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    Sufjan Stevens Pens A Quiet Song For 'Feisty, Fierce' Figure Skater Tonya Harding

    Sufjan Stevens loves complicated heroes who, for better or worse, represent something unmistakably American. His latest ode is to figure skater Tonya Harding.
    by Lars Gotrich Dec 06, 2017 1 minute
    Artwork for Sufjan Stevens' "Tonya Harding" single.

    "I've been trying to write a Tonya Harding song since I first saw her skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1991," Sufjan Stevens writes about his new single. Submitted for the starring Margot Robbie (but not used in the film), it is a quintessentially quiet song for a figure who was "feisty, fierce, and full of athleticism."

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