How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Leonard Cohen’s ballad “Hallelujah” has become so inescapable that the songwriter once asked for a break from his own track. “I think it’s a good song, but too many people sing it,” he told the Guardian in 2009, agreeing with a critic who asked for “a moratorium on ‘Hallelujah’ in movies and television shows.”