Rufus Wainwright - Want Two [Bonus Tracks & DVD]

Picking up where Want One left off, Rufus Wainwright's Want Two is a deeply introspective, sometimes kinky and often personally critical set of mini-operettas that ruminate on his various relationships, drug abuse, and image in the media. Metaphorically liturgical and often classical in sound, Want Two touches on such inner-related themes as love, loneliness, sin and sacrifice. It's more focused than Want One and as such packs more of wallop both musically and emotionally. On the cover of Want One, Wainwright appeared as a chivalrous knight in armor bringing to mind the conquering crusader -- Sir Gawain the gay knightNULL Conversely, on Want Two he appears as a dark-haired maiden -- Sleeping Beauty or the suicidal OpheliaNULL The imagery not only speaks to the campy and loaded cliché of the male and female, yin and yang drive of the gay male persona, but more importantly how one's personal desires are often sacrificed because of public successes. Read More