{"id":2444706,"date":"2019-05-29T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=841466"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:25:56","slug":"sufjan-stevens-reveals-two-new-songs-for-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/sufjan-stevens-reveals-two-new-songs-for-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufjan Stevens Reveals Two New Songs for Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sufjan_stevens.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sufjan-stevens\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sufjan-stevens\" data-tag=\"sufjan-stevens\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a> unveiled two <a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/ly-wmwh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">new songs<\/a> to celebrate Pride Month, \u201cLove Yourself\u201d and \u201cWith My Whole Heart.\u201d \u201cLove Yourself\u201d is an immersive track that finds Stevens singing over a steady patter of drums and a blend of sparkling synths. The song is based on a 1996 sketch, and Stevens also shared the original four-track <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DtMlHRXBi0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">demo<\/a> and a short instrumental <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j4Zx37h7H-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWith My Whole Heart,\u201d meanwhile, is a completely new song that finds Stevens dabbling in euphoric pop, with just a pinch of disco. In a statement, Stevens said he wanted to challenge himself to \u201cwrite an upbeat and sincere love song without conflict, anxiety or self-deprecation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAcn32Usjy0?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLove Yourself\u201d and \u201cWith My Whole Heart\u201d will be released as a limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single, June 28th. A portion of the proceeds from the project will benefit the Ali Forney Center in Harlem, New York and the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit, Michigan, both of which provide support to LGBTQ and homeless kids. Along with the new song, Stevens also released a new Pride t-shirt, which is available on his <a href=\"https:\/\/sufjamz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLove Yourself\u201d and \u201cWith My Whole Heart\u201d mark Stevens\u2019 first new music since the release of his 2018 Christmas song, \u201cLonely Man of Winter.\u201d Prior to that, Stevens notably contributed several songs to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/call-me-by-your-name-review-steamy-tale-of-first-love-is-sexiest-film-of-2017-129281\/\"><em>Call Me By Your Name<\/em><\/a> soundtrack, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/oscars-2018-mary-j-blige-common-sufjan-stevens-vie-for-best-song-119277\/\">Oscar-nominated<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-sufjan-stevens-sun-dappled-mystery-of-love-video-119992\/\">\u201cMysteries of Love.\u201d<\/a> His last solo album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/carrie-lowell-113010\/\"><em>Carrie and Lowell<\/em><\/a>, was released in 2015, while in 2017 he teamed with Bryce Dessner of the National and drummer James McAlister for a record about the solar system, <em>Planetarium<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sufjan-stevens-new-songs-pride-month-love-yourself-with-my-whole-heart-841466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufjan Stevens unveiled two new songs to celebrate Pride Month, \u201cLove Yourself\u201d and \u201cWith My Whole Heart.\u201d \u201cLove Yourself\u201d is an immersive track that finds Stevens singing over a steady patter of drums and a blend of sparkling synths. The song is based on a 1996 sketch, and Stevens also shared the original four-track demo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 21:34:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}