So, is Gwyneth the next Yoko Ono?*
*Disclaimer: while i like Coldplay a lot, i do not mean to imply that they are as musically significant as the Beatles.
Why does everybody pick on Yoko? Why can’t she be the next Linda McCartney?
Chris Martin is awful damn cute and writes GREAT melodies, and decent lyrics, but he doesn’t strike me as terribly smart.
On the other hand, Paltrow has a tolerable voice, so let’s wait and see how it comes out.
Her song from Duets was apparently quite popular in Australia.
Or something like that.
I thought this thread was about Coldplay’s promtion of fairly traded goods. Oh well.
Don’t blame me; i just borrowed the article’s headline.
For those who are interested, here is the original article from The Sun.
The Sun: A bastion of accurate reporting in the UK media 
I can’t see that a backing singer will have much influence, it could just be a ‘nice thing’ to do for her. She’s much likely to have more influence through just begin married to him, and spending oodles of time together.
I take your point, and i certainly don’t think it will have much of an effect on the music. In fact the article noted that it was the latter issue that seemed to be of most concern to the band members.
Here’s a suggestion: if they really need a backing singer on the album, why not actually hire a good one from among the thousands of talented, perenially-underemployed singers out there, rather than giving the job to a multi-millionaire dilletante who apparently needs to take singing lessons just to cut the mustard?
Maybe she’s doing it for free, and if she’s good enough why not?
Maybe they just needed a little more publicity.
Ben and J-Lo in the making.
Pu. Bli. Ci. Ty. 
Besides, she’s his fiancee, she gets privileges like that.
Ack. Dilemma.
What do I do when the next Coldplay album comes out–snap it up the day it’s released like the rabid Coldplay fan I am, or continue my personal policy of doing nothing that will advance the fame, fortune or influence of Gwyneth Paltrow?
Boy, I’m glad I just think they both suck and have no such dilemmas. 
Could be like Trent Reznor’s cameo on Tori Amos’s “Under the Pink” i.e., barely audible. Background vocals can actually be done by so-so singers, since they aren’t front and center, and often you can dub them in afterwards with as many takes as you need to make it work.
Or, alternatively, it could be a priceless backing vocal like Mick Jagger’s on Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”. But I kinda doubt that it’ll ever be THAT good.
You’re right… but… really? It was only popular here?
What’s wrong with us???
Paltrow’s gonna need them. And remember, I’m from the country where she had her hit. Oh the shame.
Give the guy a break. If Gwyneth were rubbing her fleshy goodness on me at regular intervals, I’d let her sing backup on my album as well.
At least we know there’ll be no Dobly on the next album
It’s Lyle Lovett & Julia Roberts all over again. Gaah.
Gwyneth has a passable voice, but when will musicians figure this out?
Non-singer girlfriend/wife on the album, in the video or otherwise involved in the record = Greatly increased chances of the marriage going up in flames making a huge swath of your work unpalatable to you by association.
(See, by way of example: Jackson Browne + Daryl Hannah; Bruce Springsteen + Julianne whosis; Billy Joel + Christy Brinkley; Adam Duritz + Courtney Cox)