‘She’s got great vocal control and range,’ Cee Lo said of the actress, with whom he recorded a duet version of his hit song on Monday. By Gil Kaufman Cee Lo and Gwyneth Paltrow Photo: Getty Images Cee Lo Green has worked with plenty of professional musicians and he knows a thing or two about recording hit songs. But the Gnarls Barkley frontman and solo star said even he was impressed with the vocal skills he heard on Monday when “Country Strong” actress Gwyneth Paltrow joined him in a New York studio to record a new version of his Grammy-nominated smash, “F— You.” “We already went into the studio together to record a special rendition of ‘Forget You,’ ” he said on Wednesday of the sanitized version of his viral hit. “I started off the new year [in] a very special way and that’s recording with Miss Gwyneth.” The Lady Killer singer had nothing but kind things to say about the budding recording star, describing her as “very pleasant,” “very pretty” and a “consummate professional.” After some small talk to break the ice during their first meeting, Cee Lo said he shared some laughs with Paltrow before they got down to the work at hand. Ever the gentleman, he let the lady go first and, well, she killed it. “In about four takes, impressively, she nailed it,” he said, noting that Paltrow was very familiar with the song thanks to the clean rendition she did of it for “Glee” in November , which he highly praised at the time. With the song’s producers, the Bruno Mars-led Smeezingtons, on hand to handle the remake, Cee Lo said there initially was a concern about the actress being able to sing in the Goodie Mob member’s range. “She got in and she sang the original key the song was recorded in, so there wasn’t much we had to change,” he maintained. The Smeezingtons are working on remixing and remastering the session as we speak. Cee Lo hasn’t heard the final version yet, but he’s hoping to be pleasantly surprised by the finished product. While the track was originally recorded for one voice, he said they were able to turn it into a duet by going “back and forth and [doing] our little Sonny and Cher kind of thing.” Paltrow has reported that she watched hours of performances by her pal Beyonc
