Blog: Dirty Sexy Music

Before Christmas last year, there was a song which would often be near the top of people's all time favorite songs list. Then X-Factor came and ripped the soul out of Leonard Cohen's beautiful song. Cohen has just stated that it has been 'over performed' and Mark Beaumont (the grumpy one from the NME) has written an article about it HERE . Now whenever I here the song I can just see those gimps from JLS and that arrogant soulless diva performing it. It's a shame really. It's a genuinely beautiful song. When I first saw Shrek (I must [...]

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