#now it feels like a damn insult that too sweet was a fucking tiktok song for people's baby pictures

[apathyandmischief]

CHERRY WINE IS ABOUT ABUSE AND I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING THIS FOR ACTUALLY A DECADE NOW.

Also Too Sweet was originally written for the Gluttony ring on Unreal Unearth. It's about GLUTTONY, i.e. overindulgence; its voice is a self-criticism on that very concept of shirking responsibility for vice.

Also Swan Upon Leda was written as a direct response to the repeal of Roe v Wade as a lament on the loss of rights. Jackboot Jump never got a formal recording or release. I hate that these songs are either entirely misrepresented or just thrown under the rug when they are his BEST songs.

- 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.