History Trivia / SufjanStevens

** The Roots have used "Redford" (from ''Michigan'') as the lead-in to the instrumental piece concluding their 2011 ConceptAlbum ''Undun''. Redford Stevens, the fictional character at the center of the album's narrative, is also named after Sufjan.

* OldShame: Sufjan's unreleased ''Stalker'' album would seem to qualify, ''if'' it's a genuine Sufjan project. (In short: in 2016 musician Marc Rebillet made a Reddit post claiming he had found some discarded copies of a never-released Sufjan CD from 1998, a concept album about stalkers, in the dumpster of a building where they both worked. Rebillet posted photos of the album art along with some feasibly Sufjan-esque audio. Sufjan never gave a response, and a representative from his record label admitted to not knowing if the project was real or not, while also expressing frustration that someone would leak a "discovered" album without the artist's consent. To this day fans are divided as to ''Stalker'''s authenticity, but if real it seems clear Sufjan didn't intend for anyone to hear it.)

** Music/ChildishGambino, going under his DJ alias [=mcDJ=], made an album called ''Illin-Noise'' that consisted of several songs from ''Illinois'' sampled into beats. He also mentions Stevens in the track "Fire Fly":
---> ''No live shows, cause I can't find sponsors''\\

** Music/SnowPatrol name-drop him in "Hands Open" ([[CriticalResearchFailure mispronouncing his name]] in the process):

* OldShame: Sufjan's unreleased ''Stalker'' album would seem to qualify, ''if'' it's a genuine Sufjan project. (In short: in 2016 musician Marc Rebillet made a Reddit post claiming he had found some discarded copies of a never-released Sufjan CD from 1998, a concept album about stalkers, in the dumpster of a building where they both worked. Rebillet posted photos of the album art along with some feasibly Sufjan-esque audio. Sufjan never gave a response, and a representative from his record label admitted not to know if the project was real or not (while also expressing frustration that someone would leak a "discovered" album without the artist's consent). To this day fans are divided as to ''Stalker'''s authenticity, but if real it seems clear Sufjan didn't intend for anyone to hear it.)

* OldShame: Sufjan's unreleased ''Stalker'' album would certainly qualify, ''if'' it's a genuine Sufjan project. (In short: in 2016 musician Marc Rebillet made a Reddit post claiming he had found some discarded copies of a never-released Sufjan CD from 1998, a concept album about stalkers, in the dumpster of a building where they both worked. Rebillet posted photos of the album art along with some feasibly Sufjan-esque audio. Sufjan never gave a response, and a representative from his record label admitted not to know if the project was real or not (while also expressing frustration that someone would leak a "discovered" album without the artist's consent). To this day fans are divided as to ''Stalker'''s authenticity, but if real it seems clear Sufjan didn't intend for anyone to hear it.)

* BigNameFan: Aside from some of the examples listed under ReferencedBy below:
** Music/KanyeWest tweeted a photo of him listening to "Death with Dignity" on [=YouTube=].
** Danny Brown named ''Carrie & Lowell'' as one of his favorite albums of 2015.
** Jeremy of WebVideo/CinemaSins took a sin off of ''Series/ThisIsUs'' for, among another reason, its inclusion of "Death with Dignity", which he called an "incredible" song.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sufjan reportedly sent his song "Tonya Harding" to the music supervisors of ''Film/ITonya'', but they couldn't find a proper way to utilize it in the film.

--> ''For the only black kid at a Sufjan concert''

--> ''Put Sufjan[[note]]pronounced "Suhf-yahn" instead of the correct "Soof-yahn"[[/note]] Stevens on / And we'll play your favorite song\\

--> ''No live shows, cause I can't find sponsors''

--> ''Yeah so, whatcha gonna do man?''

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Songs for Christmas'' exists only in digital form or as a deluxe box-set collection (5 discs, 40 pages of liner notes, including guitar tabs and short stories, an animated music video, a poster with a full-page comic strip on the back, and stickers).

--> ''Put Sufjan Stevens on / And we'll play your favorite song\\

** Music/ChildishGambino has made an ''Illinois'' remix album (titled ''Illin-Noise''). He also mentions Stevens in the track "Fire Fly":

** In ''Series/YoureTheWorst'', Gretchen stops Sam from investing "in Sufjan Stevens's broth restaurant".

** Music/KanyeWest tweeted a photo of him listening to "Death with Dignity" on [=YouTube=]

** Mentioned in ''Literature/SimonVsTheHomoSapiensAgenda'' (the protagonist of the novel is a fan).

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: He has his own label, which he co-founded, and is normally the one writing, recording, engineering and producing his albums (although the exact percentage of his contributions varies from record to record).

** Mentioned in Literature/SimonVsTheHomoSapiensAgenda (the protagonist is a fan).

--> ''Yeah so, whatcha gonna do man?''

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: He has his own label, which he co-founded, and is normally the one writing, recording, engineering and producing his his albums (although the exact percentage of his contributions varies from record to record).

** Music/ChildishGambino has made an ''Illinois'' remix album (titled ''illi-noise''). He also mentions Stevens in the track "Fire Fly":

*** Music/KendrickLamar ("Hood Politics", sampling "All for Myself").
*** Music/MacMiller ("Donald Trump", sampled "Vesuvius").
*** Chiddy Bang ("All Things Go", sampled "Chicago").
*** Music/{{Lecrae}} ("Can't Stop Me Now", sampled "Djohariah").

** Music/SnowPatrol name-drop him in "Hands Open" ([{CriticalResearchFailure mispronouncing his name]] in the process):

** Music/SnowPatrol name-drop him in ″Hands Open″ with the lyrics, "Put Sufjan Stevens on/And we'll play your favorite song/'Chicago' bursts to life/And your sweet smile remembers you."

** Mentioned in ″Fire Fly″ by Music/ChildishGambino:
--> ''No live shows, cause I can't find sponsors
--> For the only black kid at a Sufjan concert
--> Yeah so, whatcha gonna do man?''
*** Glover has also made an ''Illinois'' remix album (titled ''illi-noise'').

--> ''No live shows, cause I can't find sponsors\\
For the only black kid at a Sufjan concert\\
Yeah so, whatcha gonna do man?''

** The soundtrack for The B.Q.E. can either be purchased as a CD / DVD combo pack (including the soundtrack album, the complete film, and a Viewmaster reel) or as a vinyl album (with an accompanying comic book).