I Feel Like This Happens Often With Music And Arts. People Only Listens To The Cute, Romantic Songs,

I feel like this happens often with music and arts. People only listens to the cute, romantic songs, or don't actually pay attention to the lyrics and the actual message, which is imo kinda disrespectful to the author.

"How sad it's that people suffers, but maybe they'll be happy even in adversity", but that's the thing. They! Shouldn't! Be! Suffering! And in the arts that can reflect at these tragic, lovely stories; but it's on us to actually think those over critically. Every story that gets told gets told for a reason. So, please, if you have the time, try to choose a random song you like and think about it. I promise it'll be worth it.

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.