"
Hallelujah" is the second single from
rock band
Paramore's second album
Riot!. The single peaked at #139 on the
UK Singles Chart. The song is not to be confused with the
Leonard Cohen song of the same name, although on the
Final Riot! summer 2008 tour, lead singer
Hayley Williams performs an extract, accompanied by lead guitarist, Josh Farro.
This song has two versions; the first one is the demo which got
filtered and by that reason Hayley put all of her effort to make the new
song better.
Music video
The video, directed by
Big TV!,
was officially released on July 30, 2007. The video appears as a photo
montage of backstage and live performance photos, with the lyrics of the
song written in the spaces between the photos. The video will zoom in
and out on some of the photos. When the photo fills the entire screen,
the photo will be revealed to actually be a short video clip, and the
video clip will play. The video was shot at
Rocketown in Nashville, USA when the band were playing their Riot! tour, even though the music is playing over the concert performance.
Single release
A CD single and two 7" vinyls were released in the UK on 10 September
.
| 1. |
"Hallelujah" |
3:19 |
| 2. |
"When It Rains (Demo Version)" |
3:23 |
| 1. |
"Hallelujah" |
3:19 |
| 2. |
"Decoy" |
3:17 |
In other media
The song was featured in an episode of the
British television
soap opera Hollyoaks in October 2008 ("
Misery Business"
was also used in another episode in March 2008 and then later "Born for
This" in September 2008). The song was also featured twice (once as a
string quartet version) on the
fourth season of
So You Think You Can Dance.
Cover versions
The Rusty Pipes covered an a cappella version of the song (including
Leonard Cohen's song of the same name) at their 13th Annual Pipe-A-Thon
on December 12, 2009, and posted it on their YouTube channel on January
24, 2010.
The Vitamin String Quartet covered this song along with other Paramore songs, which were released as a downloadable album.
Release history
