{"id":2624,"date":"2017-12-10T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/10\/sufjan-stevens-says-i-tonya-didnt-want-his-tonya-harding-song-but-you-can-listen-to-it-anyway\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T18:17:00","slug":"sufjan-stevens-says-i-tonya-didnt-want-his-tonya-harding-song-but-you-can-listen-to-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/10\/sufjan-stevens-says-i-tonya-didnt-want-his-tonya-harding-song-but-you-can-listen-to-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufjan Stevens Says \u2018I, Tonya\u2019 Didn\u2019t Want His Tonya Harding Song, but You Can Listen to It Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sufjan Stevens<\/a> contributed two highly acclaimed tunes to the “Call Me by Your Name” soundtrack, with both “Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon” considered likely nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. To hear the indie-rock icon tell it, he almost had another in the mix this fall: \u201cTonya<\/a> Harding,\u201d which, despite his efforts, bears no relation to \u201cI<\/a>, Tonya.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margot Robbie stars as the disgraced figure skater in Craig Gillespie\u2019s biopic, which has earned strong reviews since premiering in Toronto and opens later this month. Stevens writes on his website that he\u2019s \u201cbeen trying to write a Tonya Harding song since I was 15\u201d and that the final product is \u201cnot at all related to the new biopic\u201d because he \u201csent it to the music<\/a> supervisors but they couldn\u2019t find a way to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n