“Is Conscious Uncoupling Anything Like Really Terrific Opera?”

GROSS: O.K., so what it sounds like is that conscious uncoupling is more comparable to free jazz than, say, bebop or swing. That’s very interesting. Is conscious uncoupling anything like really terrific opera?

PALTROW: No, Terry. In fact, I would say that conscious uncoupling is kind of the opposite, because really terrific opera is very dramatic, and conscious uncoupling …

GROSS: Is what? Poorly paced? Overtly experimental? Badly staged?

PALTROW: I was going to say that it seeks to be very undramatic.

Our friend/mad genius Sarah Miller is at The New Yorker, imagining a Terry Gross and Gwyneth Paltrow breakdown of the latter’s conscious uncoupling from Chris Martin. I think you might be on to something, Sarah. [TNY]