The movie is good- the only thing keeping this from getting a higher rating from me is that the music is some serious buttrock. Bradley Cooper's solo songs could be pulled off of any Nickelback CD- seriously cheesy riffing over completely played out chords/ vocal melodies. Its hard to swallow, let alone believe in. In no believable world would these songs turn a man into a "rockstar".

Lady Gaga's vocals are quite extraordinary, but her solo segments / songs are also sadly very cheesy. None of the song writing exhibits any real depth- everything sounds "nice" with an obvious intention of eliciting some sort of artificial emotion in the audience. There is a serious lack of depth in the songwriting exhibited in the entire movie, which is a glaring problem for me. Its basically a musical with bad music. So I ask you- what is the point?