It’s been nearly a week since the Oscars ceremony, and still people are wondering exactly what they witnessed in the steamy live performance of the song “Shallow” by Lady Gaga and actor/director Bradley Cooper: a duet or a declaration?
To wit, just Saturday, this:
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga fans think they've spotted 'evidence' of affairhttps://t.co/ey9yDjKCZM pic.twitter.com/txDzKHnPbd
— Mirror Celeb (@MirrorCeleb) March 2, 2019
The week’s speculation, or at least a notable proportion of it, was in spite of the artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta’s having taken the question on directly, saying, with an eye roll, on ABC’s DIS, +1.04% “Jimmy Kimmel Live”:
‘I’m an artist, and I guess we did a good job. Fooled you.’ Lady Gaga
“People,” she said, “saw love, and — guess what — that’s what we wanted you to see. This is a love song, ‘Shallow,’ [and] the movie, ‘A Star Is Born,’ is a love story.”
An Elle story did some additional work on the pressing matter, addressing those — including on the set of “The View,” where one co-host insisted this sort of chemistry can’t be feigned — who might remain unpersuaded that the actors were merely acting and, further, might be concerned that a real-life romantic partner would have been made uncomfortable, at least in the moment. Not to worry, it concluded.
