Awesome post that starts with looking at the grow(ing|n) popularity of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—which you probably know as Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”—and goes on to discuss The OC, indie rock, music as lifestyle versus music as politics and a bunch of other stuff. Be sure to watch the montage video, it’s nifty. As a bonus, there are some funny bits:
While it seems clear that the gradual revision of the song is what made it appealing as a soundtrack device, it’s also possible that when directors saw that the song was so potent, it could impart gravitas on a cartoon Ogre voiced by Mike Myers, it could make even the shallowest character seem tragic.
This is the point where the OC consumes itself whole, and it is a sickeningly gorgeous thing to watch.
. . . “Hallelujah” always appears as people are being sad, quietly sitting and staring into space or ostentatiously crying, and always as a way of tying together the sadness of different characters in different places. In short, it’s always used as part of a “sad montage.”
Oh yeah, this is nearly a year old and so maybe you already read it. It was new to me, so nyah.
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I had to print this out for BART reading later but meanwhile I can’t help but throw in that the entirety of “I’m Your Fan” kicks ass. It’s worth buying just for the Pixies cover of “I Can’t Forget.” Thank you for reminding me to pull that off the shelf and put it on for the first time in like 5 years.
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