Monday, October 14, 2024

Mashup: "Hallelujah" and "Baby Got Back"



The Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" has been around since 1984, but reached global notoriety when it was featured in the 2001 film Shrek. It's been used in quite a few films since then. The tune is beautiful, but the lyrics are somewhat of an an enigma, mixing biblical and sexual themes. Besides, there are many versions of those lyrics, as Cohen took five years to write them.

But Dustin Ballard, also known as There I Ruined It, took away all the ambiguity of Cohen's song by just substituting the lyrics of "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. Poetry is poetry, after all, and in this mashup, there's no question of what the song is about.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Butt....
xoxoxoBruce