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Sufjan Stevens Born July 1 1975 Is An American Musician Songwriter And Multi-Instrumentalist From Petoskey Michigan. He Is Known For His Lyrically Focused And Instrumentally Rich Songs That Often Relate To Faith And Family. He Has Enjoyed Wide Critical Success In The United States. He Is Considered Part Of The Folk Revival Through Indie Pop But His Influences Are Very Broad Including Experimental Electronic Music The Jazz Of Vince Guaraldi And The Academic Minimalism Of Steve Reich And Philip Glass. Though Stevens Had Announced Plans To Make An Album For Each Of The 50 U.S. States Beginning The Series With The Albums 'Michigan' 2003 And 'Illinois' 2005 He Has Since Then Somewhat Retracted The Statement. "Sufjan Stevens Is Not Going To Write A Record For Each Of The 50 States After All" Was The Original Text Included On The Online Liner Notes For 'Mews Too An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation' A Disc Released On February 7 2006. This Statement Was Possibly Included As A Joke As The Text Has Since Been Removed And The Current Liner Notes Related To Sufjan Stevens Reads "Sufjan Stevens Can Fold A Fitted-Sheet He Once Worked As A Professional Folder In A Commercial Laundromat ." Background Stevens Was Born In Detroit Michigan And Grew Up In The City Of Petoskey In That Same State. He Attended Hope College On The West Coast Of Michigan. The Name Sufjan Is An Arabic/Persian Name That Predates Islam And Most Famously Belonged To Abu Sufyan A Figure From Early Islamic History. It Has Been Mentioned In The Press That The Name Was Given To Stevens By The Leader Of Subud A Spiritual Sect To Which His Parents Belonged When He Was Born. Stevens Has Stated That The Name Is Of Armenian Origin And Means "comes With A Sword " And That It Is "a Charming Militaristic Muslim Name." In Fact The Name Is Not Armenian And Armenia Is A Predominantly Christian Country.
Sufjan Is Also The Plural Form Of Sufi In Persian . Sufi Is A Practitioner Of Sufism .This Word Is Frequently Used In The Old Persian Literature Specially Sufi Poetry . His Brother Marathonist Marzuki Stevens Has Trained To Compete In The 2008 Olympic Trials And Has Played On Two Of Sufjan's Albums. A Multi-Instrumentalist Stevens Plays The Banjo Guitar Drums And Several Other Instruments Often Playing All Of These On His Albums Through The Use Of Multi-Tracking. While In School He Studied The Oboe And English Horn Which He Also Plays On His Albums He Is One Of The Few Musicians In Popular Music To Use These Instruments. Career Sufjan Stevens Began His Musical Career As A Member Of Marzuki A Folk-Rock Band From Holland Michigan. He Also Played And Continues To Play Various Instruments For Danielson Famile. While In School At Hope College Stevens Wrote And Recorded His Debut Solo Album A Sun Came Which He Released On Asthmatic Kitty Records A Record Label He Founded With His Step-Father In 1999. He Later Moved To New York City Where He Was Enrolled In A Writing Program At The New School For Social Research. While In New York Stevens Composed And Recorded The Music For His Second Album Enjoy Your Rabbit A Song Cycle Based Around The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac That Ventured Into Electronica. Stevens Followed This With The First Of His 50 States Albums A Collection Of Folk Songs And Instrumentals Inspired By His Home State Of Michigan. The Result The Expansive Michigan Included Odes To Cities Including Detroit And Flint The Upper Peninsula And Vacation Areas Such As Tahquamenon Falls. Melded Into The Scenic Descriptions And Characters Are His Own Declarations Of Faith In God Sorrow Love And The Regeneration Of Michigan. Following The Release Of Michigan Stevens Compiled A Collection Of Songs Recorded Previously Into A Side Project The Christian Folk Album Seven Swans Which Was Released In March 2004. Next He Released The Second In The 50 States Projects Entitled Come On Feel The Illinoise!. Among The Subjects Explored On Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are The Cities Of Chicago Decatur And Jacksonville The Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy The Poet Carl Sandburg And Mississippi Palisades State Park. He Has Contributed To The Music Of Denison Witmer Soul Junk Half-Handed Cloud Brother Danielson Danielson Famile Serena Maneesh Castanets And Liz Janes. He Played Piano On For Fellow Brooklyn Musician's The National's Album 2007 Boxer. A Cover Of "She Is" Is Included On The Album Dream Brother Released In The United States On January 31 2006. Sufjan Contributed A Lot To The Sound Of The 2001 Liz Janes Album Done Gone Fire As He Engineered Recorded Produced And Arranged It As Well As Playing Many Addition Instruments. Sufjan Recently Recorded With Rosie Thomas And Denison Witmer Playing Banjo And Providing Vocals. It Is Unknown How This Record Will Be Released. In April 2006 Pitchfork Erroneously Announced That Stevens And Thomas Were Having A Baby Together But Were Forced To Print A Retraction. Witmer And Thomas Later Admitted It Was An April Fools' Prank. The Fifty States Project Beginning With Michigan Stevens Announced An Intent To Write An Album For Each Of The 50 U.S. States Although In Interviews He Wavers Between Utter Sincerity And Self-Deprecating Irony When Describing The Idea. Stevens Spent The Second Half Of 2004 Researching And Writing Material For The Second Of These Projects This Time Focusing His Efforts On Illinois. As With Michigan Stevens Used The State Of Illinois As A Leaping-Off Point For His More Personal Explorations Of Faith Family Love And Location. The Widely Acclaimed Illinois Was The Highest Rated Album Of 2005 On The Metacritic Review Aggregator Site Based On Glowing Reviews From Pitchfork The Onion A/V Club Spin Billboard Entertainment Weekly Rolling Stone The New York Times And The Guardian. The 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards Awarded Stevens With The Album Of The Year Best Album Art/Packaging And Male Artist Of The Year. Pitchfork Media And Paste Magazine Named Come On Feel The Illinoise! As The Editors' Choice For Best Album Of 2005 And Stevens Received The 2005 Pantheon Prize Awarded To Albums Selling 500 000 Copies Or Fewer For Come On Feel The Illinoise!. In April Of 2006 Stevens Announced That 21 Pieces Of Music He Had Culled From The Come On Feel The Illinoise! Recording Sessions Would Be Incorporated Into A New Album Called The Avalanche. The Album Was Released On July 11 2006. While There Were Other Projects Rumored To Be Released Following 2005's Illinois By 2009 And His Live Album The BQE He Was Seemingly Finished With The Project Calling It "Such A Joke" And Accepting That The Project Was Too Massive And Too Cliché To Ever Reach An End. Religious Themes Many Of Stevens' Songs Have Religious And Spiritual Allusions But His Album Seven Swans Has The Most Direct Religious References. Stevens Has Expressed That He Is Christian But Does Not Overtly Advertise This Aspect Of Himself In His Music. Stevens Has Also Stated That He Does Not Try To Make Music "with A Message" Or Music For The Sake Of Preaching. "I Don't Think Music Media Is The Real Forum For Theological Discussions " Says Stevens. "I Think I've Said Things And Sung About Things That Probably Weren't Appropriate For This Kind Of Forum. And I Just Feel Like It's Not My Work Or My Place To Be Making Claims And Statements Because I Often Think It's Misunderstood." The Songs 'Abraham' 'Seven Swans' 'To Be Alone With You' 'We Won't Need Legs To Stand' And 'The Transfiguration' Directly Address Christianity On The Album Seven Swans. In 'Abraham' Sufjan Recounts The Old Testament Story In The Book Of Genesis When Abraham Ordered By God As A Test Of Faith Leads His Son Isaac Up A Mountain And Prepares To Kill Him As Commanded But Before God Sends An Angel To Intervene . The Lyrics Of 'The Transfiguration' Follow The Biblical Accounts Of Jesus' Transfiguration In Matthew 17 1-8 Mark 9 1-8 And Luke 9 28-36. Michigan And Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are Packed With Christian References And Metaphors. Michigan Contains "Sleeping Bear Sault Saint Marie" Which Implores "Oh Lamb Of God! Tell Us Your Perfect Design And Give Us The Rod" "Lamb Of God" Being A Biblical Name For Jesus Christ . The Song "Oh God Where Are You Now?" Asks God To "hold Me Now" To "save Somehow" Searching For God In The Midst Of Personal Turmoil. "There's No Other Man Who Could Save The Dead " The Song States. The Album Closer 'Vito's Ordination Song' Was Apparently Originally Written For Sufjan's Friend Vito Aiuto And Its Lyrics Allude Directly To Psalm 139 "I Always Knew You. In Your Mother's Arms I Have Called Your Name" "I've Made A Crown For You" . The Song Speaks Of "When The Bridegroom Comes" - The New Testament Speaks Of Jesus Christ As Being The Bridegroom And The Church His Bride Finally Being United Together At The End Of Time. Come On Feel The Illinoise! Features The Song 'Chicago' With Its Refrain Of "You Came To Take Us To Recreate Us" And 'Decatur' Has The Chorus Of "It's The Great I Am" "I Am" Being The Name The Lord Reveals Himself By To Moses In Exodus 3 14 . "Casimir Pulaski Day" Speaks Of "All The Glory That The Lord Has Made" In The Midst Of Personal Pain And Loss. "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" Has The Lyrics "Lamb Of God We Sound The Horn. Hallelujah!" One Instrumental Passage Has The Title Of "In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth". "The Seer's Tower" Speaks Of Emanuel "With His Sword With His Robe He Comes Dividing Man From Brothers" An Interesting Side Note Is That "Sufjan" Actually Means "comes With A Sword" . Indeed The Vast Majority Of Songs Of Come On Feel The Illinoise! Contain Lyric Lines Which Can Be Readily Identified As Having A Basis In Stevens' Faith In Christ. Sufjan's Second Electronic Album Enjoy Your Rabbit Contains A Song Cycle Based On Of The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac Culminating With The Song "Year Of Our Lord". Stevens Released The Original Christian-Themed Song "God'll Ne'er Let You Down" On The "To Spirit Back The Mews" Compilation On Asthmatic Kitty. The Officially Unreleased Christmas Albums Sufjan Stevens Made And Then Compiled Into Songs For Christmas Feature Suitably Christmas And Christian Themed Music Both Originals And Covers Of Hymns And Traditional Songs. Trivia On Snow Patrol's 2006 Album Eyes Open There Is A Reference To Sufjan And The Song "Chicago" In The Song "Hands Open" - "Put Sufjan Stevens On And We'll Play Your Favorite Song/"Chicago" Bursts To Life And Your Sweet Smile Remembers You." Sufjan Has Twice Been Featured On The FOX Television Show "The OC". "To Be Alone With You" And "For The Widows In Paradise For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti" Can Be Heard On Episodes 202 And 315 Respectively. Sufjan Stevens' Music Has Appeared Twice On The Showtime Dark Comedy "Weeds". "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" Appears On S1E02 Over The End Credits And "Holland" Appears Near The End Of S2E10. Two Of Sufjan's Songs Appear On The Soundtrack To "Little Miss Sunshine" "Chicago" And "No Man's Land" The Song "John Wayne Gacy Jr." Appears On The 3rd Season Of The Tv Show "Nip/Tuck". Several Songs Can Be Heard On The Movie "Driving Lessons" You Can Also Hear Snippets In Between CSI Shows On 5US In The TV Show "Austin City Limits" He Mentioned That When He Was A Kid He And His Best Friend Saw Something In The Sky Which They Couldn't Figure Out. They Thought It Was A Spaceship Or UFO First Then An Eagle Or A Dragon. Finally They Realized It Was A Giant Wasp. He Wrote The Song "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" About The Incident And Mentioned That The Reason They The Band All Have Wings On Stage Is To Overcome His Fear Of Flying Things. The Song "Redford For Yia-Yia & Pappou " Is Heard In The 2012 "World Of Red Bull" Television Commercial. He Is Quoted As Saying "selling Out Never Looked So Good." And "somebody Had To Pay For All Of That Christmas Confetti." Referring To His Recent Christmas Album And Supporting Tour. In 2017 Stevens Wrote Two Original Songs To Be Featured In The Gay Drama Film “Call Me By Your Name” Entitled “Mystery Of Love” And “Visions Of Gideon”. He Also Made A Reworked Version Of His Song “Futile Devices” Which Is Also Featured On The Soundtrack.
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“Predatory Wasp” Chronicles Sufjan’s Romantic Relationship With A Male Friend During A Methodist Summer Camp He Attended In His Youth. In A 2017 Interview With Salon He Described It As Being “an Awakening ” And Explained That It Happened When He Was In High School Around The Age Of 16. Stevens Alludes To This Same Relationship More Explicitly In “Venus” From "Planetarium". Gay People Often Struggle With Feeling “predatory” Around Their Straight Friends—a Phenomenon That Can Be Traced To Both The Sexualization Of Gay Experience In American Culture And The Strict Gender Division In The Rest Of Heterosexual Society The Same Division That Expects Coworkers Of Different Genders Not To Be Alone Together According To A Recent New York Times Survey It’s Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary Of Being Alone With The Opposite Sex So If You’re A Young Boy At A Methodist Summer Camp Struggling With Your New-Found Attraction To Your Best Friend Part Of The Thing You Also Have To Struggle With Is The Way Society Tell You That This Attraction Is A Corruption Of Your Friendship And “predatory”. This Is Also A Reflection Of The Way Same-Sex Relationships Are Considered “adult” Or Not Safe For Kids But Straight Crushes Are Seen As Normal For A Much Younger Age. Any Discussion Of The Lived Experience Of Gay People Is Seen As Sexual Or Taboo—something That Is Patently Absurd Especially When It’s About Young Kids With Crushes. This Happens To An Even Greater Extent With Lesbian Or Bi Women And People Of Color In The Gay Community As A Queer Middle-Schooler I Have A Problem With Media Representation So As It May Be Obvious The “predatory” Wasp Of The Palisades Is A Continuation Of The Wasp’s Use As An Extended Metaphor For The Narrator’s Feelings About His Friend And His Struggles With Them. In The 2015 Pitchfork Feature True Myth A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Gave The Following Response When Asked About Christianity "I Had This Childhood Fantasy Of Becoming A Priest Or A Preacher So I Would Read And Study The Bible And Then Make My Family Listen To Me Read A Passage From The New Testament Before Meals—and They Very Begrudgingly Accommodated That For A While. I Was Just Fascinated Some Of My Most Profound Spiritual And Sexual Experiences Were At A Methodist Summer Camp." Two Years Later He Was Interviewed By Salon For The Feature Sufjan Stevens Bryce Dessner And Nico Muhly On Making Space Music For A Hard Time On Earth Which Promoted Their Then-Upcoming Album "Planetarium". Moving On Tell Me About Methodist Summer Camp A Reference On “Venus” . Stevens Well That’s When I Had My First Sexual Experience. Muhly Is That Actually True? Stevens Yes. Muhly That’s Nasty. How Old? Stevens Laughs I’ve Never Been Asked That! Well Methodist Summer Camp. Stevens I Was Old Enough. I Was In High School. I Went To Many Different Summer Camps. And I Remember Going To Methodist Summer Camp And It’s When I First Learned That God Is Not Male. So We Would Sing These Classic Hymns — “Our God Is An Awesome God He Brings…” – And This Woman Would Always Stop Us And Be Like “Actually We Shouldn’t Use He Or She Pronouns. We Should Just Use ‘God.’” The Methodists Were Way Ahead Of Their Time. Stevens My Mind Was Blown. And The Phrase Was Everything “rocks.” “God Rocks.” And There Was A Lot Of Cigarette Smoking. Was It A Romantic Experience? Stevens Yeah It Was An Awakening. Laughs I Was Probably 16. Emphasis Added He’s Also Relayed The Story Many Times During Concerts Such As At The Austin City Limits Music Festival In 2006 Where Introduced The Some With The Following Account So When I Was A Kid We Used To Go To Summer Camp Every Year. My Parents Would Send Me And My Siblings Away And One Time At Summer Camp I Met This One Kid And We Became Best Friends And We Started Hanging Out All The Time. We Go Swimming We Were Swimming Buddies And We Go Sailing And We Were Sailing Buddies And We Go Canoeing And We Were Canoeing Buddies. And Then We Went On A Long Camping Trip Where We Had To Stay In Tents And Hike For A Few Days And To Climb Up These Cliffs And Do All This Adventuring Outdoors. And One Time We Got A Little Bit Lost. We Wandered Off And We Saw This Huge Thing In The Sky. We Couldn’t Really Tell What It Was And It Looked Like Maybe It Was A Spaceship Or A UFO. So We’re Really Excited And It Was Coming Closer And Closer And It’s Making This Kinda Whirling Buzzing Noise. And Then When We Saw That It Was Really Close It Actually Had Wings And It Had Claws And It Looked Like A Giant Hawk Or A Big Eagle Or A Dragon Or Something. But Then It Also Had A Stinger And It Was Buzzing And Its Wings Were Kinda Transparent. So We Thought “Well It’s Definitely A Wasp ” But It Was So Big. It Was The Size Of A Goodyear Blimp. This Is Totally True. And We Were Running And Running And Running Way From It ‘cause It Was Chasing Us And It Was Buzzing And Flapping Its Wings And Cawing Like A Bird Like A Crow. And Then We Just Got Away From It Just In Time Before It Swooped Down And We Hid Out In A Cave For Several Days Eating Snickers Bars And Charleston Chews That We Had Stashed Away In Our Pockets. Et Cetera. And Then We Got Away. We Went Back To The Camp Oh No. And Then Everyone Was Like “Where Were You Guys?” We Said “Nevermind.” We Didn’t Wanna Tell Anyone. And Anyway The Rest Of The Week At Camp Everything We Saw That Was Like Flapping Around In The Sky Whether It Was A Mosquito Or A Kite Or A Plastic Bag Or A Helium Balloon We Were Afraid Of It. So This Is Maybe One Of Our Theme Songs For This Tour ‘cause That’s Why We All Have Wings On. It’s Sort Of To Overcome My Fear Of Flying Things. So This Song Sort Of Takes Some Of Those Memories From Summer Camp Puts It Into A Song About The Predatory Wasp That Was Out To Get Us.
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Sufjan Stevens Born July 1 1975 Is An American Musician Songwriter And Multi-Instrumentalist From Petoskey Michigan. He Is Known For His Lyrically Focused And Instrumentally Rich Songs That Often Relate To Faith And Family. He Has Enjoyed Wide Critical Success In The United States. He Is Considered Part Of The Folk Revival Through Indie Pop But His Influences Are Very Broad Including Experimental Electronic Music The Jazz Of Vince Guaraldi And The Academic Minimalism Of Steve Reich And Philip Glass. Though Stevens Had Announced Plans To Make An Album For Each Of The 50 U.S. States Beginning The Series With The Albums 'Michigan' 2003 And 'Illinois' 2005 He Has Since Then Somewhat Retracted The Statement. "Sufjan Stevens Is Not Going To Write A Record For Each Of The 50 States After All" Was The Original Text Included On The Online Liner Notes For 'Mews Too An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation' A Disc Released On February 7 2006. This Statement Was Possibly Included As A Joke As The Text Has Since Been Removed And The Current Liner Notes Related To Sufjan Stevens Reads "Sufjan Stevens Can Fold A Fitted-Sheet He Once Worked As A Professional Folder In A Commercial Laundromat ." Background Stevens Was Born In Detroit Michigan And Grew Up In The City Of Petoskey In That Same State. He Attended Hope College On The West Coast Of Michigan. The Name Sufjan Is An Arabic/Persian Name That Predates Islam And Most Famously Belonged To Abu Sufyan A Figure From Early Islamic History. It Has Been Mentioned In The Press That The Name Was Given To Stevens By The Leader Of Subud A Spiritual Sect To Which His Parents Belonged When He Was Born. Stevens Has Stated That The Name Is Of Armenian Origin And Means "comes With A Sword " And That It Is "a Charming Militaristic Muslim Name." In Fact The Name Is Not Armenian And Armenia Is A Predominantly Christian Country.
Sufjan Is Also The Plural Form Of Sufi In Persian . Sufi Is A Practitioner Of Sufism .This Word Is Frequently Used In The Old Persian Literature Specially Sufi Poetry . His Brother Marathonist Marzuki Stevens Has Trained To Compete In The 2008 Olympic Trials And Has Played On Two Of Sufjan's Albums. A Multi-Instrumentalist Stevens Plays The Banjo Guitar Drums And Several Other Instruments Often Playing All Of These On His Albums Through The Use Of Multi-Tracking. While In School He Studied The Oboe And English Horn Which He Also Plays On His Albums He Is One Of The Few Musicians In Popular Music To Use These Instruments. Career Sufjan Stevens Began His Musical Career As A Member Of Marzuki A Folk-Rock Band From Holland Michigan. He Also Played And Continues To Play Various Instruments For Danielson Famile. While In School At Hope College Stevens Wrote And Recorded His Debut Solo Album A Sun Came Which He Released On Asthmatic Kitty Records A Record Label He Founded With His Step-Father In 1999. He Later Moved To New York City Where He Was Enrolled In A Writing Program At The New School For Social Research. While In New York Stevens Composed And Recorded The Music For His Second Album Enjoy Your Rabbit A Song Cycle Based Around The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac That Ventured Into Electronica. Stevens Followed This With The First Of His 50 States Albums A Collection Of Folk Songs And Instrumentals Inspired By His Home State Of Michigan. The Result The Expansive Michigan Included Odes To Cities Including Detroit And Flint The Upper Peninsula And Vacation Areas Such As Tahquamenon Falls. Melded Into The Scenic Descriptions And Characters Are His Own Declarations Of Faith In God Sorrow Love And The Regeneration Of Michigan. Following The Release Of Michigan Stevens Compiled A Collection Of Songs Recorded Previously Into A Side Project The Christian Folk Album Seven Swans Which Was Released In March 2004. Next He Released The Second In The 50 States Projects Entitled Come On Feel The Illinoise!. Among The Subjects Explored On Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are The Cities Of Chicago Decatur And Jacksonville The Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy The Poet Carl Sandburg And Mississippi Palisades State Park. He Has Contributed To The Music Of Denison Witmer Soul Junk Half-Handed Cloud Brother Danielson Danielson Famile Serena Maneesh Castanets And Liz Janes. He Played Piano On For Fellow Brooklyn Musician's The National's Album 2007 Boxer. A Cover Of "She Is" Is Included On The Album Dream Brother Released In The United States On January 31 2006. Sufjan Contributed A Lot To The Sound Of The 2001 Liz Janes Album Done Gone Fire As He Engineered Recorded Produced And Arranged It As Well As Playing Many Addition Instruments. Sufjan Recently Recorded With Rosie Thomas And Denison Witmer Playing Banjo And Providing Vocals. It Is Unknown How This Record Will Be Released. In April 2006 Pitchfork Erroneously Announced That Stevens And Thomas Were Having A Baby Together But Were Forced To Print A Retraction. Witmer And Thomas Later Admitted It Was An April Fools' Prank. The Fifty States Project Beginning With Michigan Stevens Announced An Intent To Write An Album For Each Of The 50 U.S. States Although In Interviews He Wavers Between Utter Sincerity And Self-Deprecating Irony When Describing The Idea. Stevens Spent The Second Half Of 2004 Researching And Writing Material For The Second Of These Projects This Time Focusing His Efforts On Illinois. As With Michigan Stevens Used The State Of Illinois As A Leaping-Off Point For His More Personal Explorations Of Faith Family Love And Location. The Widely Acclaimed Illinois Was The Highest Rated Album Of 2005 On The Metacritic Review Aggregator Site Based On Glowing Reviews From Pitchfork The Onion A/V Club Spin Billboard Entertainment Weekly Rolling Stone The New York Times And The Guardian. The 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards Awarded Stevens With The Album Of The Year Best Album Art/Packaging And Male Artist Of The Year. Pitchfork Media And Paste Magazine Named Come On Feel The Illinoise! As The Editors' Choice For Best Album Of 2005 And Stevens Received The 2005 Pantheon Prize Awarded To Albums Selling 500 000 Copies Or Fewer For Come On Feel The Illinoise!. In April Of 2006 Stevens Announced That 21 Pieces Of Music He Had Culled From The Come On Feel The Illinoise! Recording Sessions Would Be Incorporated Into A New Album Called The Avalanche. The Album Was Released On July 11 2006. While There Were Other Projects Rumored To Be Released Following 2005's Illinois By 2009 And His Live Album The BQE He Was Seemingly Finished With The Project Calling It "Such A Joke" And Accepting That The Project Was Too Massive And Too Cliché To Ever Reach An End. Religious Themes Many Of Stevens' Songs Have Religious And Spiritual Allusions But His Album Seven Swans Has The Most Direct Religious References. Stevens Has Expressed That He Is Christian But Does Not Overtly Advertise This Aspect Of Himself In His Music. Stevens Has Also Stated That He Does Not Try To Make Music "with A Message" Or Music For The Sake Of Preaching. "I Don't Think Music Media Is The Real Forum For Theological Discussions " Says Stevens. "I Think I've Said Things And Sung About Things That Probably Weren't Appropriate For This Kind Of Forum. And I Just Feel Like It's Not My Work Or My Place To Be Making Claims And Statements Because I Often Think It's Misunderstood." The Songs 'Abraham' 'Seven Swans' 'To Be Alone With You' 'We Won't Need Legs To Stand' And 'The Transfiguration' Directly Address Christianity On The Album Seven Swans. In 'Abraham' Sufjan Recounts The Old Testament Story In The Book Of Genesis When Abraham Ordered By God As A Test Of Faith Leads His Son Isaac Up A Mountain And Prepares To Kill Him As Commanded But Before God Sends An Angel To Intervene . The Lyrics Of 'The Transfiguration' Follow The Biblical Accounts Of Jesus' Transfiguration In Matthew 17 1-8 Mark 9 1-8 And Luke 9 28-36. Michigan And Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are Packed With Christian References And Metaphors. Michigan Contains "Sleeping Bear Sault Saint Marie" Which Implores "Oh Lamb Of God! Tell Us Your Perfect Design And Give Us The Rod" "Lamb Of God" Being A Biblical Name For Jesus Christ . The Song "Oh God Where Are You Now?" Asks God To "hold Me Now" To "save Somehow" Searching For God In The Midst Of Personal Turmoil. "There's No Other Man Who Could Save The Dead " The Song States. The Album Closer 'Vito's Ordination Song' Was Apparently Originally Written For Sufjan's Friend Vito Aiuto And Its Lyrics Allude Directly To Psalm 139 "I Always Knew You. In Your Mother's Arms I Have Called Your Name" "I've Made A Crown For You" . The Song Speaks Of "When The Bridegroom Comes" - The New Testament Speaks Of Jesus Christ As Being The Bridegroom And The Church His Bride Finally Being United Together At The End Of Time. Come On Feel The Illinoise! Features The Song 'Chicago' With Its Refrain Of "You Came To Take Us To Recreate Us" And 'Decatur' Has The Chorus Of "It's The Great I Am" "I Am" Being The Name The Lord Reveals Himself By To Moses In Exodus 3 14 . "Casimir Pulaski Day" Speaks Of "All The Glory That The Lord Has Made" In The Midst Of Personal Pain And Loss. "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" Has The Lyrics "Lamb Of God We Sound The Horn. Hallelujah!" One Instrumental Passage Has The Title Of "In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth". "The Seer's Tower" Speaks Of Emanuel "With His Sword With His Robe He Comes Dividing Man From Brothers" An Interesting Side Note Is That "Sufjan" Actually Means "comes With A Sword" . Indeed The Vast Majority Of Songs Of Come On Feel The Illinoise! Contain Lyric Lines Which Can Be Readily Identified As Having A Basis In Stevens' Faith In Christ. Sufjan's Second Electronic Album Enjoy Your Rabbit Contains A Song Cycle Based On Of The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac Culminating With The Song "Year Of Our Lord". Stevens Released The Original Christian-Themed Song "God'll Ne'er Let You Down" On The "To Spirit Back The Mews" Compilation On Asthmatic Kitty. The Officially Unreleased Christmas Albums Sufjan Stevens Made And Then Compiled Into Songs For Christmas Feature Suitably Christmas And Christian Themed Music Both Originals And Covers Of Hymns And Traditional Songs. Trivia On Snow Patrol's 2006 Album Eyes Open There Is A Reference To Sufjan And The Song "Chicago" In The Song "Hands Open" - "Put Sufjan Stevens On And We'll Play Your Favorite Song/"Chicago" Bursts To Life And Your Sweet Smile Remembers You." Sufjan Has Twice Been Featured On The FOX Television Show "The OC". "To Be Alone With You" And "For The Widows In Paradise For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti" Can Be Heard On Episodes 202 And 315 Respectively. Sufjan Stevens' Music Has Appeared Twice On The Showtime Dark Comedy "Weeds". "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" Appears On S1E02 Over The End Credits And "Holland" Appears Near The End Of S2E10. Two Of Sufjan's Songs Appear On The Soundtrack To "Little Miss Sunshine" "Chicago" And "No Man's Land" The Song "John Wayne Gacy Jr." Appears On The 3rd Season Of The Tv Show "Nip/Tuck". Several Songs Can Be Heard On The Movie "Driving Lessons" You Can Also Hear Snippets In Between CSI Shows On 5US In The TV Show "Austin City Limits" He Mentioned That When He Was A Kid He And His Best Friend Saw Something In The Sky Which They Couldn't Figure Out. They Thought It Was A Spaceship Or UFO First Then An Eagle Or A Dragon. Finally They Realized It Was A Giant Wasp. He Wrote The Song "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" About The Incident And Mentioned That The Reason They The Band All Have Wings On Stage Is To Overcome His Fear Of Flying Things. The Song "Redford For Yia-Yia & Pappou " Is Heard In The 2012 "World Of Red Bull" Television Commercial. He Is Quoted As Saying "selling Out Never Looked So Good." And "somebody Had To Pay For All Of That Christmas Confetti." Referring To His Recent Christmas Album And Supporting Tour. In 2017 Stevens Wrote Two Original Songs To Be Featured In The Gay Drama Film “Call Me By Your Name” Entitled “Mystery Of Love” And “Visions Of Gideon”. He Also Made A Reworked Version Of His Song “Futile Devices” Which Is Also Featured On The Soundtrack.
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Sufjan Is Also The Plural Form Of Sufi In Persian . Sufi Is A Practitioner Of Sufism .This Word Is Frequently Used In The Old Persian Literature Specially Sufi Poetry . His Brother Marathonist Marzuki Stevens Has Trained To Compete In The 2008 Olympic Trials And Has Played On Two Of Sufjan's Albums. A Multi-Instrumentalist Stevens Plays The Banjo Guitar Drums And Several Other Instruments Often Playing All Of These On His Albums Through The Use Of Multi-Tracking. While In School He Studied The Oboe And English Horn Which He Also Plays On His Albums He Is One Of The Few Musicians In Popular Music To Use These Instruments. Career Sufjan Stevens Began His Musical Career As A Member Of Marzuki A Folk-Rock Band From Holland Michigan. He Also Played And Continues To Play Various Instruments For Danielson Famile. While In School At Hope College Stevens Wrote And Recorded His Debut Solo Album A Sun Came Which He Released On Asthmatic Kitty Records A Record Label He Founded With His Step-Father In 1999. He Later Moved To New York City Where He Was Enrolled In A Writing Program At The New School For Social Research. While In New York Stevens Composed And Recorded The Music For His Second Album Enjoy Your Rabbit A Song Cycle Based Around The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac That Ventured Into Electronica. Stevens Followed This With The First Of His 50 States Albums A Collection Of Folk Songs And Instrumentals Inspired By His Home State Of Michigan. The Result The Expansive Michigan Included Odes To Cities Including Detroit And Flint The Upper Peninsula And Vacation Areas Such As Tahquamenon Falls. Melded Into The Scenic Descriptions And Characters Are His Own Declarations Of Faith In God Sorrow Love And The Regeneration Of Michigan. Following The Release Of Michigan Stevens Compiled A Collection Of Songs Recorded Previously Into A Side Project The Christian Folk Album Seven Swans Which Was Released In March 2004. Next He Released The Second In The 50 States Projects Entitled Come On Feel The Illinoise!. Among The Subjects Explored On Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are The Cities Of Chicago Decatur And Jacksonville The Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy The Poet Carl Sandburg And Mississippi Palisades State Park. He Has Contributed To The Music Of Denison Witmer Soul Junk Half-Handed Cloud Brother Danielson Danielson Famile Serena Maneesh Castanets And Liz Janes. He Played Piano On For Fellow Brooklyn Musician's The National's Album 2007 Boxer. A Cover Of "She Is" Is Included On The Album Dream Brother Released In The United States On January 31 2006. Sufjan Contributed A Lot To The Sound Of The 2001 Liz Janes Album Done Gone Fire As He Engineered Recorded Produced And Arranged It As Well As Playing Many Addition Instruments. Sufjan Recently Recorded With Rosie Thomas And Denison Witmer Playing Banjo And Providing Vocals. It Is Unknown How This Record Will Be Released. In April 2006 Pitchfork Erroneously Announced That Stevens And Thomas Were Having A Baby Together But Were Forced To Print A Retraction. Witmer And Thomas Later Admitted It Was An April Fools' Prank. The Fifty States Project Beginning With Michigan Stevens Announced An Intent To Write An Album For Each Of The 50 U.S. States Although In Interviews He Wavers Between Utter Sincerity And Self-Deprecating Irony When Describing The Idea. Stevens Spent The Second Half Of 2004 Researching And Writing Material For The Second Of These Projects This Time Focusing His Efforts On Illinois. As With Michigan Stevens Used The State Of Illinois As A Leaping-Off Point For His More Personal Explorations Of Faith Family Love And Location. The Widely Acclaimed Illinois Was The Highest Rated Album Of 2005 On The Metacritic Review Aggregator Site Based On Glowing Reviews From Pitchfork The Onion A/V Club Spin Billboard Entertainment Weekly Rolling Stone The New York Times And The Guardian. The 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards Awarded Stevens With The Album Of The Year Best Album Art/Packaging And Male Artist Of The Year. Pitchfork Media And Paste Magazine Named Come On Feel The Illinoise! As The Editors' Choice For Best Album Of 2005 And Stevens Received The 2005 Pantheon Prize Awarded To Albums Selling 500 000 Copies Or Fewer For Come On Feel The Illinoise!. In April Of 2006 Stevens Announced That 21 Pieces Of Music He Had Culled From The Come On Feel The Illinoise! Recording Sessions Would Be Incorporated Into A New Album Called The Avalanche. The Album Was Released On July 11 2006. While There Were Other Projects Rumored To Be Released Following 2005's Illinois By 2009 And His Live Album The BQE He Was Seemingly Finished With The Project Calling It "Such A Joke" And Accepting That The Project Was Too Massive And Too Cliché To Ever Reach An End. Religious Themes Many Of Stevens' Songs Have Religious And Spiritual Allusions But His Album Seven Swans Has The Most Direct Religious References. Stevens Has Expressed That He Is Christian But Does Not Overtly Advertise This Aspect Of Himself In His Music. Stevens Has Also Stated That He Does Not Try To Make Music "with A Message" Or Music For The Sake Of Preaching. "I Don't Think Music Media Is The Real Forum For Theological Discussions " Says Stevens. "I Think I've Said Things And Sung About Things That Probably Weren't Appropriate For This Kind Of Forum. And I Just Feel Like It's Not My Work Or My Place To Be Making Claims And Statements Because I Often Think It's Misunderstood." The Songs 'Abraham' 'Seven Swans' 'To Be Alone With You' 'We Won't Need Legs To Stand' And 'The Transfiguration' Directly Address Christianity On The Album Seven Swans. In 'Abraham' Sufjan Recounts The Old Testament Story In The Book Of Genesis When Abraham Ordered By God As A Test Of Faith Leads His Son Isaac Up A Mountain And Prepares To Kill Him As Commanded But Before God Sends An Angel To Intervene . The Lyrics Of 'The Transfiguration' Follow The Biblical Accounts Of Jesus' Transfiguration In Matthew 17 1-8 Mark 9 1-8 And Luke 9 28-36. Michigan And Come On Feel The Illinoise! Are Packed With Christian References And Metaphors. Michigan Contains "Sleeping Bear Sault Saint Marie" Which Implores "Oh Lamb Of God! Tell Us Your Perfect Design And Give Us The Rod" "Lamb Of God" Being A Biblical Name For Jesus Christ . The Song "Oh God Where Are You Now?" Asks God To "hold Me Now" To "save Somehow" Searching For God In The Midst Of Personal Turmoil. "There's No Other Man Who Could Save The Dead " The Song States. The Album Closer 'Vito's Ordination Song' Was Apparently Originally Written For Sufjan's Friend Vito Aiuto And Its Lyrics Allude Directly To Psalm 139 "I Always Knew You. In Your Mother's Arms I Have Called Your Name" "I've Made A Crown For You" . The Song Speaks Of "When The Bridegroom Comes" - The New Testament Speaks Of Jesus Christ As Being The Bridegroom And The Church His Bride Finally Being United Together At The End Of Time. Come On Feel The Illinoise! Features The Song 'Chicago' With Its Refrain Of "You Came To Take Us To Recreate Us" And 'Decatur' Has The Chorus Of "It's The Great I Am" "I Am" Being The Name The Lord Reveals Himself By To Moses In Exodus 3 14 . "Casimir Pulaski Day" Speaks Of "All The Glory That The Lord Has Made" In The Midst Of Personal Pain And Loss. "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" Has The Lyrics "Lamb Of God We Sound The Horn. Hallelujah!" One Instrumental Passage Has The Title Of "In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth". "The Seer's Tower" Speaks Of Emanuel "With His Sword With His Robe He Comes Dividing Man From Brothers" An Interesting Side Note Is That "Sufjan" Actually Means "comes With A Sword" . Indeed The Vast Majority Of Songs Of Come On Feel The Illinoise! Contain Lyric Lines Which Can Be Readily Identified As Having A Basis In Stevens' Faith In Christ. Sufjan's Second Electronic Album Enjoy Your Rabbit Contains A Song Cycle Based On Of The Animals Of The Chinese Zodiac Culminating With The Song "Year Of Our Lord". Stevens Released The Original Christian-Themed Song "God'll Ne'er Let You Down" On The "To Spirit Back The Mews" Compilation On Asthmatic Kitty. The Officially Unreleased Christmas Albums Sufjan Stevens Made And Then Compiled Into Songs For Christmas Feature Suitably Christmas And Christian Themed Music Both Originals And Covers Of Hymns And Traditional Songs. Trivia On Snow Patrol's 2006 Album Eyes Open There Is A Reference To Sufjan And The Song "Chicago" In The Song "Hands Open" - "Put Sufjan Stevens On And We'll Play Your Favorite Song/"Chicago" Bursts To Life And Your Sweet Smile Remembers You." Sufjan Has Twice Been Featured On The FOX Television Show "The OC". "To Be Alone With You" And "For The Widows In Paradise For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti" Can Be Heard On Episodes 202 And 315 Respectively. Sufjan Stevens' Music Has Appeared Twice On The Showtime Dark Comedy "Weeds". "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" Appears On S1E02 Over The End Credits And "Holland" Appears Near The End Of S2E10. Two Of Sufjan's Songs Appear On The Soundtrack To "Little Miss Sunshine" "Chicago" And "No Man's Land" The Song "John Wayne Gacy Jr." Appears On The 3rd Season Of The Tv Show "Nip/Tuck". Several Songs Can Be Heard On The Movie "Driving Lessons" You Can Also Hear Snippets In Between CSI Shows On 5US In The TV Show "Austin City Limits" He Mentioned That When He Was A Kid He And His Best Friend Saw Something In The Sky Which They Couldn't Figure Out. They Thought It Was A Spaceship Or UFO First Then An Eagle Or A Dragon. Finally They Realized It Was A Giant Wasp. He Wrote The Song "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" About The Incident And Mentioned That The Reason They The Band All Have Wings On Stage Is To Overcome His Fear Of Flying Things. The Song "Redford For Yia-Yia & Pappou " Is Heard In The 2012 "World Of Red Bull" Television Commercial. He Is Quoted As Saying "selling Out Never Looked So Good." And "somebody Had To Pay For All Of That Christmas Confetti." Referring To His Recent Christmas Album And Supporting Tour. In 2017 Stevens Wrote Two Original Songs To Be Featured In The Gay Drama Film “Call Me By Your Name” Entitled “Mystery Of Love” And “Visions Of Gideon”. He Also Made A Reworked Version Of His Song “Futile Devices” Which Is Also Featured On The Soundtrack.
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“Predatory Wasp” chronicles Sufjan’s romantic relationship with a male friend during a Methodist summer camp he attended in his youth.
In a 2017 interview with Salon, he described it as being “an awakening,” and explained that it happened when he was in high school, around the age of 16.
Stevens alludes to this same relationship more explicitly in “Venus” from "Planetarium".
Gay people often struggle with feeling “predatory” around their straight friends—a phenomenon that can be traced to both the sexualization of gay experience in American culture, and the strict gender division in the rest of heterosexual society (The same division that expects coworkers of different genders not to be alone together, according to a recent New York Times survey: It’s Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone With the Opposite Sex)
So if you’re a young boy at a Methodist summer camp, struggling with your new-found attraction to your best friend, part of the thing you also have to struggle with is the way society tell you that this attraction is a corruption of your friendship, and “predatory”. This is also a reflection of the way same-sex relationships are considered “adult” or not safe for kids, but straight crushes are seen as normal for a much younger age. Any discussion of the lived experience of gay people is seen as sexual or taboo—something that is patently absurd, especially when it’s about young kids with crushes. (This happens to an even greater extent with lesbian or bi women, and people of color in the gay community: As A Queer Middle-Schooler, I Have A Problem With Media Representation)
So, as it may be obvious, the “predatory” wasp of the Palisades is a continuation of the wasp’s use as an extended metaphor for the narrator’s feelings about his friend, and his struggles with them.
In the 2015 Pitchfork feature True Myth: A Conversation with Sufjan Stevens, Sufjan gave the following response when asked about Christianity:
"I had this childhood fantasy of becoming a priest or a preacher, so I would read and study the bible and then make my family listen to me read a passage from the New Testament before meals—and they very begrudgingly accommodated that for a while. I was just fascinated; some of my most profound spiritual and sexual experiences were at a Methodist summer camp."
Two years later, he was interviewed by Salon for the feature Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth which promoted their then-upcoming album "Planetarium".
Moving on, tell me about Methodist summer camp [a reference on “Venus”].
Stevens: Well, that’s when I had my first sexual experience.
Muhly: Is that actually true?
Stevens: Yes.
Muhly: That’s nasty.
How old?
Stevens: [Laughs] I’ve never been asked that!
Well, Methodist summer camp.
Stevens: I was old enough. I was in high school. I went to many different summer camps. And I remember going to Methodist summer camp, and it’s when I first learned that God is not male. So we would sing these classic hymns — “Our god is an awesome god, he brings…” – and this woman would always stop us and be like, “Actually, we shouldn’t use he or she pronouns. We should just use ‘God.’”
The Methodists were way ahead of their time.
Stevens: My mind was blown. And the phrase was, everything “rocks.” “God rocks.” And there was a lot of cigarette smoking.
Was it a romantic experience?
Stevens: Yeah, it was an awakening. [Laughs] I was probably 16.
(emphasis added)
He’s also relayed the story many times during concerts, such as at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2006, where introduced the some with the following account:
So, when I was a kid we used to go to summer camp every year. My parents would send me and my siblings away, and one time at summer camp I met this one kid and we became best friends and we started hanging out all the time.
We go swimming, we were swimming buddies, and we go sailing and we were sailing buddies, and we go canoeing and we were canoeing buddies. And then we went on a long camping trip where we had to stay in tents and hike for a few days and to climb up these cliffs and do all this adventuring outdoors.
And one time we got a little bit lost. We wandered off and we saw this huge thing in the sky. We couldn’t really tell what it was and it looked like maybe it was a spaceship or a UFO. So we’re really excited and it was coming closer and closer and it’s making this kinda whirling, buzzing noise.
And then when we saw that it was really close it actually had wings and it had claws and it looked like a giant hawk or a big eagle or a dragon or something. But then it also had a stinger and it was buzzing and its wings were kinda transparent. So we thought, “Well, it’s definitely a wasp,” but it was so big. It was the size of a Goodyear blimp. This is totally true.
And we were running and running and running way from it ‘cause it was chasing us and it was buzzing and flapping its wings and cawing like a bird (like a crow.) And then we just got away from it just in time before it swooped down and we hid out in a cave for several days eating Snickers bars and Charleston Chews that we had stashed away in our pockets.
Et cetera. And then we got away. We went back to the camp, oh no. And then everyone was like “Where were you guys?” We said “Nevermind.” We didn’t wanna tell anyone. And anyway the rest of the week at camp, everything we saw that was like flapping around in the sky whether it was a mosquito or a kite or a plastic bag or a helium balloon, we were afraid of it.
So, this is maybe one of our theme songs for this tour ‘cause that’s why we all have wings on. It’s sort of to overcome my fear of flying things. So this song sort of takes some of those memories from summer camp, puts it into a song about the predatory wasp that was out to get us. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.