{"id":14850,"date":"2013-01-24T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2013-01-24T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:13:47","slug":"sufjan-stevens-completes-fifty-states-project-in-one-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/sufjan-stevens-completes-fifty-states-project-in-one-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufjan Stevens Completes Fifty-States Project In One Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sufjan-stevens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14859\" alt=\"sufjan-stevens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sufjan-stevens.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sufjan-stevens.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sufjan-stevens-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> first gave us the album <strong>Michigan<\/strong> and then <strong>Come On Feel The Illinoise<\/strong>, vowing to release an album for each of the United States of America.\u00a0 And that was the end of it.\u00a0 From there Stevens ventured off to Adz, maneuvered orchestrally in the light, and then went <strong>completely Christmas<\/strong> (repeatedly).\u00a0 Today <strong>on his Tumblr<\/strong>, Stevens released an untitled song that on first blush seems to wrap up the <strong>Fifty-States Project<\/strong> in one fell swoop. The song opens as follows: &#8220;It&#8217;s part of the act, the fifty states, pack up your bags, it&#8217;s never too late.&#8221;\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t done a full State-audit, but the song does seem to call out every remaining non-Michigan, non-Illinois state in the union.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the completion many states had stridently sought, but it does wrap it up so that Stevens can move on.\u00a0 You can listen to the new song <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/swf\/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/audio_file\/thesufjanstevensmodel5000\/41291288997\/tumblr_mh3dnwORZu1rgw0ad&amp;color=FFFFFF&amp;logo=soundcloud\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Pack up your bags!\u00a0 It&#8217;s never too late!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufjan Stevens first gave us the album Michigan and then Come On Feel The Illinoise, vowing to release an album for each of the United States of America.\u00a0 And that was the end of it.\u00a0 From there Stevens ventured off to Adz, maneuvered orchestrally in the light, and then went completely Christmas (repeatedly).\u00a0 Today on [&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-14850","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\/14850","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=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}