Singer/ Songwriters Burning Down the Closet

KEO NOZARI - "QUESTION OF MONOGAMY"

Every musical genre needs eye candy, and Keo fits the bill nicely in the gay music revolution. His song “Question of Monogamy” is …best seen rather than heard.

How does this word
Apply to you and me
This little word we
Call monogamy?
Is it silly to believe
We can only be attracted to each other?
With beauty everywhere
It’s so easy to desire
The touch of another

The message of the song gets a little lost in the nakedness of the music video, but sometimes a spoonful of beefcake helps the medicine go down.

Rating: Quality - 1, Outness - 4, Groundbreaking - 2

Final Score: 2.3

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - "THE MAKER MAKES"

At the age of 35, Rufus Wainwright has managed to become one of the elder statesmen of the queer music revolution. “The Maker Makes” is a heartbreaking ballad from Brokeback Mountain, and is made all the more effective by Rufus’s languid delivery.

One more chain I break
To get me closer to you
One more chain does the maker make
To keep me from bustin’ through
One more notch I scratch
To keep me thinkin’ of you
One more notch does the maker make
Upon my face so blue

The tone and sound of the song perfectly echoes the movie, that feeling of being so close, yet so far away.

Rating: Quality - 5, Outness - 2, Groundbreaking - 2

Final Score: 3