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Hear 'Shallow,' Lady Gaga's Slow-Burning Power Ballad From 'A Star Is Born'

A Star Is Born promises a stylistically wide-ranging soundtrack. But first, hear a dramatic duet between Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
Lady Gaga plays Ally in <em>A Star Is Born</em> alongside Bradley Cooper.

's constant reinvention has never felt arch; instead, it takes frequent detours off pop music's highway. "I feel like my whole career is ," she told NPR's Michel, she plays Ally, an unknown singer-songwriter who meets Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper). He wants to make her a star — yet another character for Gaga to inhabit while re-orbiting her own music.

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