A fresh version of a sometimes ' too much used ' hit. And the arrangement really serves the melody. King Singers and young ladies, you did it. Hallelujah !!!
DAMN! That's one of the most intense versions of Hallelujah I've ever heard. And the climax into the last verse blew me through the wall. Well done ladies and gentlemen!
LeftLib, i love our Canadian First Nations ideas that what we do is affected by 7 generations past and in turn will affect 7 generations to come... so maybe Mr. Cohen, having heard this wherever he is, indeed does a big smile on his face and two thumbs up...thanks +++to all the singers and arranger.
UGH!!! He was a despicable person. Why do people MINDLESSLY sing this ungodly song using the glorious word of HALLELU-YAH...which means PRAISE YAH!!❣🙌❣ Psalm 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise YAH: ❣🙌❣ Psalm 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise YAH. Praise ye YHWH.❣🙌❣ 😭 It’s a bit facile to say, “Some feelings may have been hurt, but everyone involved was a consenting adult.” The children involved were crushed. Layton, Cohen’s friend, recalls that all the children in a family Cohen knew on Hydra died off one by one, via suicide or alcohol or drugs. She looks back: It was the days of open marriage, whatever the hell that was. I don’t think it ever was successful with anybody. One of the partners was always jealous and angry and hurt and confused. I don’t know any child who came out of it not damaged by that period. We just wanted to do it all, take drugs and f*** around. . . . The children were just - they came along on the ride. They didn’t want to come along on that ride. Marianne’s son, Axel, was an infant when his mother and Cohen were living together on Hydra. As a boy, he found himself dumped in a boarding school in Canada when his mother went back to the island. Broomfield’s film shows us the plaintive, sad postcards he used to send his mother daily, begging for her love. As an adult, he dabbled in drugs, went silent for long periods of time, and wound up being institutionalized for most of his life. news.yahoo.com/leonard-cohen-male-feminist-mistreated-103048828.html
Horrific. The song is about relationships, sex, and a deep look into one's own bad behavior as a step to redemption. The "hallelujah" refered to is the cry of orgasmic climax. There is nothing about god or religion as a subject, it does use religion as metaphor. Add to that misunderstanding the idea of a silky smooth chorus where it is one man's cry of pain and regret and you get meaningless goo.
Chimera is right, though. This is Leonard Cohen, and it’s dark, bitter and ambiguous. It’s a long way from being a song in praise of Our Lord And Saviour as some posters have said. It’s why I love it as a song, and why so many of the interpretations I have heard fail to satisfy. But it’s far from meaningless goo, as well. Perhaps it’s a bit too smooth and polished (although the Kings Singers find it hard to do anything else, which is why they are delightful) but it’s a magnificent arrangement and, with the exception of a couple of the female soloists, well and powerfully sung. The world is big enough for Cohen’s gravelly imperfection and this version, surely. Although the world will never be big enough for the syrupy and bland version by Pentatonix. Now THAT is goo.
