> Shortly after Shrek's success, Cale ran into Cohen at a Starbucks in Hollywood, where the two had consequently relocated. "I said, 'Well, I guess we did a good thing there,'" Cale recalls of the meeting. "I asked him, 'How many versions of 'Hallelujah' are there? How many can there be?' He said, 'Well, it's all your fault, you know.' And I said, 'Oh no, everybody's found something great in it because every verse has a different aspect of somebody's character.' I then told him I couldn't sing some of them because they were too religious for me, and he said, 'Yeah, you take what you find useful.'"
I will suggest listening to the Matthew Schuler cover - https://youtu.be/r6KrhD8Ts7c and see how it was inspired by Cohen's version rather than Cale's version (and Schuler's background as a church choir singer is there rather than a singer songwriter background).
> Shortly after Shrek's success, Cale ran into Cohen at a Starbucks in Hollywood, where the two had consequently relocated. "I said, 'Well, I guess we did a good thing there,'" Cale recalls of the meeting. "I asked him, 'How many versions of 'Hallelujah' are there? How many can there be?' He said, 'Well, it's all your fault, you know.' And I said, 'Oh no, everybody's found something great in it because every verse has a different aspect of somebody's character.' I then told him I couldn't sing some of them because they were too religious for me, and he said, 'Yeah, you take what you find useful.'"
I will suggest listening to the Matthew Schuler cover - https://youtu.be/r6KrhD8Ts7c and see how it was inspired by Cohen's version rather than Cale's version (and Schuler's background as a church choir singer is there rather than a singer songwriter background).