A Little Bit Country

On my birthday this year, my cousin Jocelyn and I went to see the new Gwyneth Paltrow movie, Country Strong. The critics panned it and Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 18% splat…but I LOVED it. I loved the acting from the ensemble, the fashion (of course!), *the music* (surprising!) and the sadness (?!) . Oh yes… how I loved the sadness… so haunting and beautiful.

When the stars line up/
and you catch a good break/
and people think your lucky/
but you know it’s grace/
it can happen so fast/
or a little bit late/
timing is everything

*Hold your breath girls* (and the odd boy that will read this)… but I LOVE the soundtrack; in fact I LOVE both soundtracks. This is a shocking revelation because… it’s country. I’m not even a little bit country; I’m a city girl…I go to high tea and my drinks have umbrellas in them, I don’t own a cowboy hat and I certainly don’t listen to the twang of the steel guitar…until now. I love every single song, I relive every single heartbreak and wallow around in the sadness of this melancholy music but the amazing thing about it is: its uplifting.

Try out Summer Girls, Timing is Everything, Coming Home and Give In To Me…you’ll be humming along in city traffic daydreaming about Texas and a boy named Beau. *sigh*