#NOT EVEN HOZIER COULD GET IN

[anggeese]

TABANG AHDGWHBSHSBAHSHS

[fawnforevergone]

the way hozier titles a song "i, carrion (icarian)" where he sings about the self-destructive idea of sacrificing himself by flying into sun to save his relationship, and compares himself to 'carrion', the decaying flesh of animals, often a word used for roadkill. to then go and write a song called "abstract (psychopomp)" about how holding an animal whilst it dies mirrors the mercy of ending a failing relationship, similar to a 'psychopomp' - a deliverer of death. and we watch as hozier turns from 'icarian' to 'psychopomp' when he realises that prolonging suffering is crueler than just letting love die. i'm both in awe and crying on my bedroom floor.

and the way a carrion crow is also a symbol of death ?? and how 'carrion' sounds like 'carry on' the way icarus kept going ?? and how he sounds envious of his lover's courage in "abstract" ?? how when the sun is gone - "streetlights in the dark blue" - he can no longer blind himself and is forced to look at the corpse of his relationship ?? how to love is to let go ?? how can he keep getting away with this i'm sobbing ??

[an-au-blog]

Oh, your love is sunlight

Happy (late) Valentine's Day (version without text ↓ +description in tags)

[gabriels-golden-kazoo]

Gabriel ‘I’d tell them, “Put me back in it,” darling, I would do it again’ begging his father to bring him back

Sam ‘If I could hold you for a minute, darling, I’d go through it again’ praying for the first time in years even though he knows no one will answer

[vincentsleftear]

feel like people don’t give Hozier enough credit for inventing love with his DEBUT album

[bbydeathclaw]

andrew john hozier-byrne i would like several words with you.

[volivolition]

Yoooo Voli I made ya a Electrochemistry × Volition playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19Au6o98AzOf4hEGLMHKtB?si=7kBYYWAhSR-TuLPYicpgYg&pi=a-iR4K2sFbQsWA

also I can't DM you bc you don't follow me, LEMME IN PLS :3

oh hi hello! oooh, hold on, lemme add the link so its clickable. some cool songs in here, thank you for sharing :D!!

also yeah, sorry! :'3 DMs make me nervous and uncomfortable unfortunately, and i much prefer communicating through asks and comments if thats cool!!

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

the chappell roan thing is like. no, she doesn’t owe her fans anything other than her music and her art. i’m fully on board with that mindset. her job is her music. cool. but, if that’s the case (which it is) then you have to treat that as a job. and i can’t phone up my manager two days in advance to say that due to “scheduling conflicts” i can’t make it to work. if you have booked a tour, sold out the tickets, months in advance - that tour is your job. that tour is your work. that tour is your responsibility, and you DO owe it to the people who have payed for those tickets to show up. “scheduling conflicts” is not a valid reason to cancel those shows. especially not two days in advance. music and art and performance is your job. treat it like a job. respect your fans.

[lususnatura]

🎤 🎤 🎤

a song that i associate with my muse meme!

AHH, hey, ramone!! thank you for sending in this prompt :D since you sent in three of the mic's, i shall now be treating you to three songs that make me think of blamore when i hear them / that i associate with it. an explanation of why i chose them will be in the tags <3

hozier - who we are.

icehouse - crazy.

depeche mode - personal jesus.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 17

“DYWTYLM” by Sleep Token

[pancakehouse]

i think if hozier was the one narrating sally rooney’s audiobooks that might finally get me to finish smth by her . or niall horan

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (28 Apr - 4 May 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 Bound by Contract (BootsnBlossoms & Kryptaria) - 135K, 00Q00 - pt 2 of The Marketplace AU with Bond & Q figuring out how their relationship works for them and how Alec fits all while doing semi-canonical spy shit. Such a huge fan of this series.

😍 Out of the Dead Lands (orphan_account) - "Someone is building machines that look and act like people. Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier tries to be Bucky Barnes." - 62K, stucky, very angsty with a happy ending, robots, identity porn (of a sort) - SO GOOD! (thank you, unknown author, for orphaning your work instead of deleting it.)

💖💖 +207K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

February (xoxobuckybarnes) - MCU: stucky, 5K - Steve and Bucky celebrate Valentine's Day in Wakanda

if the bad times are coming let 'em come (suzukiblu) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 9K - accidental interdimensional swap puts still recovering WS into 1940s with pre-serum Steve

Maybe Our Kind Don't Fit Round Here (Rainne) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - companion fic to above - 1940s pre-war Bucky with modern Steve

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Um, Actually - s1, e21-32

Royal Pains - s8, e1-8

Ghosts (US) - s3, e10

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s10, e1

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "The Name" (s21, e17)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Five Years in the Making" (s16, e17)

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e4-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Lost Notes - S1 Ep. 1: Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written

Dinner’s on Me - Niecy Nash-Betts

Under the Influence - Ham on Wry: Sandwich Board Advertising

Under the Influence - Cars Are The Stars: Automobile Brands in Hollywood

⭐ Lost Notes - The True Story of ‘Tainted Love’

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] SPACE CRAM: Reasonable Hoop Dreams - "The Menlo County Summer League 3X3"

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Dead Boy Detectives

Homophilia - LOL LOL OMG LOL with Steve Yockey

WikiHole - Virginia (with Lauren Lapkus, Naomi Ekperigin and Mary Holland)

Switched on Pop - Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Summer Guide

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Old Cahawba

Wild Card - Jenny Slate turns fear inside out

It's Been a Minute - How Chicago's Black press shaped America

Consider This - Judi Dench reflects on a career built around Shakespeare

Shedunnit - The Murder on the Links

Vibe Check - Every Girl Has A Good Gay

��� 99% Invisible #580 - Mr Yuk

Today, Explained - One Flu Over The Cowcow’s Nest

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Checking Into Hotel Imperial with Deborah Cohen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Idea Of You

Throughline - The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure

⭐ If Books Could Kill - "Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried

⭐ You Are Good - My Own Private Idaho w. Cecil Baldwin

Dear Prudence - My Brother Is a Budding Alex Jones. Help!

⭐ Endless Thread - Episodes We Love: Doom Jelly

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Fall Guy And What's Making Us Happy

Re: Dracula - May 3: Your Friend, Dracula

It's Been a Minute - An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

Armchair Expert - Chris Pine

Re: Dracula - May 4: The Eve of St. George's Day

Today, Explained - The tourist tax

Welcome to Night Vale #247 - Rerun

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Who

Dua Lipa

Back to the Yacht

Endless R&B Throwbacks

Hozier

[iheartmoons]

SEEING BOTH BOYGENIUS AND HOZIER THIS YEAR. fuck me i love my life.

[funsizedshark]

people reducing abstract (psychopomp) to "omg a song about roadkill" oh i know you've never had to drive on a poorly lit country road, realizing your headlights are the only thing between you and the dark inching its way on the asphalt........... feeling distinctly out of place with your monster made of metal in the middle of nature........... knowing youre just as part of nature yourself but youve chosen to distance yourself from it........... hearing your heartbeat in your ears as you grip the steering wheel, ready to swerve, knowing that if something chooses to cross the road you might not avoid them in time. knowing you have to try anyway

[theaologies]

Not to mention, at the height of the 2020 BLM movement and police brutality protests, Hozier announced that all proceeds from Jackboot Jump would go toward Black Lives Matter and the NAACP

“Words so often fail in a time like this, but where words might fall short, failing to offer them at all is far worse.

The work of Black artists has always been a guiding light for me since before the time I ever picked up a guitar or sang a note. It's fundamental importance to the canon of popular music across the globe is something I've always tried to express in interviews and in the work itself. Non-Americans and Europeans like myself so often take their first glimpse of American culture through the key hole of Black musical expression and innovation.

Like every musician who's work stems from a tradition of rock n' roll or blues, I owe a great deal to it's legacy.

In times like this it's good for everyone in the music industry to be reminded that it's not enough for us to simply pick and choose what of Blackness is worthy of our attention. It's not enough for predominantly white societies to enjoy the benefits of those gifts only to turn the other way when the realities of the system they were made under cause us to feel uncomfortable. What's more, Black communities cannot be expected to dismantle the racist systems that were built by the societies they have been violently dispossessed by time and time again. Meaningful action is required from those who are afforded such incredible privilege within those same systems if true lasting change is to ever take place.

I have always worn my heart on my sleeve when it came to being asked questions on issues of injustice, historical or otherwise. Anyone who knows me well understands I'm often reluctant to offer visibility on efforts I lend towards causes I believe in, for fear that it should come across as shallow or performative. That said, I so understand the need for proactive and visible outspokenness when it is precisely silence that has failed Black people time and time again.

Over the past week I have been having discussions with trusted activists at home in Ireland, looking for ways that I can better lend myself to the efforts of dismantling racist systems here in my own country. Irish society has a great deal to reflect upon with regard its own problems with racism and how it manifests in institutions here, be it anti-Black racism, or the often ignored issues of anti-Traveller racism that is tolerated here day to day. These are things that require the commitment of white settled people if they are to be truly addressed.

There is so much to reflect upon in this moment, to educate ourselves on and learn how we can be better allies, citizens, neighbours and friends. There is so much to contront and, as necessity dictates, to be confronted by. There is so much to dismantle and there is so, so much to build.

I will be pledging further donations to Black Lives Matter, The NAACP, The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, and Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre.

Further more, as footage of ongoing police brutality continues to make its way across the water and cause us revulsion on this side of the Atlantic, I'll be diverting all royalties from the song 'Jackboot Jump' to Black Lives Matter and NAACP in perpetuity. Beidh an bua agaibh.

Le Grá Mór

Andrew H Byrne”

So if you need another reason to stream/buy it, there you go

🙃 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.

[your-humble-host]

The ungodly urge to learn how to video edit to make my own fandom videos.