The Most Depressing Album of the Year Is John Legend’s Sufjan Stevens-Produced Children’s Album
Consider yourself warned.
“John Legend Announces Kids Album Produced by Sufjan Stevens” sounds like the kind of random Mad Libs headline I would have made up to test out a new CMS feature back at my old job running Pitchfork’s news section. Shockingly, though, it is a real thing that actually exists in the real world. The album is called My Favorite Dream and it came out in August. You probably haven’t heard it, unless you are a superfan of EGOT-winning, wedding-playlist staple John Legend, or a superfan of indie folk hero Sufjan Stevens, or a caregiver of a young child who is desperate for something new to play in the car. (I fall into the latter category.) I am here to warn my fellow grown-ups: This album is extremely depressing. I cried multiple times while listening to it.
