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" ... As a musician I use it as a reference point. It's probably because of the age Sara and I were but I use it as a reference point of understanding how much influence music has on people. And for Sara and I it was just the first show I saw with gay representation, with people in our age group. The only gay people I sort of knew of when I was a kid were k.d. lang and Melissa Etheridge and they were decades older than us. And they were awesome, but when you're a teenager you want to see someone that looks like you. So to finally see Ricky, who was the closest thing we had at that point...but to be honest, it wasn't even about Ricky, who was gay, it was about Claire Danes. It was that she had a friend like that. And maybe we were projecting, "Well Claire Danes is so cool, Angela Chase is me, but actually Angela Chase loves someone who is queer and different and Rayanne is weird and different, they're all so cool, so I'm okay." I think it was my first time really feeling okay about the person I was about to become. But as I went through high school that was the one show we watched. We obsessively would watch the VHS tapes. Our stepdad helped us set up the VCR to tape every episode. We had all the tapes and we watched them over and over again. And it was how we discovered Cranberries, Buffalo Tom and all these bands. I think, for me, it helped to shape my identity as a musician, an alternative girl in an alternative group of friends. I think it had such a profound effect on our group of friends too. And my walls were covered in men and not necessarily because I was sexualizing them. I was obsessive about male musicians, but Courtney Love and Claire Danes were allowed in my room on my walls (laughs). ... "
" ... Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley heard “Hallelujah” on the homage album and sang it on his own debut CD, and then it was heard and was covered by the likes of k.d. lang, Jon Bon Jovi, Bono and many others, including singers on TV song contests internationally. It also got a major boost when Rufus Wainright sang it on the soundtrack of the animated hit film Shrek. But Light shows that the song’s arc from Cohen to Cale to Buckley and into pop culture glory wasn’t exactly symmetrical—Bob Dylan deserves credit as the first big-time artist to “discover” the song, performing it in concerts even before Cale gave his rendition. ... "