Is Alexandra Burke's version of "Hallelujah" a disgrace to the original?

"Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" could be first to occupy top two slots in UK charts. The No 1 spot is all-but-certain to go Alexandra Burke, who won ITV's X Factor final last week and whose cover of Hallelujah has already been downloaded more than 150,000 times since Saturday evening.

"second place is almost within the posthumous grasp of Jeff Buckley. The American singer-songwriter, who drowned in 1997, recorded what some believe to be the definitive version of Cohen's Old Testament-informed love song for his 1994 album Grace.

"Such is the awe in which Buckley's cover is held that horrified fans from all over the world embarked on a campaign to get it to No 1 as soon as it emerged that Hallelujah would be released as a single by the X Factor winner", Gurdian