Then Lady Gaga came by and I met her and we clicked. Nelson said he began "writing songs for the movie, just for the heck of it, and sending them over to the producer, and they started liking them. Ĭooper approached Lukas Nelson (son of country music singer Willie Nelson) after seeing him perform at Desert Trip in October 2016 and asked him to work on the film as a music consultant. Isbell sent the song through Dave Cobb, a Nashville-based producer with whom Cooper had been collaborating. That was our launching pad and then it was just about discovering what songs fit in the right places." Jason Isbell wrote a song for Cooper's character, which became "the sword with which a lot of the music spawned from ".
There is no lyric that's ever in any point of the movie that doesn't have exactly to do with where one of them is or hopes to be or regrets being. The songs were recorded at Electric Lady Studios, among other locations.Ĭooper described the soundtrack "an evolution, like the story." Gaga and Cooper were writing songs for the soundtrack during filming, leading to "so many different incarnations of each song." Cooper added that "the music really became a character in the movie. 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.