St. Vincent Names The Cover Song That’s “The Worst Thing In The World”

St. Vincent is in promo mode for new album All Born Screaming, and she’s got my attention today with a take that is by no means hot but certainly qualifies as accurate. Speaking to BBC Radio 2’s Jo Whiley, Annie Clark explained that the modern tendency to cover Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” without any of the original song’s nuance or complexity is “the worst thing ever,” an opinion she expressed with an appropriate amount of impassioned disdain.

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