"I didn’t really have the mental capacity to write my own music. This stuff felt wholesome and pure and safe": Sufjan Stevens on producing John Legend's album of children's music

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In what's likely to be 2024's least expected collaboration, indie-folk maven Sufjan Stevens and soulful crooner John Legend have linked up for an album of children's music called My Favorite Dream.

In an interview with the LA Times, Legend revealed that the idea for the album was sparked when he performed one of the songs from his daughter's Fisher-Price play mat in a viral video shared by his wife, Chrissy Teigen. “People were like, ‘John, why don’t you do more of these?’” he says. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, why don’t I?’”