They signed me up for surfing but they can't get me in the choir
Ugh the campaign to get Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah to Xmas number one (and save the song from Alexandra Burke) is ridiculous. People are claiming that Alexandra Burke covering it is some kind of betrayal. But Buckley's version is actually guilty of all the crimes that people accuse Alexandra of:
* His version is full of the random wailing that people criticise in Alexandra Burke (and Leona and a million other talent show singers).
* He totally misses the irony of a song that rhymes "do ya" with "hallelujah". Cohen's songs are all part-mockery.
* Buckley's version is in Without A Trace, Ugly Betty, ER, The West Wing, House, LAX, and Criminal Minds.
* The song also appears in Shrek.
* Buckley can't swim. Even the donkey in Shrek can swim.
* Unrelatedly, last week's Weekend Guardian has an interview with the woman about whom Cohen's Suzanne was written, and she was claiming that Cohen has sold out. So everyone's a sell-out.
* His version is full of the random wailing that people criticise in Alexandra Burke (and Leona and a million other talent show singers).
* He totally misses the irony of a song that rhymes "do ya" with "hallelujah". Cohen's songs are all part-mockery.
* Buckley's version is in Without A Trace, Ugly Betty, ER, The West Wing, House, LAX, and Criminal Minds.
* The song also appears in Shrek.
* Buckley can't swim. Even the donkey in Shrek can swim.
* Unrelatedly, last week's Weekend Guardian has an interview with the woman about whom Cohen's Suzanne was written, and she was claiming that Cohen has sold out. So everyone's a sell-out.