Thank you. I do like the melody, but too much of it is a bit cloying. I’m glad you spoke up because most people do like it. I feel a bit as if we’re in the minority.
I guess my overall description of it is “sappy and insipid”. And when the artists sing it, they’re oh-so-solemn and hokey. LOL!
It was never written as a Christian song. Not even a Jewish song. It’s a song written by Leonard Cohen. I think many people decided that because the chorus was “Hallelujah” that it must be Christian, but it never was.