By far the most heart wrenching but also the most incredibly wonderful and powerful part of this concert for Chester Bennington is how they handled Numb.
The band played and a spotlight shown on a microphone stand, all alone. The band didn’t sing. But the crowd picked up the words and sang the song, and it only grew more powerful with each moment.
This was by far the best tribute the band could have given: no one could do that song justice without Chester, so they gave it to the fans.
Rest In Peace, Chester. Thank you for your music, it helped keep me alive.
it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired
THAT IS EXACTLY WHY
I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
um woah
They did those lines in Sing!
Leonard Cohen wrote literally over 80 verses for the song. Each of the over 300 (!) versions has maybe 5-7 of those verses, gleaned from copies of Cohen’s notes. Mixing and matching those verses is totally okay (Cohen himself said he liked the combo of verses Jeff Buckley chose more than the ones he originally recorded). What is not okay and what will never be okay is changing the words in those verses in any fundamental way to change the meaning. Reworking “remember when I moved in you/and the Holy dove was moving too” to come from the perspective of the receptive sexual partner? Totally chill. Changing the intrinsically Jewish nature of “well maybe there’s a god above” in any way? I’ll fucking stab you with the bobby pin holding my yarmulke on.
Lin-Manuel Miranda said in an interview that he wrote the song “You’re Welcome” for Maui once he knew the character would be voiced by Dwayne the rock Johnson because he thought that Dwayne the rock Johnson would be the one person on earth who could sing something so egotistical and have us completely convinced we should be thanking him and honestly he’s not wrong.
This just further proves my theory that he added in the “Maui can do everything but float” line knowing that people will be making the pun about “the reason floating is the only thing Maui can’t do is because he’s The Rock”.
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
this actually made me cry with joy also one of them is eating noodles
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
Bringing this back. I think this video could singlehandedly bring about world peace.
yes must reblog again. unmute this. it makes me so happy. i’m crying! there’s one with a rubber ducky on his head! and another one juggling!! pass me a tissue sobs
Steel Phoenix Studios 