{"id":25932,"date":"2016-05-05T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25932"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:37:55","slug":"take-a-sad-song-and-make-it-better-listen-to-holly-mirandas-cover-of-sufjan-stevens-no-shade-in-the-shadow-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-05\/take-a-sad-song-and-make-it-better-listen-to-holly-mirandas-cover-of-sufjan-stevens-no-shade-in-the-shadow-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Sad Song and Make It Better&#8211;Listen to Holly Miranda&#8217;s Cover of Sufjan Stevens&#8217; &#8220;No Shade In The Shadow Of the Cross&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"HollyMiranda\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HollyMiranda-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following her critically-acclaimed, eponymous album of last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/hollymiranda.com\/\"><strong>Holly Miranda<\/strong><\/a> will next week release a covers EP entitled <em><strong>Party Trick<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerbirdrecords.com\/\"><strong>Dangerbird<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0<strong>Miranda<\/strong> has now released her cover of <strong>Sufjan Stevens\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>devastatingly sad and beautiful song\u00a0<em><strong>No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross<\/strong><\/em> from <em><strong>Carrie &amp; Lowell<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0While <strong>Miranda&#8217;s<\/strong> version isn&#8217;t a complete re-imagining of the song, her languid and sultry vocals bring appropriately world-weary elements to it. And make it better.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that old song go again? \u00a0Oh yeah, &#8220;Take a sad song, and make it better.&#8221; Well done, <strong>Holly Miranda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/257652897&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her critically-acclaimed, eponymous album of last year, Holly Miranda will next week release a covers EP entitled Party Trick\u00a0via Dangerbird. \u00a0Miranda has now released her cover of Sufjan Stevens\u2019\u00a0devastatingly sad and beautiful song\u00a0No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross from Carrie &amp; Lowell. \u00a0While Miranda&#8217;s version isn&#8217;t a complete re-imagining of the song, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25932","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\/25932","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=25932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25950,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions\/25950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}