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"FacebookPinterest\n\n If you've been waiting for Rufus Wainwright to ditch the cabaret and get back to Poses-era pop, your wish has finally been granted: For his seventh album, Out of the Game, he goes the full Laurel Canyon, channeling classic '70s singer-songwriter pop with his peerless introspective wit. Wainwright's unlikely secret weapon, though, is producer-DJ Mark Ronson, best known for adding the vintage scuff to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. From the first track, the duo's chemistry pours out of the speakers. Wainwright and Ronson spoke to GQ about their unlikely partnership.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: Tell me how you got together.\n\n Rufus Wainwright: We are both good friends with Sean Lennon\u2014I'd heard about Mark through him. I was curious who this masked man was, and once I started hearing his albums, I was more intrigued\u2014and in the end, not at all disappointed.\n\n Mark Ronson: I knew about him since his first record, from all the acclaim, but I was only listening to rap and going to hip-hop clubs. I saw him on TV\u2014Glastonbury in 2007, doing Judy Garland in full-on Judy gear to 50,000 Brits\u2014and it was incredible. We finally met, and he said he wanted to work with me. It was much scarier than some unknown band coming to you with all their egos\u2014\n\n Rufus Wainwright: And I have a pretty famous ego. [laughs] \n\nGQ: What was your first impression of Mark?\n\n Mark Ronson: Are you saying you do impressions of me?\n\n Rufus Wainwright: I do depressions of you, actually. I first met him during his bowl-cut period, at a photo shoot. Then I went to a party at the U.N. with Bijou Phillips and he was the DJ, and I thought, \"What is a 35-year-old person doing here?\" Blame it on the U.N., as usual.\n\nGQ: You guys are a surprising pair.\n\n Rufus Wainwright: Aside from artistic reasons and just plain fun, I want to sell some records. My mother had died and I had just made a very dark, dark album [Songs for Lulu], and while it wasn't fun, it was satisfying. Mark knew we needed to open things up a bit. Not like anyone was encouraging me to go make another depressing record.\n\nGQ: Was there a specific moment when you knew this was going to work?\n\n Rufus Wainwright: We went out one night to blow off some steam, and we took out a razor blade and opened up our wrists and pressed them together\u2014\n\n Mark Ronson: I thought we were friends before that! There was also the night we were just doing guitar overdubs, and Rufus gets a call and says, \"Does anyone want to go to the duchess of Austria's yacht for a little party?\"\n\n Rufus Wainwright: It was a nice \"Let's have fun in New York\" feeling, like when we lived there when we were younger."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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