Comments on: Introducing Sufjan Stevens http://www.johndcorson.com/blog/2006/07/12/thats-soofyan-to-you/ Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Chase Abner http://www.johndcorson.com/blog/2006/07/12/thats-soofyan-to-you/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Chase Abner Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:23:17 +0000 http://www.johndcorson.com/blog/2006/07/12/thats-soofyan-to-you/#comment-36 There's no conspiracy. I simply spend entirely too much time on iTunes and on various music websites. And I read carefully. I read the article that you quoted from. I think Stephen Thomas Erlewine just wanted to be "that guy" who doesn't like Sufjan Stevens. Like it would somehow boost his music scholar street cred if he could piece together a mildly-intelligible critique of Sufjan's work. He completely misses the way Sufjan has mastered the craft of songwriting to a point where he can write things that hinge between the silly and the profound. Seriously, what is "adolescent" about "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." Maybe if Sufjan went by three names he would be cooler. Sufjan Thomas Stevens. There’s no conspiracy. I simply spend entirely too much time on iTunes and on various music websites. And I read carefully.

I read the article that you quoted from. I think Stephen Thomas Erlewine just wanted to be “that guy” who doesn’t like Sufjan Stevens. Like it would somehow boost his music scholar street cred if he could piece together a mildly-intelligible critique of Sufjan’s work. He completely misses the way Sufjan has mastered the craft of songwriting to a point where he can write things that hinge between the silly and the profound. Seriously, what is “adolescent” about “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” Maybe if Sufjan went by three names he would be cooler. Sufjan Thomas Stevens.

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