AlbumE · 2018
A Star Is Born Soundtrack
by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
A Star Is Born Soundtrack is a 2018 country rock album by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It runs 34 tracks across 70 minutes on Interscope Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.0/5 from 339 ratings.
Country Rock · Pop · Hard Rock
#42 in Best albums of 2018 · #3 in Best country rock albums
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- 4.0 /5
- 339 ratings
- 70 /100
- 10 critics
- 34
- Tracks
- 70 min
- Runtime
- 115 bpm
- Tempo
- G major
- Key
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339 ratings · avg 4.0
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- AllMusic4/5
- NME4/5
- Rolling Stone4/5
- The Guardian4/5
- The New Zealand Herald4/5
- ConsequenceB
- Pitchfork7.4/10
- The Daily Telegraph3/5
- Slant Magazine2.5/5
- The Times2/5
- Metacriticaggregate78/100
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Tracklist
34 tracks · 70 min · by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
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According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on A Star Is Born Soundtrack is Always Remember Us This Way — rated 4.4/5 by 140 listeners.
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For their retelling of the classic A Star Is Born tale—fading celebrity meets ingénue, passes torch—writer/director Bradley Cooper and costar Lady Gaga had to do a little role reversal. Gaga makes her first turn as a leading lady (big-voiced, fresh-faced singer Ally), while Cooper both directs and sings (ageing country-rocker Jackson Maine) for the first time. It turns out that Cooper is just as impressive a singer as Gaga is an actress, and the intense dynamic between the two leads is present from the start. As Gaga told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe, the pair first huddled around the piano in her Malibu home to practice a Creedence Clearwater Revival song, and she was stunned when she first heard his singing voice. “Instantly we started to harmonise, and we were looking at each other and laughing, and it was just this magical experience.” Cooper claims the inspiration for his character came from Eddie Vedder; Gaga merely needed to look in the mirror, drawing on bittersweet memories of her pre-fame days as Stefani Germanotta, busking outside of bars on Manhattan's Lower East Side. “I was so bullied and so insecure and so depressed, and that is what I drew from”, she recalled.
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That vulnerability is on display in the movie's central number, “Shallow”, a power ballad that comes closest to Gaga’s usual recorded fare. The rest of the soundtrack encompasses country-rockers (“Diggin’ My Grave”), Carole King-style piano bops (“Look What I Found”) and slow-dance duets (“Music to My Eyes”). This wide variety of Broadway-ready cues is the product of a dream team of songwriters, including Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, Jason Isbell, Lori McKenna, Julia Michaels, Lukas Nelson and Mark Ronson. But what grounds it all is Gaga's and Cooper's star power, and their natural flair for the dramatic. The day they filmed the movie's climactic piano torch song, “I'll Never Love Again”, Gaga rushed from the soundstage to her friend Sonya’s bedside at the hospital; she passed away that day, after a long struggle with cancer. At the urging of Sonya's husband, Gaga drove right back to set and poured everything she was feeling into that performance. “I sang that song for Jackson,” she told Zane, “and for her.”
In brief
- Is A Star Is Born Soundtrack good?
- Riffiter listeners rate A Star Is Born Soundtrack 4.0/5 from 339 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- Always Remember Us This Way, rated 4.4/5 by 140 listeners on Riffiter.
- When was A Star Is Born Soundtrack released?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack was released in 2018 on Interscope Records.
- How many tracks are on A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack has 34 tracks, with a runtime of 70 minutes.
- What genre is A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack is catalogued under Country Rock, Pop, Hard Rock.
- What BPM is A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack runs at a median tempo of 115 BPM across its tracks, most often in G major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- Listeners of A Star Is Born Soundtrack also rate Talk That Talk by Rihanna, Bangerz by Miley Cyrus, PRISM by Katy Perry.
- Who produced A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack was produced by Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson, Nick Monson and DJ White Shadow, among 10 credited in total. Lady Gaga produced 13 of them.
- Who wrote the songs on A Star Is Born Soundtrack?
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack was written by Aaron Raitiere, DJ White Shadow, Lady Gaga and Lukas Nelson, among 6 credited in total.
A Star Is Born Soundtrack at a glance
- Label
- Interscope Records
- Recorded at
- Electric Lady Studios
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