If you know anything about the upcoming film Country Strong, it’s probably that Gwyneth Paltrow stars and that Gwyneth Paltrow sings country songs and that Gwyneth Paltrow sang at the Country Music Awards and that Gwyneth Paltrow was on Glee and that Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to buy this $6,000 umbrella with a handle crafted from the wood of Noah’s Ark. But it turns out that other people are in Country Strong, including Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Hedlund plays a country singer on the rise who teams up with Paltrow, and I’m sure they go on some kind of awesome journey of self discovery, giant belt buckles, spitting chaw, and domestic violence, but the real story here is Leighton Meester and how she should date me. Moviefone posted an exclusive clip of Meester and Hedlund singing a duet for Country Strong, and while I am not much of a country fan – I once pretended to like Garth Brooks for a handy on a hay ride – I can appreciate Meester’s talents, but mainly that she makes me want to be a better person and do things like volunteer at orphanages and pay my taxes.

Rootin’ tootin’ yeehaw jamboree after the jump, pardners…

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I don’t know about you, but when I read about the inspirational kabbalah beauty creams and decorative botox clutches in Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop.com newsletter, the first impression I get of her is “wide eyed dreamer that just rolled in off a dusty midwest bus.”  In fact, I think her and the Coldplay guy were John Cougar’s inspiration for “Jack and Diane.”

Anyway, as you may have already guessed, this is the music video for the song “Country Strong”, from Gwyneth Paltrow’s upcoming film, Country Strong, which opens nationwide on January 7th.  No word on whether she has plans to pursue a country singing career after this, but it’s pretty hilarious that Hollywood expects the heartland to buy Gwyneth Paltrow as a country gal.  Haha, just kidding, of course. They think pro wrestling is real. You throw on a cowboy hat and get their toes tapping, these dung punters’ll believe anything you tell ‘em. A junior college chick once let me get to third base during a Razorbacks game after I convinced her I was an Earnhardt. Hell, look at Kenny Chesney.  I’m pretty sure that guy went to a performing arts high school in Berkeley.

Boxcar Gwynnie

Oh snap, we just got punk’d! You got us good, Country Strong casting director!  Haha, “here’s Gwyneth Paltrow as a hard-drinkin’ country singer.  And oh look, here comes her husband, Lorenzo Lamas, distinguished Cambridge professor of mathematics.” Hilarious! “For my next act, I shall put an afro wig on a giraffe!”  Man, it doesn’t get much better than thi– HOLY SH*T, IS SHE RIDING THE RAILS LIKE A HOBO??

SING US A SONG, BOXCAR GWYNNIE!  “All’s ah needs is a tin a beans, the open road, and this $75 cake knife I bought on Goop.com.”

Also, Tim McGraw turned out to have quite the film career.  First he helps teach black kids to play football, now he learns an ole washed-up cuntry sanger how to love again.  “The first time ah heard you sang, ah thought that must be whut angels sound lahke.”  REALLY?  Jesus, that’s bad. That line’s so terrible it could almost be a Coldplay lyric.

[via Videogum]