trick question
“Is there anything Rufus Wainwright can’t do?”
Though, to be fair, une doyenne d’un certain age like La Cieca should be much nicer to any whippersnapper who has the grace to say things like, “she’s in her 50s. If you consider that aging or not, I don’t know. Some people told me that 50 is the new 30. No, 50 is the new 20. Therefore, dead is the new 50!” [Pop Candy]
He was interviewed in yesterday’s USA Today about his new opera. I haven’t read it yet.
I feel like he’s wearing that get-up specifically to give homosexuals an opportunity to ask him “what are you done up for, the seeing eye?” (A line I have never quite understood, it must be said.)
Love Rufus’ love of the lyric muse.
Do not love his adenoidal intonation.
Give him a break — this is a Michael Jackson world and at the very least he gets the IDEA of operatic singing talked about in venues where it normally is considered anatheme.
I’m in mild agreement with Camille re: his bringing opera to people who normally wouldn’t consider listening to it, except that I don’t believe his audience is going to listen to any opera other than his. He’s made no secret of his operaphilia over the years, and it’s made no difference so far, in much the way that his Judy concert didn’t really make Garland fans out of people who weren’t in the first place.
DiDonato’s performance with a broken leg would probably strike more people as an interesting story about opera. Wainwright’s status as an important artist is more a figment of critic’s fond fantasies than it is a reality I’m afraid (Elton John’s wet dreams notwithstanding), as is the case with a lot of “cult” artists in pop music.
I honestly don’t know who this man is! I like the new layout.
Said it once, say it again. This guy would make a great sex slave: he’s got the pouty lips, the chest and the attitude.
Send him to me. By the time I’m done he will no longer want to bullshit his way through music.
RW is a moron, musically speaking. Furthermore, he is not that cute, and looks rather sick in that photo (sex slave–YUCH; he looks as though he might throw up on you, if you are into that).
As I have written before, his “Judy” concert was really bad. I can’t imagine that anyone was converted to Judy by his groaning. That he had the nerve and utter ignorance to put on a show like is appalling.
His personality is goofy and silly, not charming and carefree as he appears to see himself.
So, he likes opera, BFD–so do millions of other queens!
Puh-leeeze!!!
” Is there anything Rufus Wainwright cannot do?” was the question.
Well take a good tug of himself and find reality somewhere. All this ‘gonna do this, gonna do that’ is just to hype up his own empty bullshit.
Best performance ‘art’ he could do is for someone to drop 10 cents on the street and tell him to pick it up, while he gets what he’s worth ‘from a desperate bystander needing a quickie’.
Throw the candy away, keep the wrapper.
No, on second thought, throw that away as well.