Tribute live from New York- It's Saturday Night!
Kate McKinnon raises up the political message and sends us to a spiritual place.
(CNN)Instead of showing a quarreling Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton as they had done for most of the season, the opening for "Saturday Night Live" struck a more somber note.
McKinnon, dressed as her Clinton character in a cream pantsuit, played the piano and sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Cohen, the highly-respected artist known for his poetic and lyrical music, died earlier this week.
McKinnon sang the entire song to a quiet audience.
After finishing the song, she turned to the camera with watery eyes and said: "I'm not giving up. And neither should you. And live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
The episode followed a tumultuous post election week that has seen protests in multiple cities nationwide against President-elect Donald Trump.
In Saturday's episode, there were neither Trump jokes nor did Alec Baldwin make an appearance.
The show's more solemn opening struck a chord on Twitter.
Film critic Richard Roeper tweeted that McKinnon "is a superhero with the power to stop us in our tracks."
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a recording by John Cale, which inspired a recording by Jeff Buckley. It is the subject of the 2012 book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah' by Alan Light.[1]
Perhaps this flawless rendition by Kate McKinnon will be the new "We shall overcome" mantra.
(CNN)Instead of showing a quarreling Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton as they had done for most of the season, the opening for "Saturday Night Live" struck a more somber note.
McKinnon, dressed as her Clinton character in a cream pantsuit, played the piano and sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Indeed, as USAToday wrote, the cold SNL open served both as a moment of solidarity with those rocked by the election’s outcome and as tribute to Cohen, the virtuosic songwriter, who died earlier this week.
Cohen, the highly-respected artist known for his poetic and lyrical music, died earlier this week.
McKinnon sang the entire song to a quiet audience.
After finishing the song, she turned to the camera with watery eyes and said: "I'm not giving up. And neither should you. And live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
In Saturday's episode, there were neither Trump jokes nor did Alec Baldwin make an appearance.
The show's more solemn opening struck a chord on Twitter.
Film critic Richard Roeper tweeted that McKinnon "is a superhero with the power to stop us in our tracks."
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a recording by John Cale, which inspired a recording by Jeff Buckley. It is the subject of the 2012 book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah' by Alan Light.[1]
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