I'll Never Love Again"Īs for "Shallow"? A hat tip to Gaga herself, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, and Anthony Rossomando. Gaga, of course, had a hand in many of the tunes. Beloved Nashville singer/songwriter and guitarist Jason Isbell wrote "Maybe It's Time," another Jackson Maine song you will recognize from the trailer.ĭiane Warren-who wrote "If I Could Turn Back Time," "Unbreak My Heart," "How Do I Live," ever heard of them?-wrote Ally's pop song "Why Did You Do That?" (it's the one she performs on SNL, with lines like "Why do you look so good in those jeans? Why you come around me with an ass like that?") Nelson's band, Promise of the Real, also play Jackson's band in the movie. Then, there are the Jackson country-rock tunes Jackson Maine sings were actually written by Cooper and son of musical legend Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson. The movie's musical journey kicks off with "La Vie en Rose," which was written by Edith Piaf in 1947. I'll Never Love Again (Extended Version) by Lady Gaga.I'll Never Love Again (Film Version) by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.I Don't Know What Love Is by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.Always Remember Us This Way by Lady Gaga.Diggin' My Grave by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.Music To My Eyes by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Dialogue) by Cast.How many songs are on it?ģ4! That's a lot!!!!! Fourteen of them are dialogue tracks, though, leaving 20 musical tracks. SHOP NOW Is that really Bradley Cooper singing?
