They Need To Invent A Way Out That Isn't Through

they need to invent a way out that isn't through

(other than being a very ordinary tuesday morning in july) today feels like a new beginning, as if its new years, or the first day of something new.

- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.

- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.

- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.

- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.

- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.

when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.

we are with your friends in the audience of the artist that was the soundtrack to your life as i was falling in love with you and i have never seen you look as beautiful as you do in this moment, so unselfconscious and feeling the music so deeply.

Southcombe Gardens, Dartmoor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, England

more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls