Take a Moment to Watch Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst Cover “Shallow”

In the year 2019, Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst covered Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-winning song “Shallow” from the film A Star is Born at their Better Oblivion Community Center show in Brooklyn on Monday.

Bridgers previously released said prophecy into the universe in February with a tweet:

petition to make conor do shallow with me on tour

— millennial falcon (@phoebe_bridgers) February 25, 2019

Bridgers and Oberst were accompanied by Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who contributes slide guitar to their rendition. Oberst does his best Jackson Maine, at one point tweaking the lyric “and in the bad times I fear myself” in a cheeky nod to the fate of Cooper’s character. Bridgers’ take on the Gaga part, however, is no joke whatsoever.

So far on their inaugural tour as Better Oblivion Community Center, the indie duo have covered The Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait,” The Killers’ “Human” and Death Cab For Cutie’s “Title And Registration.”

Watch the footage of the duo’s “Shallow” cover (via Brooklyn Vegan) below and revisit Bridgers’ 2017 Paste Studio session further down.