In between concocting the newsletters about personalized melamine plates for children and the one about the "fun frivolity of fashion that can really cheer a girl up," Gwyneth Paltrow filmed Country Strong, where she played a country singer who works to rebuild her career with an ascending singer and it complicates her relationship with her husband/manager, played by Tim McGraw. In the trailer we got a brief glimpse of Paltrow's vocal strength, but it wasn't live and it's unclear if that was really her voice or if it was just the creampuff and sudsy loofah voice of the red dress she wears in the scene (that was sewn by dandelions who's petals were organically speckled with maple syrup!).
But we'll finally get to hear Gwyneth's real and unedited voice when she performs the title song from the movie at the Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee next month. Alongside her will be real country music star, Vince Gill, who she'll no doubt be looking at the whole time for guidance, but we will have already been told it's just because she's surprised it's not Keith Urban. Last week, when the music video for Country Strong premiered, Shana Feste (who directed the movie), said Gwyneth had "the chops to be a truly believable country singer...." Feste is just lucky we were asked to believe she was a mathematician first.
We shall see how it goes! After all, she is married to Coldplay's Chris Martin, and she is very good friends with Jay-Z and Beyoncé, so she's probably gotten some musical gifts somewhere. But performing on stage in front of a trillion people who are wearing better cowboy boots than you is quite a lofty task to achieve. At least getting us to wear her "uniform" isn't the only bar she's set for herself.
Source: People