Irish-uwufication is so fucking weird anyway but like people act like Hozier - who writes primarily blues songs about politics, books and music he finds interesting, and having sex with hot women he picks up in bars - is just a nature man is so weird. Like you have Americans saying he is a bog man, he only writes acoustic songs about chaste love and nature. He lives in the woods and doesn’t interact with society at all. He is made of trees and fairies because that’s what Ireland is.
filmed a toktik for the first time in several months lol, that one hozier lyric was fucking infecting my brain I think.
but in the middle of the night i was beamed upside the head with the following lyric change:
So the original metaphor of being undeserving of a love you think you'll ruin becomes a metaphor for a cloying love you're too afraid to break away from, too afraid to hurt the other party
would appreciate the clickthrough to kick the algorithm in the shins but I fully understand if you're not touching that app with an 11 foot pole
"the line about the tsa in his new ep sounds weird he shouldn't be referencing modern day. i can't not imagine him in the woods-" killing you with my laser pew pew pew pew shut the fuck up shut upppppppp hozier is a real person in the modern day stop romanticizing Irish people like some fae forest amalgamation they're a real modern culture with real modern issues let hozier exist in the modern day i get it he has great songs for that wood-dark-fantasy-romantic aesthetic but let him be a well-rounded person with well-rounded music references and lyrics and topics it's weird that you can't handle anything otherwise
I’m thinking about how Wasteland, Baby was a call to action and a tongue-and-cheek acceptance of the end of the world. And how Eat Your Young and Unreal Unearth are about the nine circles of Hell, about the afterlife, about the consequences after death. I’m thinking about one album cover being under water and another being buried under earth, about NFWMB “ain’t it like thunder under earth the sound it makes”, about Unreal Unearth and unearthing something, un-burial, about Like Real People Do “what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth.”
I’m thinking Eat Your Young, about Kronos’ mythology, about hunger for and to keep power, about gluttony. I’m thinking about Swan Upon Leda, about the lust Zeus had for Leda, about the greed of man over bodies, about who is the sinner. I’m thinking about angels, about their lack of power in Swan Upon Leda “could never belong to angels”, about their fall from grace in the “Unknown” song “I thought you were like an angel/going unknown as any angel/you called me angel.”
"too sweet is clearly about hades and persephone" shut up shut up shut UP SHUT UP.
Too Sweet is literally his most straight forward song to date. Not every hozier song has to be about greek mythology. Let this man just speak his mind without mindgames for ONCE.