Hallelujah 'Hallelujah' was the UK Christmas number one for X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke in 2008. Amazingly, the number two song on the same charts was Jeff Buckley's version of the same song. The original, written and released in 1984, also made it into the same Top 40 chart for th...
“In those lyrics, and quite publicly in a lot of his life, [he] admits to the struggle,” Geller said. “The struggle of living a life, of the pain that’s involved, the aspiration toward beauty and meaning.” Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Songopens in theaters in New Yo...
I used textually-oriented discourse analysis (Fairclough 1992) to do a reading (Scott 1994; Stern 1989) of lyrics and explored the meaning expressed through the language of songs. Music as an expression of worship has a visual representation in the context and way it is played and performed ...
OnThe Voice, Season 12 when 26-year-oldCasi Joyof Kansas City sang the 1958 Bill Mack song”Blue” for her Blind Audition, she got all four judges to turn around. (LeAnn Rimesmade it popular again in 1997, when she won a Grammy for her version.) ForThe VoiceBattle Round, Casi perfo...
It would seem that there is nothing like mentioning the holy dove where the church itself has banned talk of the ghost in favor of the spirit, and doing so in the same context that inspired Gainsborough. kd lang's version offers an entire world, cinematic as she says, but one that as ...