"John Wayne Gacy, Jr" by Sufjan Stevens from Illinois (2005)
Sufjan Stevens' profile of infamous murderer John Wayne Gacy, Jr. is minimalist in its use of strings and piano but paints a vivid portrait of the intimate details of Gacy's life. Sufjan's soft singing bounces back between whispers and cries to demonstrate a near-sympathetic view of secrets and double lives. Though Gacy clearly went to an unimaginable extreme, do we not all hide behind a veil of some sorts?
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