š 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.
Momentās Silence is about oral sex but itās 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 civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.
Be specifically criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.
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 prioritizes 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 Hozierās music, youāre missing such an important part of his work.
Thanks, ā¬ļø is a much better explanation of Foreignerās God than my off the cuff mention
Specifically!! Thereās been some theorizing that Iāve seen about the woman that is continually referenced in Foreignerās God possibly referring to Ćriu, whoās sort of the goddess of the land and so is often used as a personification of Ireland itself. Personally, I think treating this as the case brings a lot of depth to the aforementioned message of the song as a loss of connection to your culture (which is intentionally perpetrated by outside forces).
Wrt stronger themes between Foreignerās God and Butchered Tongue Iāll just say that the line that breaks me every time I listen to Foreignerās God is the āall that Iāve been taught and every word Iāve got is foreign to meā line. Because like. The British tried so so hard to absolutely eliminate the Irish language. And they came so close to achieving that goal. Which is probably why the Butchered Tongue lines of āYou may never know your fortune / Until the distance has been shown / Between what is lost forever / And what can still be knownā also hit me so hard.
And Iād be remiss if I didnāt mention (because itās not the most well-known piece of history) how Eat Your Young is a direct allusion to Jonathon Swiftās āA Modest Proposalā which was a satirical essay written during the Irish Famine to criticize the British attitude toward the Famine which was essentially justā¦ to let the Irish die and say good riddance as they did so. But also! On a larger scale, it critiqued a lot of the mercantilist attitudes of the day - citizens (especially lesser ones like the Irish were to the British) were considered little more than a commodity as laborers more than anything else and laborers included children. Some of that should likely start sounding familiar. Although the perception of child labor has certainly changed since the 18th century, the philosophy of prioritizing short-term profit over what is likely the greater good isnāt one that seems to have changed among the capitalistic elite, as OP pointed out.
i honestly dont think Iāve willingly used a chatbot sinceā¦.. cleverbot in 2012. i genuinely dont know why so many people care about this ai bullshit. sorry im with the boomers on this one. i need human creation, emotion, and thought to be interested, pal
Plus since ChatGPT is sanitized you could never get interactions like these
Does the “I’m gonna get a good grade in” person know the impact they’ve had. Do they know they did in fact got a good grade in post, something that’s both normal to want and possible to achieve,
