‘I have a sense of urgency’: Sufjan Stevens wakes from the American dream – The Guardian

The Oscars were an ordeal for Sufjan Stevens. Honestly, one of the most traumatising experiences of my entire life, the songwriter half-laughs, half-groans. The event was, he says, a horrifying Scientology end-of-year prom representative of everything I hate about America and popular culture.
He had never paid much attention to them before being nominated in 2018. Mystery of Love his bittersweet folk ballad, written for Luca Guadagninos Call Me By Your Name was up for best original song and Ste…

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