{"id":13669,"date":"2012-11-20T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2012-11-20T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:14:39","slug":"watch-sufjan-stevens-official-video-for-joy-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-11\/watch-sufjan-stevens-official-video-for-joy-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sufjan Stevens&#8217; Official Video for &#8220;Joy to the World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure the video itself is kitschy as all Christmas.\u00a0 But <strong>Sufjan Stevens&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong> re-imagining of the Christmas chestnut, <em><strong>Joy to the World<\/strong><\/em>, <strong><\/strong> is no parts kitsch (well, except for that vexing <strong>vocoder<\/strong>, but we&#8217;re dealing).\u00a0\u00a0 Beginning with the sound set at <strong>sheer-beauty<\/strong>, the song segues into static, electronica-wonderland and other niblets of noise, even tossing in the glorious chorus (&#8220;we can do much more together it&#8217;s not so impossible&#8221;) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SbYK4zUSuls\"><strong>Impossible Soul<\/strong><\/a> off his last album, <strong>The Age of Adz<\/strong><em><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 <em><strong>Joy to the World<\/strong><\/em> is off of the new Christmas box set<strong> Silver &amp; Gold<\/strong> from Stevens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sufjan Stevens, &quot;Joy To The World&quot; [Track 8\/9, Vol. 8]\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhTCh7smrR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure the video itself is kitschy as all Christmas.\u00a0 But Sufjan Stevens&#8217;\u00a0 re-imagining of the Christmas chestnut, Joy to the World, is no parts kitsch (well, except for that vexing vocoder, but we&#8217;re dealing).\u00a0\u00a0 Beginning with the sound set at sheer-beauty, the song segues into static, electronica-wonderland and other niblets of noise, even tossing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}