Thursday, May 6, 2010

Hallelujah

With the news of the 'first' country singer to 'come out' I need to remind the world that someond did it before her and did it better years ago. k.d. lang is a national treasure and I only need to direct you to her performance of this song from the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Just close your eyes and let her give you goosebumps all over again. Still gets to me no matter how many times I have heard it.

7 comments:

Amy said...

Not only does closing your eyes allow you to more deeply appreciate the song, it saves you from having to look at her ugly white man-suit.

JK. LOVE YOU KD!

Laura said...

Yeah!
when I heard about this today I was like.. WTF??? kd lang did this YEARS ago people.
Glad that it wasn't just me thinking it!
I loved that whole album of cover songs that she did that included Hallelujah. Can't remember the title.. something from the 49th Parallel. I have it somewhere around here. :)

((Hugs))
Laura

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

You are right AMY, she did have that David Byrne/Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense' vibe going on there didn't she.

Nomad said...

Told you.

Ravyn said...

Absolutely love this song (along with Ave Maria - and I'm not a religious person!) but just beautiful. She did a fabulous job but I had to close my eyes because I couldn't help but think that she looked like actor Rob Schneider. LOL Thanks for posting it.

Wings1295 said...

One of those times when the voice and the song just meshed so perfectly. I think her voice has gotten better over the years, and that is saying something, cause she was great to begin with!

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

Like I said in my post - GOOSEBUMPS