Is this getting discovered?

Country Strong will be opening in theaters Dec 22, 2010. The movie is about country singer songwriter played by Garrett Hedlund, and  the comeback of a country singer, played by Gwenyth Paltrow.

Paltrow's connection with karaoke has been documented before in this blog. Hedlund also has a connection to karaoke. He auditioned in a karaoke bar.

I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea here. Hedlund was not discovered in a karaoke bar. Getting discovered through karaoke is a favorite topic of mine:
Getting discovered through karaoke
Update on getting discovered
Finally some real research on karaoke

Just in case you don't have time to read these fantastic blog posts, let me summarize. I still have not found a celebrity who was discovered because there was a talent scout at a karaoke bar who happened to hear them.

Hedlund came close to being the first recipient of the Discovered Through Karaoke Prize. Unfortunately, his performance was an official audition. The director, Shana Feste, didn't know whether Hedlund could sing. What better way to check this out, than at a karaoke bar?

Gwenyth Paltrow on Glee!

Gwenyth Paltrow has been a long time advocate of karaoke. She has never (to my knowledge) turned down a request to lend her star power to an event for one of the karaoke charities, such as KOUGH Karaoke Opportunities for Unkempt Geeks and the Homeless, or ERK (Equal Rights for Karaokephiles). Many will recall that it was her sheer determination that brought together KK (Karaokeholic Konfidentialous) that has does so much to turn around the lives of karaoke addicts everywhere.

Gwenyth has appeared in two of my previous blogs. The first was for appearing in the greatest karaoke flick ever produced, Crusin'. Just recently, I published a blog where I quoted some bloviator who had the unmitigated audacity to say that Crusin' is a movie that only a karaoke fanatic could love.

Gwenyth finds her way to my blog a third time. My sources tell me that she will be appearing on Glee, which has been voted an Emmy in 2010 in the category "TV show that is most like karaoke in it's hokeyness, but which isn't quite as bad as American Idol". She will be singing the original words to Cee-Lo's recent hit song: "Forget You".