[242/366] it really is what he would have wanted

[cosmolinguist]

Leonard Cohen's estate telling the Republican National Convention they could've had "You Want It Darker" if they'd asked for that instead did make me laugh. Darkly.

If you don't know the song, I highly recommend checking it out. (Lyrics available both in the video and in text at the link.) It's good anyway, but in this context...

Comments

[ironymaiden]

thanks for sharing, knowing that they offered You Want It Darker really brought a smile to my face.

[ivy]

I laughed at that part too. Also, following the link on that article about the museum exhibition, which I didn't know about until now, dang.

"A few other rooms of “A Crack in Everything” share Depression Chamber’s ingenuity. There’s an octagonal bench draped with microphones to be used for participatory humming to “Hallelujah,” and in-the-round videos of a diverse assemblage of men singing “I’m Your Man,” quavering and joyful. (One of them, a middle-aged, visibly nervous gent in a Heisenberg T-shirt, stole my heart.) Lit with jewel tones and strewn with bean bag chairs, a listening room where you can hear new Cohen covers gives off clear psychotropic vibes. Of this mostly excellent playlist, the French singer Lou Doillon’s throaty, glacial take on “Famous Blue Raincoat” is a standout, as is Julia Holter’s slightly acidic piano cover of “Take This Waltz.” Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales’ version of “Paper Thin Hotel” offers a welcome wink of louche energy, while the National collaborate with Sufjan Stevens, Richard Reed Parry, and Ragnar Kjartansson to bring an eerie doo-wop energy to “Memories.” Moby’s vaguely goth, gravelly, whistling take on “Suzanne”... also exists."

Dang! Guess the reviewer is not a Moby fan!

[eiffel_71]

Great shade thrown at the GOP! Leonard would have approved.

[otter]

I went to listen. Yes, so apt. And clever of them.

[azurelunatic]

I laughed like 100% chocolate and explained to my millennial daughter.

[crystalpyramid]

Thanks for sharing this! I hadn't heard the song.

Now trying to figure out how concerned I should be that the part my toddler wants to sing along with is "hineni".

[sfred]

Hah!

[silveradept]

It certainly would have been a more appropriate and fitting piece to use for them.