Pitchfork to Rufus: You’re No Judy Garland.

“Wainwright’s reedy tenor is no match for Garland’s
brassy vibrato, but, to his credit, he elegantly outdoes her on a
couple of the ballads…. Nothing is too corny for him: ‘When You’re
Smiling,’ ‘That’s
Entertainment,’ even a shit-eating ‘Swanee.’ He revels in the broader
than Broadway bravado, it seems such a central part of his persona, but
it’s often simply refined out of his records completely.”

We’d also hate to suggest that you have a to be a cock-loving fag to love Rufus, but we’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of Jake Gyllenhaal’s fanatical Rufus fandom, which has in the past even impelled him up onto the stage with the singer. 

Rufus himself has said that Jake “has become quite a friend” and this Judy concert was, of course, the show Jake Gyllenhaal went to with Reese Witherspoon
at the Hollywood Bowl this past fall. We can just see him, standing there awkwardly with his
beard, while ten thousand screaming Hollywood homosexualists sang along
to “That’s Entertainment,” hoping against hope that there could come a
day when he’d be able to proudly belt out the ditty right along with
them, for all the cameras and all the world to see.

(photo c/o Wet Dark & Wild)

Review: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Does Judy Live at Carnegie Hall (Pitchfork)
Interview with Rufus Wainwright (Delaware Online)

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