Elsewhere in the interview, Stevens expresses what sounds like a total lack of interest in the album as an art form: “I’m wondering, why do people make albums anymore when we just download? Why are songs like three or four minutes, and why are records 40 minutes long? They’re based on the record, vinyl, the CD, and these forms are antiquated now. So can’t an album be eternity, or can’t it be five minutes? … I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.”

Sufjan Stevens Calls the 50 States Album Project “Such a Joke”

Oh cry me a river, Sufjan. You no longer have faith in the song? What does that even mean?

Just admit you don’t have any good ideas for songs and quit trying to be so philosophical about it.

- sean

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