Hallelujah (“...I will find you and I will kill you...”)
October 9, 2020 7:42 AM Subscribe
In which Laura Currie gives a beautiful, soft rendition, ukulele of Hallelujah, though with lyrics from a much-quoted scene from the movie "Taken". Laura's YouTube channel contains more.
Got a bit of free time on your hands, Wordshore? Good post; glad I never saw that movie.
posted by Bella Donna at 9:21 AM on October 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Bella Donna at 9:21 AM on October 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Lucky you, it's a misogynist revenge fantasy made even more troublesome by it's popularity. The people who can watch that and think it's cool scare me. This is the main i-am-very-badass speech in the movie I imagine them practicing in the mirror. So recontextualising it in this manner, putting this frame around it, really defuses the testosterone and highlights it's absurdity.
Now edit the sound effects in John Wick to 100% kazoo.
posted by adept256 at 10:07 AM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
Now edit the sound effects in John Wick to 100% kazoo.
posted by adept256 at 10:07 AM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
came here to hate this because, Halle-fuckin-Lujah -- who needs another version?
Except it works. It's hilarious. I am now open to any cover of Hallelujah that retro-fits the lyrics with macho revenge/threat aburdities.
posted by philip-random at 11:54 AM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
Except it works. It's hilarious. I am now open to any cover of Hallelujah that retro-fits the lyrics with macho revenge/threat aburdities.
posted by philip-random at 11:54 AM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
came here to hate this because, Halle-fuckin-Lujah -- who needs another version?
Agreed, considering Cortex already recorded the definitive ukulele version years ago.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 12:03 PM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
Agreed, considering Cortex already recorded the definitive ukulele version years ago.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 12:03 PM on October 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
Hallelujah feat. Maple the Dog
I watched that whole channel this week and Maple is such a good girl.
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 1:25 PM on October 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I watched that whole channel this week and Maple is such a good girl.
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 1:25 PM on October 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I am a big fan of hallelujah, multiple versions, including the ones posted above; Amanda Jensen’s flawed, sincere version from Sweden’s 2007 season of Idol; the version from Rufus Wainwright; from Regina Spector; from k.d. lang. I love this song. Even without the original lyrics, as it turns out. Who knew?
posted by Bella Donna at 1:52 PM on October 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Bella Donna at 1:52 PM on October 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I love Hallelujah even with all the versions. So so so sick of all the "Sad Hallelujahs" though.
This is good and fits right in to my sincere belief that Leonard Cohen was writing a very funny dis track that nearly everyone misinterprets.
Yes, Cohen is good enough that the song contains multitudes. But what Cohen wrote and sang has one of the funniest and most devastating putdowns and is overall uplifting damnit!
posted by jclarkin at 10:58 AM on October 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is good and fits right in to my sincere belief that Leonard Cohen was writing a very funny dis track that nearly everyone misinterprets.
Yes, Cohen is good enough that the song contains multitudes. But what Cohen wrote and sang has one of the funniest and most devastating putdowns and is overall uplifting damnit!
posted by jclarkin at 10:58 AM on October 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
She does, indeed, have certain skills.
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 3:43 PM on October 11, 2020
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 3:43 PM on October 11, 2020
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