#and i love hozier too

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

its time for me to shout about more obscenely good omens coded songs that aren't written by queen or hozier to spice up your playlists, here we go!

(oh, and you can see my general fictional characters (but 98% good omens) and ineffable divorce playlists here-- always being edited so send me more recs!)

Another Place- Bastille

Cabo- Ricky Montgomery

No One Knows Us- BANNERS

Silent Film- Sparkbird

You Could Start A Cult- Niall Horan

Dear Sam- TROY

Part Time Lover- Nicky Youre

Perfectly Broken- BANNERS

Some Girl- Andy Grammer

Sinner- Andy Grammer

and that's the audio limit! I'll definitely be making more posts like this because while I very much love queen and hozier, it's fun to add to the playlists with some other stuff sometimes :)

[its-a-show-stoppin-number]

me after looking at a Harvey (Stardew Valley) fanart for a solid 10-15 minutes:

[chronicowboy]

an underrated hozier tweet

[vinnventure]

can't get over the lyric "sweet as a grape / if you can sit in a barrel / maybe i'll wait"

the implication that the only way that the narrator and his love could share in their approach to life is if his love were to be crushed, pressed, aged... made into a wine. something that can be indulged in. more bitter. but fresh from the vine they're too sweet.

[icarusredwings]

Thinking about that one post that was like

"Wade and logan spending multiple life times worth together, going through absolutely everything together to the point seperating them would just be plain cruel because of how soul tagged they are with each other and this just so happens to be the universe where they alone outlive everyone theyve ever known time and time again, so here they are, alone, but in each others arms in an old canadian moutian cabin, their front lawn looking like a grave yard with how many loved ones they kept with them. Theyre both old, wades wrinkles are just the light of this white manned beasts life and yet, they put collars on one another in the most caring and adoring way, caressing one anothers cheeks as Logan gives him not only the best 10 life times but also the gift no one else could bare to give him. Death. Unseathing his claws into his chest as quick as he can. And Wade to him, a knife stabbed critically. The best gift you can give your lover who can't die is the best life, yes, but a peaceful and coddled death is the ultimate goal. To lay there, bleeding out without a care in the world as Logan memorizes those pearl like eyes, and wade imprints the small smirk he has into his memory for eternity.'

And then someone reposted with two skeletons holding each other?

To that, I pitch after the last kiss Wade will ever give him, He smiles, because he knows he's made Wade as happy as humanily possible. Laying there for years or for hours, they're unsure. But they do know one thing.

"See ya at home, bub." He tells him with his last breath, an ungodly amount of blood gushing out the side of his mouth. But he's not sad. No, no neither of them are. They're relieved. Logans last act of service was bringing Wade Home. The place he never really felt right because he knew he was supposed to be dead by now.

And they'd find them in a week.

After the buzzards get loud.

After the insecets have made their claim.

After the foxes has had their taste.

After the raven has had it's say.

Id be home with you, I'd be home wih you.

Id be home with you.

I'd be Home

with

You.

[bibibitchery]

[doctorsiren]

“I’d rather take my whiskey neat, my coffee black, and my bed at three.”

[ravenzer]

Hozier heard about morning people and went

Respectfully,

✨️NO✨️

[lifemod17]

Hozier and producers celebrating the success of Too Sweet

🎥: Bekon | instagram

June 2024

and a gif of one of his peak Some Fuckin Guy™ moment

[austin-friars]

it just occurred to me that one of the most famous, folk singers in the world centers his romantic and whimsical music around black women. this is about hozier. from too sweet, to nina cried power, to work song, to jackie and wilson, etc., the center is always a black woman, speaking about a black woman, loving a black woman, etc. and that is just special to me. hardly anyone has any love for black women in media, and it's just so jarring yet lovely that the one man who makes lovely, poetic, whimsical music for black women just happens to be a white Irish man. But when you really get down to it, that's not surprising at all

and why is this important, because in media and society black women are universally unloved and just not treated with any form of dignity or not seen as desirable.

Hozier isn't just a singer he is a poet, and the way his lyrics, style, music process, etc., is so deeply intertwined with blackness but specifically black women...it's just something i can never stop thinking about.

[madbard]

I just realized another reason I love Hozier’s music. It’s not just that the lyrics are complex, or the music itself is beautiful - it’s that Hozier is a musical liar.

Take Cherry Wine. This is a song about an abusive relationship, told from the perspective of someone very much in love with their abuser. Throughout the song, the narrator describes their lover’s cruelty. Lyrics like “I walk my days on a wire” and “open hand or closed fist would be fine” make the darker aspects of their relationship all too evident. At points, the song suggests that they are defending this relationship to someone else who cares about them (“it looks ugly but it’s clean. Oh mama, don’t fuss over me”) and even the more beautiful and seemingly romantic lines later in the song (“oh but she loves like sleep to the freezing”) have dark undertones (what else is sleep to the freezing but death?) Still, I often come across the song being used in a wholesome, romantic context. A lot of factors contribute to this, but I would argue that this song mainly gets mistaken for a romantic song because of how soft and gentle the music is - it presents as a sweet love song in every way except the lyrics. Even those lyrics are told through the lens of someone defending their broken and abusive relationship, deepening the lie. Our narrator wants to portray this relationship as something dark, yet also immensely beautiful and encompassing. The result is a song about the agony and pleasure of a broken relationship, disguised so well as a love song in every possible way that it gets mistaken for something romantic. (Even if you are aware of the meaning, there is still that deep urge to experience the song as something romantic. Just like the narrator, the listener is drawn in by beauty and the powerful idea of love, so much so that it can blind them to reality.)

Variations of this can be seen in Talk. In this song, the narrator makes their intentions very clear - they are sweet-talking someone in order to hide their own thoughts and desires (“I try to talk refined, for fear that you find out how I’m imagining you”). Despite knowing this, the sheer power of the lyrics (“I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus / when her body was found. / I'd be the choiceless hope in grief / that drove him underground. / I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee / that made him turn around, / and I'd be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice”) overwhelms the listener. We know the speaker is putting on a show. We know they have ulterior motives, and likely don’t even believe what they are saying. But their words are so beautiful that we don’t care. The intense, almost mythic music in the background is so lovely and deep, it makes the lyrics seem genuine, because what lie could sound so astounding and true? In this case, the song about smoke and mirrors and empty talk becomes a love song because the narrator is just that skilled at lying.

Even songs like Too Sweet, sung by a narrator who refuses to be with someone unless they allow their standards to slide, become ‘romantic’ and ‘sweet’ to certain listeners - not because the lyrics are impenetrable, but because so many of Hozier’s narrators are unreliable. His songs spin sweet stories, lies so stunning that listeners are willing to deny what they know in order to experience the beauty of that untruth, the complexity of that space between what is real and what we want to believe.

And isn’t that more true to the experience of being a person, and loving other people, than the simple truths we often see in these types of songs?

[lupinflowrs]

moonflower but make it anne and cole from awae ✰

[hotgirlbelle]

work song // too sweet

[yogubog]

ouuughh im turning this into a lock screen wallpaper :3

[darkeyebrowsss]

I think ill take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three… you’re too sweet for meeeeeeee

[spasechip]

my stuff from @potato-lord-but-not is here!!

i’ve been too scared to stick them anywhere (what if i put them in the wrong place and they are stuck FOREVER!!!) so instead they have been put up on my wall and now they watch me sleep 🫡 i LOVE THEM SO MUCH