Anonymous wrote:Agree. Pachelbel's cannon is ridiculousy overused wedding music, not Christmas. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles, while elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs.

Also Pachelbel's canon was used as the theme for a big 1970s or 1980s movie, I think Ordinary People. I think that version involved bells, but I could be wrong. In any case, it's definitely been seared into the public imagination since the early 1980s.

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Anonymous wrote:That doesn't sound like a song about infidelity.

Also who cares it sounds beautiful if it reminds you of God or Christmas then so be it enjoy it.

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Cohen's Hallelujah, in addition to having a beautiful melody, is about a broken person, longing, and redemption.

It is not about redeption.

Are you familiar with the two Biblical stories that the lyrics are telling?

Both are about cheating and destroying the unsuspecting spouse.

PP with the therapist/spouse cheating situation and I was too emotionally emptied out to ever have done a close analysis but now I’m going back through this dumb song wondering if other cheating came before their cheating together. Merry Christmas to me.

Anonymous wrote:Agree. Pachelbel's cannon is ridiculousy overused wedding music, not Christmas. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles, while elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs.

There is an 90s choral song called "Christmas Canon" set to Pachelbel's Canon. That is the one that always gets played on the Christmas radio stations.

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Anonymous wrote:That doesn't sound like a song about infidelity.

Also who cares it sounds beautiful if it reminds you of God or Christmas then so be it enjoy it.

+1
Cohen's Hallelujah, in addition to having a beautiful melody, is about a broken person, longing, and redemption.

It is not about redeption.

Are you familiar with the two Biblical stories that the lyrics are telling?

Both are about cheating and destroying the unsuspecting spouse.

Agree. Pachelbel's cannon is ridiculousy overused wedding music, not Christmas. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles, while elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs.

Anonymous wrote:That doesn't sound like a song about infidelity.

Also who cares it sounds beautiful if it reminds you of God or Christmas then so be it enjoy it.

The entire song is about infidelity.

Samson and Delilah is about infidelity (the cutting the hair verse) Delilah his wife cheated on Samson, then cut his hair to destroy him, and gave him over to his lover's tribe where he ended up blinded and enslaved, destroyed by her infidelity.

The King David part (saw you bathing on the roof) in the song is about infidelity and destruction of the betrayed spouse too. David lusted after his best friend's wife Bathsheba, after seeing her bathing on a rooftop. To get rid of her husband, King David sent him off to war to the front lines so he would get killed and David could then bed Bathsheba.

The entire song is about betraying and destroying your spouse, but justifying the infidelity as righteous because the sex feels so good.

It is 100% a song about infidelity and betrayal, not redemption as someone else said.

Anonymous[b wrote:]It’s the same morons who play Born in the U.S.A. at a Republican fundraiser at a country club or at an address to U.S. troops

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uh, no it isn't. try a more intelligent post next time.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who discovered my exDH having an affair with his therapist because they were exchanging Hallelujah lyrics by email, I am 100% sure that it is not about Christmas no matter how much he tried to convince me otherwise.

Finding out how trite DH could be may have been the biggest humiliation of all.

Absolutely no one has said it's about Christmas.

The title of the thread is literally about Cohen's Hallelujah being played as a Christmas song...

Anonymous wrote:As someone who discovered my exDH having an affair with his therapist because they were exchanging Hallelujah lyrics by email, I am 100% sure that it is not about Christmas no matter how much he tried to convince me otherwise.

Finding out how trite DH could be may have been the biggest humiliation of all.

Absolutely no one has said it's about Christmas.

Get a life.

As someone who discovered my exDH having an affair with his therapist because they were exchanging Hallelujah lyrics by email, I am 100% sure that it is not about Christmas no matter how much he tried to convince me otherwise.

Finding out how trite DH could be may have been the biggest humiliation of all.

Anonymous wrote:That doesn't sound like a song about infidelity.

Also who cares it sounds beautiful if it reminds you of God or Christmas then so be it enjoy it.

+1
Cohen's Hallelujah, in addition to having a beautiful melody, is about a broken person, longing, and redemption.

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Anonymous wrote:Cohen's Hallelujah is about infidelity, so no, not a Christmas song by any stretch

Pachabel Canon is fine, particularly if it is the Christmas Canon version.

We play various versions of Hallelujah during Christmas, regardless. It's a beautiful song.

It's not Christmas music though.

I've already acknowledged that. Are you always this pedantic?

Only when the audience clearly requires it.

Bless your heart.

I also have Haim's "Hallelujah," Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Dolly Suite Op. 56 Berceuse (James Galway), and other beautiful pieces that are not actually Christmas music on my playlist.

And it's all ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Cohen's Hallelujah is about infidelity, so no, not a Christmas song by any stretch

Pachabel Canon is fine, particularly if it is the Christmas Canon version.

We play various versions of Hallelujah during Christmas, regardless. It's a beautiful song.

It's not Christmas music though.

I've already acknowledged that. Are you always this pedantic?

Only when the audience clearly requires it.