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Eccentric pop auteur Rufus Wainwright is ready for his close-up

A A A Comments By Gilbert Garcia Thursday, Nov 15 2001

"It's incredibly frustrating," Wainwright says. "I mean, at the end of the day I've made a great record and I'm going to make a lot more great records, so I'm not worried about it. But in terms of what's sometimes allotted the primo attention, it's so generic and unimaginative that I think is not necessarily good for society these days. It just makes things boring.

"I don't know who's dictating all this stuff, it's very faceless and Big Brotherish. So I consider it, in a weird way, my duty to try to get on radio to try and relieve some of this dictatorship that's going on. But, whatever. I tend to be very dramatic."

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Wainwright is the spawn of singer songwriters Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle.

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