The 30-Day Song Selection Spectacular: #12, A Song You Love But Can’t Bring Yourself To Listen To

Jeff Buckley, “Hallelujah”

“Hallelujah” (and its many covers) has been played in so many trailers, movies, TV shows, and, most egregiously, in *so many yoga classes*… I will never hear it with fresh ears again. A song that once moved me now seems alternately cloying and dull. “Hall-e-screw-ya”. 5-year moratorium, please.

B-side: I still love this song, and I don’t hear it much anymore, but I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d actually want to sit down and listen to it. But my friend Sandra did a karaoke version once that blew me away.

Bruce Springsteen, “Born To Run”