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.
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