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electricland ([personal profile] electricland) wrote2011-12-23 07:45 am

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? by Rufus Wainwright (Musical Advent Calendar, Day 23)

Listen here.

Another confession: in general I am not all that fond of Rufus Wainwright. He's very talented but I have a particular horror of whiny tenors. And yet... I quite like this. Go figure. Apparently this song played a fairly major part in his rise to fame thanks to this Gap commercial:



We sang this for choir last year, which was fun; harmonies crunchy enough to be interesting.

Obviously we are sort of out of sync again. When I made up this mix it was a general holiday-season mix and New Year's seemed an important part of that.

Took the day off. Today I have some last-minute shopping to do, and I MUST set up my poor tree! How about you?

Get the full musical Advent calendar here. | What is this?

[identity profile] raithen.livejournal.com 2011-12-24 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
my sister always had a particular horror of tenors, point blank ;)

[identity profile] electricland.livejournal.com 2011-12-24 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
oh dear, that must make life difficult!