Song · Sufjan Stevens
“Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens
Released 2017
“Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2018 and 2025. It was first released in 2017. Its best result is #78 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #448 indie & aaa song of 2018.
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Sufjan Stevens wrote "Mystery of Love" for Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino's 2017 film, after turning down the director's first request, which was for him to narrate the picture. Handed full creative control, he drew on the script and on André Aciman's novel, and came back with an acoustic ballad of quiet wonder whose words trace a romance that mirrors Elio and Oliver's, with nods to Oregon, birds and Christianity along the way. It came out on 1 December 2017.
In the film it plays as Elio and Oliver go hiking in Bergamo, it also ran in the trailer, and it shares the soundtrack with two more Stevens songs, "Futile Devices" and "Visions of Gideon". Critics mostly warmed to it, and it picked up nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 78 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 419 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
Also listed as: Mystery Of Love.
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