Rufus Wainwright - The Art Teacher

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Rufus Wainwright - The Art Teacher - 2004 12 16

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Күн бұрын

Live promotion of Want Two LP

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@danabanana2981 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could tell Rufus how much this song has moved me but I truly am at a loss for words. His brilliance hasn’t just moved me, but it has deeply disturbed me. I feel I will never be the same after hearing this song. Absolutely out of this world

@AlanHope2013 3 жыл бұрын

Would you want to be the same though? You just listened to four minutes of greatness.

@StreetWorksMedia 3 жыл бұрын

I met him at durham theater in 2012 along with some other folks who came backstage / the parking lot exit. he signed our set lists and took photos with us, was a really fun time.

@dinahdonovon Жыл бұрын

Agreed... This is my favourite Rufus song though....

@meghanyoung3273 Жыл бұрын

It’s just so brilliant

@milliesaysokboomer 2 жыл бұрын

We all have that one love, we never dared confess to, secretly dreaming of them even when in the theatres, and in our fantasies every one of them it is with this one love. They might be our first crush might be our third or fourth but there is something so pure about this one ideal, this one muse that will always be in our heads, hearts, souls. We never marry them, we marry someone not a little bit like them, and sometimes we tell this husband/ wife about this one secret love, but we play down how much they mean to us... I saw my ‘art teacher’ at the airport. Sometimes I wonder if it was an illusion, because I only saw her for a second and when I ad the courage to look again I saw her family but she was gone. Here’s to you mystery woman I dedicate this song to you.

@patriciablack4458 Жыл бұрын

You’re exactly right. My art teacher love died much too young.

@BBoydgirl1 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. This is my favorite version. Will always hold a special place in my heart!

@bjennings02 3 жыл бұрын

A genre all his own, one of the best to ever do it.

@tinymicrowhale5193 3 жыл бұрын

Straight guy here loving Rufus’s music.

@meghanyoung3273 Жыл бұрын

Preach!!!!!❤Yessssss

@angel72987 3 жыл бұрын

he has the best faces while he sings. he looks so graceful and sad

@shelleymcphee1275 7 жыл бұрын

I cannot get enough of this guy 😍😍😍😍

@paticalamaro 6 жыл бұрын

the lyrics of this song though . 😍

@Herr2Cents 3 жыл бұрын

I love his subject and I love to listen to this as I walk the hands halls if the MFA in Boston. Miles Davis too!

@patmercer8591 3 жыл бұрын

@@Herr2Cents Can you translate your comment into proper English?

@angel72987 3 жыл бұрын

@@patmercer8591 I love the subject of this song and I love to listen to it as I walk the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I also like to listen to Miles Davis while i do this.

@americanmouthh 2 жыл бұрын

@@patmercer8591 you totally understood what they were talking about, you just decided to be an asshole

@claumouz 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing singer, songwriter, everything! This song is a work of art

@williamgamble2783 3 жыл бұрын

Love from your Art Teacher! Love, Will Gamble

@jflo405 7 жыл бұрын

One of the best songwriters ever! Thanks for the upload.

@Rob-ys6ot Жыл бұрын

Wow! Want Two was on perma-repeat in my house for years. Watching this almost bought me to tears! Thank you.

@eivettelopez625 7 жыл бұрын

love this song!💙💙

@daviddeclemente1335 3 жыл бұрын

To my art teacher. Love Rufus

@williamgamble2783 2 жыл бұрын

It’s me here not David .

@the_musiccellar 3 жыл бұрын

Love this man and this song!!

@sodai_gomiko 3 жыл бұрын

There I was in uniform Looking at the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then He was not that much older than I was He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum He asked us what our favorite work of art was, But never could I tell it was him Oh, I wish I could tell him -- Oh, I wish I could have told him I looked at the Rubens and Rembrandts I liked the John Singer Sargents He told me he liked Turner Never have I turned since then No, never have I turned to any other man All this having been said, I married an executive company head All this having been done, a Turner - I own one Here I am in this uniformish, pant-suit sort of thing, Thinking of the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then No, never have I loved any other man

@Andyxom 2 жыл бұрын

Truly it's a huge huge masterpiece in all the time!

@freehammerskateboarding488 3 ай бұрын

So underrated. Always sounds great but rarely understood.

@tabascocat5102 Жыл бұрын

Totally beautiful. Thanks for sharing this to me D. Reminds me of 'I Saw the Dead' by The Villagers, but this was first

@richiebap1 6 ай бұрын

Love it

@meghanyoung3273 Жыл бұрын

Extreme talent. My favourite

@mayad4665 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites

@christinopessoadossantosfi9866 6 жыл бұрын

Ativista e militante gay, Rufus deve ser respeitado pelo seu trabalho como artista. Essa música é linda e deve ser admirada sem preconceito.

@AlanHope2013 3 жыл бұрын

It's a song. People should listen to it as a song, and a story. Knowing he's gay adds another dimension, but it's not necessary to know that to listen to and understand the song.

@relaskra 2 жыл бұрын

This song makes me cry thinking about how pointless and empty I feel working as an excel jockey because I’m too cautious and cowardly for anything else

@Mike_Anonymous 2 жыл бұрын

Hey. What's stopping you from doing something that satisfies you?

@relaskra 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mike_Anonymous I do extremely poorly in college environments and especially anything online and most alternate paths people with my degree take are even less appealing. And then I’d almost certainly be taking a pay cut if I just dropped into something else and between being unable to live with other people and inflation, that’s even worse. So I’m more or less stuck just existing in a field I’m wildly dispassionate about.

@lilacheaven222 Жыл бұрын

@@relaskra I feel exactly the same. I've been listening to this song for weeks and crying non stop.

@OrangeBunt Жыл бұрын

Guys never give up no matter what you are better than this

@laurencelebacq4294 3 жыл бұрын

❤

@paulmccartneyadorrer 2 жыл бұрын

So underrated 🥺💔❤️‍🔥 Also, one of my bday twins (7/22) ✨

@myhornisfrench 4 жыл бұрын

Is this the version that's on the album? Minus the addition of the French horn?

@saviocesar8648 3 жыл бұрын

Minus release the stars.

@j.adanherrera1800 3 жыл бұрын

Yes Exactly, its on the Want Two album.

@lyndsayshipley7899 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you’re playing a horn in your pic with this question. 😂 Not being snarky, just thought it was funny!

@drewfinn2 2 жыл бұрын

it’s funny that I can hear the French Horn in the harmonics of the piano 3rds and 6ths …hmmm and I wonder if the French Horn is played by James

@AlanHope2013 3 жыл бұрын

Personally, I don't even the wife of an executive company head could afford a Turner. The last one sold for $54 million in 2014. Maybe if you're Mrs Bezos or Mrs Gates, trapped in pant-suits and a loveless marriage.

@reedt2413 3 жыл бұрын

I think you make a good point. There are a few ways for me to be a nitpicker here. Perhaps the song is framed in the past when the outrageous prices we see today were not as commonplace. Or, it could be a lesser known piece that holds less value. Sotheby’s sold a Turner for ~$10m a few years back. There are hundreds in private collections that could be swapped or traded or sold for more comely prices. You would have to be mighty rice no less.

@reedt2413 3 жыл бұрын

Rich*

@bm4114 3 жыл бұрын

Boy you all have a real taste for poetry. That’s evident in all this math you’re doing. Silly me I was noticing the disturbing harmony, an unexpected augmented chord, on the line about owning a turner. I’m also, thinking about how a turner looks. So often moody and brooding. That says something about the art teacher. And when she finds herself in a position to own a piece of art, she chooses a turner, and even if her husband did pay 54million for it, it would never be enough to give her the thing she really longs for. That’s the poetry. Y’all over here speculating whether this fictional woman has that kind of money. Stop the world I want to get off.

@angel72987 3 жыл бұрын

@@bm4114

@bm4114 3 жыл бұрын

@@angel72987 ❤️. I got up my courage and took the train into nyc to got to the met museum yesterday by myself. I’d never been, and it’s the same museum he’s referring to in this song. I don’t know if you been, but it’s huge and by the time closing came I hadn’t found the Rembrandts or the john singer sargents. I did see a number of reubens, but alas I never found the gallery with the Turners. Of course I thought of this song all day and it almost seems right that I still haven’t seen a Turner in person.