Song review, sort of

So, because of the time of year, my mother has decided that we should listen to a country music radio station (... just realized I typed country. I meant Christmas.) in the car. Eh. I guess there are worse options. And apocalyptic music isn't exactly in the spirit of the holidays. In any case, the other day a song came on that I recognized but was sort of baffled as to why it was considered a Christmas song and therefore on the Christmas music radio station. The song was some version (not sure which one specifically) of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah.' It's oddly catchy for a song that's so overtly about religious stuff, or at least seems to be. Some religious songs are rather pleasing to my ears even though I'm an atheist, which is... I don't know. Maybe it's like a devout Mormon/other denomination of Christianity but I just wanted to name drop Mormonism enjoying a kind of music that's considered subversive/unholy/I can't think of the adjective but I think there is one. So like death metal or something like that. Maybe that isn't the best example but whatever.
In any case, I had heard the song before, most recently when the lady on SNL had performed it after the election, at which time I realized it was a familiar song and that I had heard the song even before that, presumably/probably on Pandora back in the day when I used to listen to Pandora more often. It wouldn't be super surprising that such a song would have showed up; my stations mostly consisted of things based around Coldplay/The Fray/that type of mellow and usually on the depressing side of things music. 

In any case, despite the rather seemingly religious things/themes in the song, I feel like maybe it could be interpreted in a non religious way, or at the very list, a semi religious and also semi non religious way, even though it seems at the beginning to be rather cut and dry that it's a religious song. I haven't given it a ton of thought at the moment but perhaps in the future I'll develop that idea a little more. According to Wikipedia, it was used on House MD which I don't specifically remember but it would make sense; House MD always had interesting music over some of the scenes. One song that particularly stuck with me was "I Still Care For You" in... I don't remember the episode name, alas. It actually is kind of similar. Also, in the episode (which was one of the first that I watched, I think) Both Sides Now, over the last few scenes there is a cover of the song As Tears Go By which also stuck with me in that it was an interesting and nice song. 

Also, while writing this post I was listening to the song and now I think it's going to be stuck in my head. Alas. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than having Last Christmas stuck in my head, which I also heard on this Christmas music radio station. Which, incidentally, I did not know until I looked it up that the guy who sang/wrote that song is the singer George Michael, which is relevant because I have been watching Arrested Development in which the main character's son is named George Michael (Bluth).