“Shallow” by Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper

"Shallow" is the moment A Star Is Born catches fire, a Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper duet that Interscope sent out as the soundtrack's lead single on September 27, 2018. Gaga wrote it with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, co-produced it with Benjamin Rice, and pitched it from her character Ally's point of view, two people asking each other whether they can live with who they are.

It's a power ballad that folds rock, country and folk-pop together, the two trading verses as it climbs toward Gaga's big vocal run in the last chorus, with crowd noise and applause dotted through the recording. It topped charts in more than twenty countries and won the Oscar for Best Original Song, plus a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and two Grammys.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.