“Hi, I’m Gene Hackman, please photoshop me awkwardly onto your movie case to appeal to some mythical demographic of people who are crazy about Gene Hackman!”

Double-take

I’m watching “I’m your man” on Netflix. It’s a tribute to Leonard Cohen, who is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. I’m watching and listening, and I encounter one of my biggest pet peaves…

I HATE when singers are not content to sing a song the way it was written (chick singing with Rufus Wainright, I’m talking to you!). There’s a word for singers who can’t sing a song the way it was wrritten: “failures”. I would have also accepted “illiterate”. Thankfully I am not rabidly patriotic, because the national anthem is one of the most common targets of these failures. “Oooh, maybe I could show off what a great singer I am by adding 40 extra notes where they don’t belong”. No, you can’t.

Props to Bono however for his intelligent and meaningful comments about Cohen in this movie. He didn’t come across as a douche like he normally does.

Leonard Cohen