Had I been consulted, I'd have recommended he downplay the gay
thing - which he emphasises to excess, all the time, and interminably - and
just deliver the music.
?!? Are you serious? I mean, you must be joking right? I can't even
imagine calling up an artist, who put out an album as great as
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as. I think he's a fucking hero for coming out guns a'blazing. Would you
suggest that James Brown be less Black, or Oasis less British? Silly.
Not less British, but definitely less asshole'ish.
In out'ingly yours,
JC
NP: Pernice Brothers -
In a recent post, I suggested that the commercial failure of Rufus
Wainwright's excellent record was due, in part, because "Rufus pushes the
"gay thing" to excess, and I'm convinced it's this that has managed to turn
off the straight audience
completely. Had I been consulted, I'd have
I must say that I found Neil's final line - "Would you suggest that James
Brown be less Black, or Oasis less British?" - rather offensive. Of course
not; James Brown IS black, Oasis IS British. And while Rufus is indeed
gay, and that sensibility informs his music, I still think he and his music
is all about.
Among the initial set of "Find 'Em First" artists are Wainwright, Kelly
Willis and Mary Cutrufello. For Wainwright, the individual copy reads:
Music is definitely in the blood for Rufus Wainwright, 21-year-old son
of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Wainw
I've been following this thread and trying to keep a lid on my temper,
since I know that Richard was addressing career strategy and didn't
mean his comments to sound the way they did - personally, when I hear
someone say "flaunting it" and "shoving it in people's faces,"
Carl:
Ultimately, I think opera is much more alienating to a pop audience
than homosexuality is to college students. But if Rufus keeps
This is very true At this point in time, with all the "out"
performers there are, etc., I really wonder whether being out is a career
I'd say that Rufus Wainwright's debut has only sold 35,000 copies so far
because it doesn't sound like anything else on the market right now. We
filed the cd in rock at Vintage Vinyl but I'd be hard pressed to name an
album that rocks less. Folk/Country/Americana is clearly the wrong place,
I don't know whether this is the place and time to get into this, but I
noted Carl's Globe and Mail piece on Rufus Wainwright, who I first met when
he was 14 or 15. I also noted, either on this list or somewhere else, that
total sales on his album in the US had now crawled up to 35,000
