Stop 'Hallelujah' from being an X-Factor Single

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We the undersigned petition you to change the winner's song on this years X Factor to something different.

This year's X Factor winner will release a cover version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'.

This song is art, it's history and it is special to a lot of people. We heard the best version in 1994 by Jeff Buckley who has since passed away.
Letting this year's winner release another cover of this song would be deeply inappropriate, disrespectful, and I for one strongly doubt they can do the song any justice.

We strongly ask you to simply choose a different song for this year's winning artist to cover.

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  • Lucy Jane Burkitt
    • Comments
    • Please pick something else.. it will be oral murder!
  • Stephen Waters
  • Tristan O' Dwyer
    • Comments
    • This cannot happen
  • Dylan Mercer
    • Comments
    • seriously. don't do it.
  • Sian Pierpoint
    • Comments
    • Nobody could do this song justice like Jeff Buckley did. It needs to be left alone.
  • Clair Woodward
  • Joanne Pearson
  • Kate
    • Comments
    • It's a travesty!
  • Colm McDermott
  • sue keenan
  • Lee Pearce
  • Mabon Rhun Elis
    • Comments
    • Don't murder this song!
  • Daniel Rowson
  • elisha
  • Dan Willsher
  • LK
    • Comments
    • stop the madness!
  • Luke O'Reilly
    • Comments
    • Disgusting. All involved in X factor should be ashamed of themselves.
  • Michael Bass
    • Comments
    • Why not cover another pop song that a modern-influenced winner could understand, rather than a genre and feeling unknown to them?
  • Sean Wheatley
    • Comments
    • The thought of one of the X-Factor's manufactured morons murdering this masterpiece makes my blood boil. It will be the aural equivalent of turds in my drink.
  • Jonathan Hatter
  • Neil Scott
  • Jonathan Sewell
  • Hannah Flynn
    • Comments
    • Leave well alone!
  • Ian Walker
  • jon theobald
  • Alyson
    • Comments
    • No. Just no.
  • Kate
  • Benjamin Wood
  • shana squires
  • Adam Bertram
  • Derek Powell
  • John Galloway
    • Comments
    • Please...NO!!!!
  • Susana Maria Ribeiro Fernandes Antunes
  • Daniel
  • tim
    • Comments
    • just dont corrupt good music for personal gain simon
  • Simon Brookes
  • sonja mueller
  • JONATHAN FULLER
  • Simon Bull
    • Comments
    • Stop ruining great songs Cowell! YOU'RE NOT GOD!!
  • Adam nicholls
  • Martin Foster
    • Comments
    • Stick to your usual shallow c**p thanks
  • Jason Llewellyn
    • Comments
    • would be the most heinous thing this show has ever done, and that's saying something considering it's history!! and who on the programme even thinks they would have any chance of singing it??
  • Daniel Burke
  • Andy Wren
  • Stephen Tyson
  • Jennifer Parry
  • jo bradshaw
  • Max Larkins-Waugh
  • jamie richards
  • louise reed
    • Comments
    • no way should these bunch of no hopers have the priviledge of singin this song and releasin it ! ! ! !