If you wanted to know why, the headline says it all read all about it here. But that’s not what’s interesting. What is fascinating is how burnt out that song is. More specifically how spent and ineffective the 1994 Jeff Buckley version is ( Leonard Cohen wrote and recorded the original on the album Various Positions for Columbia Records in 1985 ). For the record, it’s a great version of that song, but as the good people at clapclap.org have pointed out TV and Films abuse of that song over the last 10 years or so have rendered it almost devoid of any and all sentiment.
Start here for the “Sad” Montage and crimes against music supervision.
Josh Schwartz creator of The O.C used the Buckley version twice in one season and once in another ( during a pivotal moment where a main character dies). According to ClapClap.org the featurette of the O.C makes no mention of this song while discussing how influential the show is on the indie scene. Perhaps they did not mention this track that they lean so heavily on to let the audience know a character is expressing sadness because the shit is actually is cliche.
After the Virgina Tech shooting I was asked to needle drop a memorial to the victims. The producers wanted to use the Buckley version of Hallelujah. Sad, right? I did manage to impress upon the producers that we should dig a little deeper in the crate to find another song that would express appropriate emotion. The memorial did not air but the point being is we did find ANOTHER song.
