A little event dropped at last night’s Country Music Association Awards: Gwyneth Paltrow took to the stage to perform “Country Strong,” the title track from the upcoming Screen Gems release, with a little help from country star Vince Gill.
I haven’t seen the film yet, but depending on how the original songs are used in the film, we could be looking at a nominee in, say, “Me and Tennessee” or “Coming Home.” I’ve been going back and forth on something from that or something from “Burlesque,” both Screen Gems releases. But I’ve felt compelled to list two tracks from “Tangled” all this time. Turns out we can nix the idea of multiple songs making it from that Disney effort, though.
One nugget I turned up during my interview with composer Alan Menken this afternoon is that only one song from the film — “I See the Light” — will be submitted for Oscar consideration. It was a collective decision, and the reason, he freely admitted, was calculation.