“Grey Gardens” is the seventh track on Rufus Wainwright’s sophomore album, Poses. The baroque pop song takes its title and much of its impressionistic imagery from the iconic Maysles Brothers documentary Grey Gardens. (When it’s not invoking the titular film, the song is referencing Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice.) Wainwright was introduced to the documentary by Justin Vivian Bond in the late ‘90s. “I think it coincided,” Wainwright said

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