The latest series of TV show The X-Factor has just come to an end, and I have to admit to mixed feelings about the choice of song for the ‘winner’s single’.

I think Hallelujah is a genuinely beautiful song, and given that its creator, Leonard Cohen, had his retirement fund nicked by his (then) manager, it’s a good thing that he’ll benefit from the royalties, but… well, I’m pretty sure that it’ll be so heavily played in the next few weeks that it’ll end up like ‘that Bryan Adams Robin Hood song’.

To be fair, the rendition of it by the winner, Alexandra, isn’t bad at all (and is certainly better than the version by the runners-up), but I think my favoured performance remains that by KD Lang, which you can see and hear here.

Anyway, I like the irony of the third line of the song (quoted above) in a song performed by the winner of X-Factor…