Master Of Music St. Vincent Calls ‘American Idol’ ‘Hallelujah’ Covers ‘the Worst Thing in the World.’
The following are Annie’s exact spillage:
You know how Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah is one of the best songs ever written? Just, period. Just, it’s an absolute masterpiece it took him however many years to write. The song itself is, like, about the complication that it is to be alive — and the agony and the ecstasy and everything and all of the inherent conflict therein. Then you know how for a period of time it became a song that people would, like, cover on American Idol? People would sing it on American Idol and just be like [adopts pinched, fried vocal tone] “Haaalelujah! Halleluuuujah!” And it’s just the worst thing in the world. Like, it’s the worst thing in the world.
