#TO BE ALONE WITH YOU SUFJAN SERIAL#
He made characters with epic flaws, such as the serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr., into human beings worthy of concern. Stevens has always been a deeply empathetic songwriter. Carrie & Lowell is an attempt to learn to grieve Stevens' mother, Carrie, died in 2012, and this album is both a tribute to her and an honest exploration of what it means to be almost 40 and finding yourself buried in grief. Stevens wrote two songs for the film, "Mysteries Of Love" and "Visions Of Gideon", as well as a re-arranged version of "Futile Devices", the Age Of Adz opener oft-referenced on Predatory Wasp Posting.On Carrie & Lowell - his seventh studio album, due out Tuesday, March 31 - the story he's telling comes from two years of intense pain and loss. Soon, Stevens's music will be riper for reading, with the pending release of Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of André Aciman's queer coming-of-age novel. But it's through against the grain readings where queer people, historically, have had to find themselves. Of course, we could be reading something which is simply not there. Whether intended, there's room within that expansiveness for LGBTIQ audiences to imagine themselves within Stevens's landscape without contortion. Is this song gay or just about his dead mum? Oh, but also about finding God through nature? It's hard to say.
Now all of me thinks less of you (All of me wants all of you)" Revelation may come true (All of me wants all of you) Landscape changed my point of view (All of me wants all of you) Saw myself on Spencer's Butte (All of me wants all of you) You can hear it loudest in the lack of distinction between Sufjans's use of "his": does he mean God, or someone else? While there's plenty of biblical metaphors and allusions in his music, Stevens prefers an ambiguous, esoteric expression of his beliefs, avoiding the didacticism that turns most non-believers off faith focused music. Stevens's relationship to Christianity is one of personal connection strained under institutional religion. Inadvertently or not, Stevens's expression of Christianity mirrors the way many of his listeners experience their sexuality: in a confluence of joy, shame and renewal. Whether Stevens's songs are 'gay or about God' is a trick question. It's that a lot of the things he sings about are really identifiable to LGBTI people, and particularly LGBTI people that have grown up religious and that resulting guilt." "I don't really think it's about what sexual identity has," says Mitchell. The state of my heart, he was my best friend…"ĭespite the autobiographical elements at play, the group largely avoids mining Stevens's personal history for clues. "Touching his back with my hand I kiss him… It's named after one of Stevens's more obviously queer-leaning songs, "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!", about a childhood friend from camp: In the words of member Darcey Mitchell, the group's "less shit-posting and more of a community": alongside the memes, there's earnest dissection of Stevens's music and, more generally, queer issues.
There's even an off-shoot group for LGBTIQ Stevens fans, *Palisades Posting.
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