Sufjan Stevens has writer’s block
Sufjan Stevens seems to be having a hard time of dealing with the ever-changing music industry. In an interview with Canadian site Exclaim, he bemoans the fact that people don’t appreciate albums anymore:
I definitely feel like “What is the point? What’s the point of making music anymore?” I feel that the album no longer has a stronghold or has any real bearing anymore. The physical format itself is obsolete; the CD is obsolete and the LP is kinda nostalgic. So, I think the album is suffering and that’s how I’ve always created — I work with these conceptual albums in the long-form.
He also explains that he’s tired of his own conceptual album ideas and even he doesn’t know what to do next:
I’m tired of these grand, epic endeavours and wanting to just make music for the joy of making music and having it be immediate and nothing to do with the industry itself, which, y’know is suffering right now of course.
And I think it has to do with a creative crisis too. I’m wondering what am I doing? What is a song even? I’m questioning, what’s the point of a song? Is a song antiquated? Does it have any power any more? The format itself — a narrative song with accompaniment — is really beyond me now.
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Max
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