It’s the year of unlikely Sufjan Stevens moves: on Friday he made his network TV debut, performing “Too Much” for Jimmy Fallon. And today we’ve got a rare music video from Stevens, also for “Too Much.” It’s a pretty simple clip of Stevens and some friends doing stroboscopic dance moves for the camera. But his sleeveless Nike t-shirt is also a bit unexpected. Directed by Deborah Johnson.
(via P4K)
The Age Of Adz is out now via Asthmatic Kitty.
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This was used as background graphics for his tour. It was kinda strange because he jokingly (not jokingly?) introduced his Sunday set at the Beacon Theater as sponsored by a bunch of large companies, one of them Nike.
Like Paul said, this was playing on a big screen behind the band during his tour. No idea about the Nike sponsorship, but it was rad to see him happier than he’s ever looked.
Where’s sad Sufjan gone?
The Nike sponsorship makes me sad.
Looking like a Chelsea Queen suf! You bettah WERK!
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Not so much as a genuine retort, but rather an honest question..did you select those 4 bands at random, as examples of other bands the–often hated/referenced disparagingly but really quite meaningless as an actual term of identification when you really stop to consider it objectively–hipsters like? Or because you actually hear those bands being imitated on this song? If the latter..really? I’m struggling to hear any similarities to any of those bands you mentioned, let alone similarities that would warrant an accusation of imitation.
unless, of course, you were referring to the video rather than the song, in which case I guess I need to start watching more music videos.
He was joking about the nike sponsorship. He also said the show was sponsored by My Little Pony. It was sponsored by coke so he jokingly kept adding names to it.
That’s right! I forgot what other companies/brands he mentioned. It definitely sounded jokey, but then the video started playing with him in the Nike shirt and it definitely caught my attention. I would have not even noticed it if he hadn’t just named the brand.
In any case, the show was great and real or fake sponsorships don’t change that.
the album is called the “Age of Adz”, pronounced Oddz but spelled like Ads. Hes making a statement about Consumerism, Advertising and “selling out”, like the bands Paul Widz listed.
obvs.
ironically, this page im on is bombarded with nike ads, and i work for them too.
the album is called the “Age of Adz”, pronounced Oddz but spelled like Ads. Hes making a statement about Consumerism, Advertising and “selling out”, like the bands Paul Widz listed.
obvs.
ironically, this page im on is bombarded with nike ads, and i work for them too.
Who cares where sad Sufjan went. We need to remember that Sexy Sufjan took his place.
let the hipsters scoff at the nike shirt while they type on their air macs assembled in filthy chinese dormitories and furnish their brooklyn apartments with ikea products made in taiwan
1. I love Nike; have tons of their hip sneakers.
2. Sufjan is hot; it’s ridiculous. Granted, I could only make it through a few minutes of this, but yummy.
Sad Sufjan is the reason Age of Adz exists. Sad Sufjan doesn’t go away. He just hides behind the happier version. Just like we all are all the time. Ha.
Sufjan can be whatever he wants to be if he’s putting out music this good.
Entertaining video, but it makes me wonder what a freaky-ass place the closet must be…
As much as I love “Sad Sufjan”, if “this” Sufjan keeps on making videos in sleeveless Nike t-shirts, I don’t think I really mind the “change”…
It should be a crime to look and sound that delicious. It probably is, in some states.
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But definitely NOT in Michigan or Illinois.
I wonder how many people will agree, but I really think this album deserves Best Album this year. A few competitors, but it’s so fucking good (and I’m not even a huge fan of his earlier stuff).
I miss the banjo.
There, i said it.
i think the record is great and this particular song fairly deserves to be a single. i don’t really care about the NIKE lash-out but i am quite though i try so hard to shake it off, reminded by diamond rings by the way he acts here. just cannot let it go!
i dont know about you guys but I kinda like monkey Sufjan.
I’m curious. At what point in an alt rock/indie dude’s career is it established protocol to release a dance/electronic record? 4 albums? 10 years? Flagging popularity?
I mean, a bunch of punk kids decided that maybe disco didn’t entirely suck and new wave was born. Then the new wave kids really liked dancing so much they were amazed when they discovered house. The alt dudes stumbled into techno and electronica, probably through a similar taste in drugs. The indie kids sold their guitars, bought turntables, and called it electro. And I guess now that everyone has a computer and the applicable software we’ve all decided to try a hand at chillwave/hypnogogic/bedroom pop/whatever the fuck it’s called.
Seriously though…why?
i went to his Age of Adz concert a month ago and it was the start of his tour, he played this video as a backdrop to the concert when he performed too much. it was pretty fucking awesome live, but it does really make you question how much sufjan has changed since his seven swans or even illinoise days. everything on this album sounds different too, a bit like he wants us all to forget he was the folky gentle angelic man who sang ‘flint’.
also most of the songs on this album is inspired by a schizophrenic artist from the 60′s, along with the imagery.
Great song,
Kinda lame videp
I’d expect to see this playing at forever 21.
So Windows95