Who doesn’t have at least one cover of the seemingly ubiquitous song “Hallelujah” in their iTunes collection, if not the Jeff Buckley version. Along with pulling the first all nighter to finish that term paper and taking PS 22: City Politics, possessing this song seems to be a near requirement of all college freshmen.
Twenty-five years ago, a character on the TV show The Young Ones named Neal–the hippie–said, “I’m beginning to feel like a Leonard Cohen record, cause nobody ever listens to me.” Today, in contrast, one particular Leonard Cohen song is featured prominently in no less than three separate episodes of teen uberdrama The OC, and can be heard in at least twenty-four separate movies and TV episodes, almost always as the soundtrack to a montage of people being sad.
What I hope to show today is how, exactly, that happened to a song called “Hallelujah.”
After reading this I simultaneously both wanted to delete my copy of this song AND listen to it as well.
5 responses so far ↓
krunkymunky // March 18, 2008 at 11:19 am |
replace them with “suzanne” by leonard cohen, and “lover you should have come over” by jeff buckley. it’s like a love song stock split.
Moye // March 18, 2008 at 2:41 pm |
i read that same article earlier. jeff buckley’s version is the best. it makes me sad.
so now i am listening to it, feeling sad. thanks a lot.
mrod // March 18, 2008 at 5:05 pm |
You’re welcome. Lets all be sad together. Hallelujah. Bah humbug.
Moye // March 19, 2008 at 2:38 pm |
we’re so eeemoooo
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