The 11 songs Gwyneth Paltrow couldn’t live without: “I get chills”
One of the most heartening things that can happen in life is two people meeting who, without any other reasons present other than their souls connecting and finding everything about each other attractive, both physically and emotionally, decide to come together without any preconceptions or dependence on material wealth.
And that’s just what happened when the multi-millionaire actor Gwyneth Paltrow met the multi-millionaire singer of an internationally famous pop-rock band, Chris Martin.
Even if Martin had been a checkout worker at Sainsbury’s, Paltrow would no doubt still have fallen for him, just as if she had been a call centre operative at Go Compare, Martin would have still fallen head over heels for her, it was just pure coincidence that neither of them were anything of the sort.
They met in 2002 in the everyday surroundings that we all might find ourselves in now and then, backstage at a celebrity-packed Coldplay concert in New York. It’s quite possible neither of them even knew who the other were, despite both being monumentally rich and famous, and so that never came into the equation. It was just a tale of true love, nothing more, and the two were wed the very next year, and because none of the money or fame stuff made any difference, they lived happily ever aft… oh wait, no, they didn’t.
Regardless, apparently the Coldplay song ‘Everything’s Not Lost’ was a big factor in why she liked the band so much, so fair play to her, but it’s just one of almost a dozen that Paltrow told Sirius XM she loves the most, picking out a mix of hip hop, indie, 1990s pop and ‘70s FM rock.
Of the Coldplay tune, she said: “He wrote this song before I met him, and I think another reason it’s sad for me is my father had just died when this album came out, and we used to listen to it kind of on repeat. This album (Parachutes) was kind of getting my brother and I through that death.”
Even if Martin had been hideously unattractive and had no money, she would still have married him, just because he wrote that song, which is genuinely inspirational. Elsewhere, Paltrow picked out the likes of Journey’s ‘Lights’ from 1978, CSS’s ‘Let’s make love and listen to Death From Above’ and Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Heart in New York’.
She reserved special praise for Beyoncé, who is a close personal friend (and she would have been her friend even if she wasn’t astonishingly rich and maybe the most famous woman on earth) and her song ‘Drunk in Love’, of which she raved: “I get chills from this song. It just makes you want to move.”
Paltrow is also a big fan of pop favourite Taylor Swift as well, although none of her songs make the cut. Paltrow, who has appeared nude in eleven different movies, said: “She’s very savvy, she keeps her clothes on, she writes her music, she has good values. She’s a good girl.”
Other tunes on Paltrow’s list included the epic No Cars Go by Arcade Fire, which is admittedly a massive tune, plus early ‘90s cut Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry, which we all know best from the title music of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Minute Dinners, and Terrence Trent D’Arby’s Wishing Well, which was a big hit back in 1987.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s favourite 11 songs:
- Coldplay – ‘Everything’s Not Lost’
- Terence Trent D’Arby – ‘Wishing Well’
- Journey – ‘Lights’
- Beyonce – ‘Drunk in Love’
- Simon and Garfunkel – ‘A Heart in New York’
- Jay-Z and Kanye West – ‘Made in America’
- CSS – ‘Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above’
- Alicia Keys – ‘Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart’
- Bonnie Raitt – ‘Angel From Montgomery’
- Neneh Cherry – ‘Buffalo Stance’
- N.W.A. – ‘Gangsta Gangsta’
