The Song Behind the Song: Dive into Ferdinand Rennie's Spin on "You Wrote Hallelujah"

Ferdinand Rennie is a commercial pop artist with a gift for taking big ideas and turning them into something extraordinary! He's the kind of writer who trusts his listener, which, honestly, more people should try in a day and age where the same people are easily pleased with generic pop/rock songs.

Ferdinand Rennie

"You Wrote Hallelujah" takes two of the most iconic songs ever written (Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and John Newton's "Amazing Grace") and holds them up to the light. Cohen fought with faith and desire and doubt for years before "Hallelujah" even had a shape! Newton, a man who made his fortune in the slave trade before turning to Christianity late in life, carried so much guilt of that history straight into "Amazing Grace."

Rennie sits with both stories and finds the common thread: that the most enduring art usually comes from torment, from reckoning. That awful moment when a person stops running from what they feel and just... lets it out.

If you're the kind of person who thinks about why music exists, not just how it sounds, give Rennie's "You Wrote Hallelujah" a spin.

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