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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-03-22

"To say that using [the Leonard Cohen song] 'Hallelujah' to express sadness is unoriginal is like saying a picture hanger using a level is unoriginal: the point is not novelty, but functionality. The damn thing just works so well, you'd be a fool not to use it." -- Michael Barthel, on use of the song in television and film soundtracks, 2007-04-26

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posted by [identity profile] starmalachite.livejournal.com at 10:16am on 2011-03-22
The same goes for Barber's "Adagio for Strings," IMO. Only cubed.
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posted by [personal profile] marnanel at 12:52pm on 2011-03-22
It's funny, but I never think of Hallelujah as a sad song, only as a resigned song.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 06:36pm on 2011-03-22
Yeah, I thought the objection to the use of "Hallelujah" in movies was that it was typically mis-used, and as such, a better tool analogy might be using a chisel to drive a screw.
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