Blog: Idolator

If you were Leonard Cohen , and you kept hearing how no one considers your version of "Hallelujah" to be the best one—and, trust me, most people do not—you might be tempted, on your new tour, to change the song's arrangement a bit. Make it a little more like that dead pretty boy, with chiming guitar, or more like the viola guy from that Warhol band, a little peppier and piano-driven. But did he? Well, sort of. Cohen doesn't borrow anything instrumentally, as the arrangement is [...]