Hallelujah – three ways and more

This is an amusingly dated clip of Hallelujah from a much younger Leonard Cohen.

I love reading the comments on these things*:

Girl415: horrible! This guy completely ruined one of my favorite songs!
xxGOBxxBLUTHxx: am I the only one who thinks he looks a little bit like Jeff Goldblum?
firefly1n: he wrote it yah douche
dalekthay1010: nearly made me cry
Khorney: I agree

Of course, there’s the famous Jeff Buckley cover. But I’m rather fond (surprise, surprise) of Rufus Wainwright’s. Here he is in Central Park (and you can also check out this Irish TV one):

Again the comments, this time on Rufus’ sexuality:

twinklewonderkid91: Yep, he is gay. He came out in his teens i think.
fruzsimano: What a waste… for the ladies I mean.
I like this song.

He is dishy but if he wasn’t gay he’d probably go and do something really boring like marrying a supermodel like Jack White and well, that would have been a waste* (though not on Jack White’s part – glad he’s off the market… shudder).

And here’s KD Lang doing the Hallelujah thang…

*In a sick, sad way. XKCD, as always, has a comic on the quality of YouTube comments. I have a theory that they are from the same people that comment on the Sydney Morning Herald blogs.