Beautiful Boy: Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright is fraught with juxtapositions.

For years, in both character and ego, the singer has presented himself as a melodramatic minstrel whose childlike naiveté and Wildean aesthetic seemed to lack symbiosis with the world in which he inhabited. At the same time, Wainwright mingled in the dredges of that same world, drowning in homosexual nightlife and pharmaceutical overindulgence; a confused out-of-control control freak whose musical ambitions and fans were, personality wise, his polar opposite…