If I had another year of prep, it would have been complete rock, but now it's some sort of hybrid.' Writing and recording

Cooper said, 'by the end he just kind of started developing into his own sort of creation. He worked with a number of musicians and vocal coach Roger Love. Ĭooper spent two-and-a-half years prepping for the film and determining what kind of musician his character would be. Cooper plays Jackson Maine, 'a veteran country singer who discovers and eventually falls in love with a struggling singer-songwriter named Ally, played by Gaga.' Gaga 'helped inform Cooper's performance as a musician'. Lady Gaga was officially attached to the film in August 2016, with the studio green-lighting the project to begin production in early 2017. announced that Bradley Cooper was in talks to make his directorial debut with A Star Is Born, the fourth iteration of the 1937 film of the same name. In just over a year, the soundtrack managed to become the 33rd biggest album of the 2010s on the US Billboard 200. It also won Best Film Music at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards. Ī Star Is Born was nominated for a total of seven Grammy Awards, winning Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media for the song 'Shallow', and a year later Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and another Best Song Written for Visual Media, this time for 'I'll Never Love Again (Film Version)'. The track ' Shallow' was released as the soundtrack's lead single on September 27, 2018, while ' Always Remember Us This Way' and ' I'll Never Love Again' also received a limited release in selected countries.

Commercially, the album has topped the charts in more than 15 countries, attaining gold and platinum certifications from many of them, while selling over six million copies worldwide as of June 2019. The soundtrack is a pop and blues rock album containing songs about love and its struggles. The soundtrack also includes contributions from Jason Isbell, Mark Ronson, Diane Warren, and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow. Cooper teamed up with Gaga's recurring collaborator DJ White Shadow, and an assortment of country musicians, including Lukas Nelson, who also stars in the film as a member of Cooper's band.

It was released on October 5, 2018, by Interscope Records. A Star Is Born is the soundtrack album to the 2018 musical film of the same name, performed by its stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

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