US singer and songwriter Sufjan Stevens started his music career during the mid 1990s. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan. This music star was born on the first day of July 1975. “Mystery...
These days, it’s almost as if we have two separate music industries. That is to say that with the rise of the internet and social media has also come songs, such as “Progress”, which due to...
This is a song with very ambiguous lyrics. The Sandman, as generally understood, is a mythical being who induces sleep. So with the addressee being depicted as “running from the… Sandman”, the logical implication would then be...
It has been put forth by many an analyst that “Don’t Cross the River” is actually Christian in nature, i.e. pointing to the idea of the troubled subject of the song being exhorted to accept Jesus...
In “To Each His Own”, the vocalist takes on the role of an individual who decides to initiate a new lease in life in the most extreme way, i.e. by forsaking his past. At...
This mellow song captures the sadness of a typical post-breakup. Reminiscing every precious memory being with the person only to realize that they’re gone is a painful trip to go through. Fortunately, despite the...
For starters, the vocalist is not referring to literal “magic” per se. Rather he is speaking to something like positivity thinking, i.e. the belief that your world can completely change for the better via an...
This is, at least in part, a go-west song – a category which it seems we haven’t come across in a while. That is to say that “Arcadia” reads like one of those pieces that idealizes...
“America” is a really deep song, no matter which way you try to cut it. According to one of the explanations given by vocalist Hannah Reid, it doesn’t really have a meaning. Or more specifically, the lyrics...
“America” is a song partially inspired by Paul Simon’s relationship with a lady named Kathy Chitty, a union we will get a bit more into later. Or more precisely in relation to this track, the...
