But You Don’t Really Care For Music, Do Ya?

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, one of the most covered songs of the last two decades, has been chosen as the winner’s song for this year’s edition of “X Factor,” the UK answer to “American Idol.” It seems an odd choice: “While it’s not like they’ve chosen Nirvana’s Rape Me, it still seems a bit odd that [the show’s producers] would choose a Biblical-referencing song about David shagging Bathsheba.”