Welcome back to another song review. I'm your host Charles Cleyn.
I've been listening a lot to the A Star Is Born soundtrack by Bradley Cooper and Lady gaga who are the primary
songwriters as well as many other songwriters, but been mostly listening to the Lady Gaga stuff
and I'm going to be doing some Bradley Cooper reviews of the soundtrack songs today. Specifically,
I'm going to be reviewing Black Eyes, which I can see from here on my computer that it is the
second track on the soundtrack, but really is the first song. So,
expectations are really that it is going to be like a bit of a powerful song because it's the first song
Likely, it was recorded live as most of you suggested in the comments from the previous songs that I've done and reviewed on this album
So,
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Let's get right into this song called Black Eyes by Bradley Cooper.
This is hard rock through and through Black Sabbath, Rush, AC/DC.
Black Eyes is definitely a hardcore rock song. So, pleasantly surprised right now.
That guitar solo that just happened there.
Very neil young style and there's a couple things there
One, Bradley Cooper is a massive. Neil young fan
but also as you might not know or you might know the backing band of the
Soundtrack is actually Neil Young's backing band in real life and the guy who leads that band
his dad is Willie Nelson, and so Nelson is
the frontman of this backing band so you you really have that Neil Young
style. Neil Young's hard rock, sounds similar to this and just the guitar solo that he's doing there is like that hacky
choppy guitar solo that Neil Young does. It's not like an Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix solo where it's a little more
melodic
and blues based. This is like rock, choppy
like one note five times then down to another know five times back and forth a little bit.
So less rhythmic and more choppy, but that's just a stylistic thing and I still think it sounds really nice.
I mean good opening song to the movie. I think cuz it's a powerful
Opener but as a song
I don't would normally not listen to a song like this where I would listen to a song like Shallow
But the song is a little too much hard rock for me it
sounds like a hard rock song that we've heard before. It's very much like a Black Sabbath song
AC/DC maybe not as hard as AC/DC.
Not overly impressed with the song to be honest
But a cool opener just because it has that big guitar rift and lots of distortion and distorted guitars in the background.
So yeah, I'm more like a 6 or 7 on 10 for this song but I think Bradley Cooper as a songwriter and as a singer has done
great job for not doing this before because it sounds really tight his voice is
well put together for this song like he sticks to that range
He doesn't really go high or low kind of sticks to that hardrock range in summary positive reaction and
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