| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hi movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger. | | Yesterday, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper released "Shallow," their centerpiece duet from "A Star is Born," and this surefire winner of the next Oscar for best original song has been on heavy rotation at the Chateau du Carpetbag. You may have heard a snippet of "Shallow" in the trailer for "A Star is Born," where Gaga terraforms a single note from the song until it becomes an entire mountain range. | | That elongated note could seem like a show-offy stunt until you see "Shallow" performed in the context of the movie, where Gaga plays Ally, a never-made-it singer pulled out on stage by Cooper's beguiled rock star. Ally spends the first half of the song almost cowed by the enormity of the moment: She has surely dreamt about giving such a performance to a stadium full of adoring fans, but the world has always been indifferent to her, and she had to scale down her ambitions accordingly. It's moving to watch Ally get the thing she had stopped aspiring to, and when she lets loose with that long, soul-shaking note, it doubles as a declaration: Ally has finally become undeniable, both to her audience and to herself. | | In a world that often doesn't listen to women, a scene and a song and a voice like that can be a tonic. | | |
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