For you Rufus detractors out there, and Allison and Wally specifically but I won't name names. Quotes From the new Audiophile review of Poses: Rufus Wainwright makes pop music that sounds as if it is of, by, and for another era - as if his competition weren't Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and Destiny's Child, but Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and George and Ira Gershwin. No one but Wainwright is making such brave and uncompromising music these days, which is why he's really only in competition with himself. And he is winning. Jerry
