Touching Tribute To Pavarotti In Today’s Crikey Mail Out!

By Jess McGuire on September 7, 2007 at 1:48 PM

Seventeen thousand thumbs up, followed by a gentle self-harming session whilst listening to Dashboard Confessional, to Crikey.com.au for the stunningly and wonderfully emo tribute to recently deceased opera star Luciano Pavarotti that opens today’s newsletter.

Luciano Pavarotti is dead. Why does this resonate? Because the life of Pavarotti is an allegory for our time, our decadent decline made flesh.

Here was a man blessed by talent, art and beauty who was consumed by vanity and the dumb blandishments of vapid celebrity. A man gifted with an abundant natural resource – a larynx touched by God he thought – a creature of incalculable, classical, learned beauty that ended up stuffing itself with lard and singing duets with Bono.

This is our age on legs: cancer laden, caked in hair dye, fake tan and kohl, still sort of singing. Then dead. RIP.

“Then dead. RIP.”

BRILLIANT.

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