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?
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:
Click to viewWe 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?