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Rufus Wainwright Music Analysis
I decided to listen to this piece of music by Rufus Wainwright. At the start of the recording is very smooth and slow as if to build of the tension for the middle part of the song. He starts singing very slow, very meaningful as if he's putting all of his heart and soul into it. Half way through the song the tension rising even more as his voice volume increases when the most dramatic parts of the song arise. He starts sound as if he's almost screaming for the dramatization he is putting into the recording. Throughout the song he is constantly making the song sound as dramatic as possible. The recording was very professionally done and had to song errors, fussy parts or skips throughout the whole track. Rufus doesn't perform these concerts

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