I feel like the recurring theme of Hozier's works is "We are fucked. But might as well enjoy the intercourse while we're here, right?" And I'm all for it.
need people to expand their understanding of hozier’s music beyond the fact that they’re love songs. not only are the songs he writes love songs but they’re songs of revolution, of faith, devotion, and most importantly, of anticolonialism.
"Hold me like water. Or christ, hold me like a knife", he put it into words the need the human desperation to be held and chosen and wanted and just be in your lovers arms to be chosen either way to submit to them no matter how they want you, to choose it no matter what, as long as it's them, as long as they want you.
hozier really makes albums that are just like: here’s a song about how love is tragic love is death love is torturous oh but also it is the sustenance of life and we find reasons to endure all of that because we find another person who makes it wortwhile and there is beauty in the grip of love. now here’s a song with heavy social commentary on bigotry and corruption and western colonization and the death of languages and how fucked the world is sometimes oh but also we must build revolutions and fight back and there are countless who do and who have over time and there is hope, so much hope, hope of our own making that what is good and just will prevail. now here’s a song about nothing lasts and existence is futile but also god is it precious, so precious, and we must seize it by the neck and run with it. now here’s a song about transcendence and also would you love me if I were a worm? oh now here’s another song about love and death. and by the way I’m going to form a cohesive narrative throughout the album by taking inspiration from famous literary works, mythology, and concepts. no there are no breaks or intermissions in my album, no room to breathe at all. what do you mean you have whiplash. what is that.
do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness love i still carry for you, that i’d walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you. if you even care.
Brown albums that explore the circle(s) of hell and mediate on themes of loss and love, all the while giving you full body chills because of haunting vocals and production that they are composed of >>>>>
AND ALL THINGS END. ALL THAT WE INTEND IS SCRAWLED IN SAND. AND SLIPS RIGHT THROUGH OUR HAND. AND JUST KNOWING THAT EVERYTHING WILL END. SHOULD NOT CHANGE OUR PLANS. WHEN WE BEGIN AGAIN
when taylor swift said “and I never saw you coming, and I’ll never be the same” and boygenius said “I never thought you’d happen to me” and hozier said “all my dreamin’ is only put to shame, all my dreamin’ has only been given a name” and when keshi said “never thought that I’d find that the one in my life would be so near and now you’re here” and when gracie abrams said “you came out of the blue like that, I never could have seen you coming” and when julie andrews sang “nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could, so somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good” and when maggie rogers sang “came in like a vision from the west wind, like a bright new dream I was stepping in” and oh yeah, so love can and does really take you by surprise huh 😭