WASTELAND, BABY! | Hozier Reaction
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In the Black tradition, we name our teachers/ who we've learned from. I see Nina Cried Power as Hozier's way of continuing the tradition. He is acknowledging his influences from pioneers in the genres of blues, soul, gospel, jazz, etc. It is huge especially as a white man to do this and give credit when a lot of white artists don't often do. Also cry power (Black Power) is a very important symbol for the Black community. I love Hozier. He doesn't shy away from history and recognizing where some of his best ideas come from.
This absolutely!! The civil rights movement also directly influenced revolution in Ireland. So they are his influences in many ways. Beautiful
Oh I love this! I knew that was where he drew a lot of inspiration but I love the extra context.
I love the way you out it! Thank you for sharing❤
i think that’s so beautiful and i love that he’s very open about acknowledging his influences/ idols, and the history that accompanies them. hozier doesn’t shy away from shedding light on any social conflicts/ injustices, and i have so much respect for him for that (and many many other things).
You know, now that you mention that I can think of so many examples of artists paying homage to artists that inspired them! That’s really beautiful:)
Shrike is so underrated 😫 and the line “If I were born as a blackthorn tree, I’d wanna be felled by you, held by you…FUEL THE PYRE OF YOUR ENEMIES…” 🔥🔥🔥 from NFWMB
YES I LOVE NFWMB ❤🔥
I don't know if you know this already, but the beginning of that song and the chords are similar if not the same as It Will Come Back!@@Ayah.Papaya
@@madisonmumme5098 oh my gosh, I never noticed! tysm for pointing that out- it's really cool!
The tracks you thought weren't really "developed" he'd actually said he kept more simple for the sake of it being palatable for people to understand, given the headiness of the lyrics.
When I saw him in concert the first time many years ago he explained how he learned the story of a Shrike and that he felt it was so poetic and dark that the bird builds its lover a nest of dead animals on spikes and so of course he wrote a song about it. Shrike is my all time favorite song of his
I saw him in philly!
Mine too!!! ❤
No Plan is the winner for me, it still has some of the most romantic lyrics I've heard: "your secret is safe with me, and if secrets were like seeds, spare my body from the fire hire a gardener for my grave" , "your secret is safe with me, and if secrets were like seeds, when I'm lying under marble marvel at the flowers you'll have made" UGHHHH genius
At one of his shows recently Hozier said that civil movements would be nothing without its artists and that Nina Cried Power was a way to acknowledge that and give back.
Yeah amazing! That's beautiful
Listening to this album is like a spiritual awakening. My favourite is definitely Wasteland, Baby. I love the little "that's it" that he whispers at the ends
I swoon every time, no matter how many times I hear it.
Yeahhh it's so cute
I’m real sad that Talk didn’t resonate so much with you 🥺 I think it’s wonderfully done to hear all the grand romantic stories he alludes to with Orpheus and Eurydice and then almost aside confessing that he’s just putting a gilded layer to the lust he feels, that it’s not a mythical ethereal feeling, it’s just human emotion and desires.
For Wasteland baby, it feels like he’s singing through a haze, like how in the wastelands of the world, the fog that descends from the nature reclaiming what we’ve left behind and smoke of the ashes of the ruins of the world , how his voice is so distant and dreamy like an echo of the life before the destruction. So hopeful to me, enduring despite the soft and ghostly quality.
My favorites are Shrike, As it was, Wasteland Baby, almost sweet music and… would that I, yeah!
Promise us that you’ll do his songs that got left out of the big three albums!!! Especially NWFMB, Swan upon Leda, and Through me (the flood) oh and the song from that game: Blood upon the Snow! It’s up for a Grammy I think! I think you’d like Jackboot Jump and that song that was only partially recorded in a live concert, But the Wages. There’s more im surely forgetting
Oh, I forgot to check but did you listen to the bonus tracks from the first album?
I also wish Talk was better received! It’s one of Hozier’s simpler themes- being horny.
I also desperately need him to listen to Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue) 😏
@@katherinejackson9770 haha, yeah, exactly! I think it’s one of the more explicit songs and pretty representative of the rest of the album or his songs, I think!
yeah the chorus of talk hits me like a train every time, it just resonates with me so much. great song!!
@mwesrik8081 That song! I bet he understands what it's about. 😉😂 Took me a minute, and then I was like, wait...is this song about a ......😳😜 ?! Hahaha Yes. Yes, indeed, it is.
wasteland baby hits best for me because it feels like someone singing me a song as i fall asleep, or like i'm hearing it from another room as i fall asleep (or as the world ends and that's the last thing i hear as i slip away into the next world)
tracklist
2:12 nina cried power
6:56 almost (sweet music)
11:01 movement
14:57 no plan
20:18 nobody
23:51 to noise making (sing)
29:18 as it was
33:09 shrike
38:22 talk
41:05 be
45:00 dinner & diatribes
48:12 would that i
52:58 sunlight
57:25 wasteland, baby!
great video btw, love your reactions! ❤✨
The heavy reverb on Wasteland, Baby! is to mimic being underwater due to the melting ice caps. 💧 🔥
i saw him in concert a couple weeks ago, still in shock over how fucking incredible he is. i’m glad you enjoyed the album
yess I saw him in philly! BEST thing I've ever done. ever.
@@Ayah.Papaya absolutely, i saw him in portland and i have never been more glad i went to concert in my life. i have also never been more glad to get a high up seat bc holy shit so many people keep going down at these concerts
@@Ayah.PapayaI saw him in Philly too! Experiencing “uiscefhuaraithe” live and in person as he sang about it to us on that misty night was magical (loved that we got a cheeky scolding too) 😅✨🖤✨🤘🎸🔥🤩
yesss i saw him in slc, one of the best nights of my life. he's been my favorite artist for like 5 years, i just love him and his music sooooo much
I'm gonna try and get tix in the summer!!
i saw him in concert LAST NIGHT in vegas and he is genuinely the most talented artist i have ever seen live in my life
Omgggg I'm gonna try and get London tickets for the summer
@@Luscent you 100% should!! i was able to get there super early and i got barricade and it was genuinely one of the best live performances i have ever seen😭 you can FEEL the passion he has for his music
Okay now we really need your reaction to all of his other songs not on albums, there about a dozen between singles and EPs and they are all incredible.
NFWMB, Moments Silence, Swan Upon Leda, Better Love, Arsonist Lullabye, and Through Me are my favorite non album songs
I love Blood, Love Of, and The Wages too! There aren't recorded versions, but the live versions are INSANE
Through me is freaking incredible. the second verse is the most precise image of a house after your loved one dies. Every time I listen to Through me I cry like a baby. phenomenal track and his Irish accent is killing me through the song, so fucking hot
@@Ayah.PapayaI am IN LOVE with Blood! It’s one of my favourites of his singles!
Blood is one of my favorite songs of him and the fact that there's no studio version breaks my goddamn heart.
ikr @@papl20 😭😭😭
Man, You got it. From Him, not many figure out this handsome Man. Talk is by far, again, my fave!
The Lyrics for Almost (Sweet Music) is mostly songs names and other song lyrics and I find how something somewhat so cohesive can be written by doing so. How complex the rhythm is with the instrumental and also thinking about the man trying to sing while doing so blows my mind. It came to the point that the man had to make a tutorial for the clap and snaps lol. In my opinion it’s a 10/10 so. Definitely one of my favorites of all time.
That is soooooooo cool
wait there's a tutorial?!?! is on yt or something? I've been trying to figure out the clapping everytime I hear it since I've been a fan. (2021)
@@Ayah.Papaya ruclips.net/video/Wk1Qi8hh3RI/видео.html
It’s amazing how differently some of Hozier’s songs hit when you also have religious trauma. But I’m so glad you didn’t have to deal with that and I still adore these reactions! I love the way you can focus on both the lyrics and the production
I love how much you love to noise making! As an ex choir kid myself, it means a lot to me personally and it’s one of my faves
Finally, PLEASE watch the late show live performance of shrike. It’s exceptional and he plays the guitar throughout
i’ve been a huge hozier fan since literal day one, before he even had an album out, and for me this is the album that i’ve had the least straightforward relationship with. self titled and unreal unearthed were absolute hits for me on a first listen but i think when wasteland baby first came out i didn’t fully get it. it felt really different from his previous stuff and it wasn’t all clicking into place for me on my first few listens. but then not too long ago i was having a conversation with my sibling and they told me wasteland baby is their favorite of his three albums and i was like okay i need YOU to talk to me about wasteland baby because there’s something here that i’ve been missing. i feel like wasteland is a totally natural precursor to unreal unearthed, he sort of starts to unpack themes and subjects that are delved into more fully on unreal unearthed. this idea that at the end of it all the only things that will matter are love and sex and music and art and fighting for what’s right, these things that make us human and make our lives worth living. like we are in hell, whether it’s literal hell or just the hellscape we’re turning earth into, so at the end of the day all we’ve got are the things humans have always had, art and each other (and horny poetry)
top five are:
1. would that i
2. nina cried power
3. wasteland, baby!
4. no plan
5. almost (sweet music)
@@snailflowers I did a piece for my modern dance class to would that I- that teacher is the one who introduced me to hozier in 2021
shrike is forever and always going to be my favourite hozier song. i'm so glad you loved it and that it resonated with you. i've been wanting to get a hozier related tattoo and i've been waffling between something from shrike and something from in a week, and this is just pushing shrike forward as the choice in my head. also fun fact about shrikes, the reason they impale their prey on sharp objects is because they have blunt beaks - they have no other way of getting prey. so hozier is also kind of dependent on his lover for survival by calling himself the shrike to her thorn.
Yes! Shrike is one of my favorites. I actually have a shrike tattooed on the horns of a buck.
My top 5:
5. Talk
4. Would That I
3. Dinner & Diatribes
2. Nina Cried Power
1. Movement
This album is in my top 3 favorite albums of all time. The ethereal and mystical vibe that Hozier captures in his music is the most prominent on this album, and he nails it every second. There are no skips on this album.
When you said you didn't love Talk, my eye started twitching and then I threw up 🤗
Oh finally some To Noise Making (Sing) appreciation! I love that song! It speaks to me so much, that urge to reclaim the joy of things you love, shedding perfectionism. I love to see how different people feel connected to different songs. Please check his other stuff! Jackboot Jump is so fun! Or check the live sessions! You'll love them!
Here are a handful of fun facts about some of the songs if you’re interested!
Nina Cried Power, the music video features a bunch of modern day activists listening to the song for the first time, it’s beautiful, a love letter to the spirit of protest music and those who have come before
Almost(Sweet Music), he tried to write a song using nothing but titles of songs he grew up listening to, he then realized that that was a bit too difficult so he wrote a song composed *mostly* of those titles, about music’s effect on memory and vice versa
Movement, apparently he wanted to write a song that modulated key, and a song about dance, so he did, that wall of sound that comes at the end is just gorgeous
No Plan, the Mack mentioned (“As Mack explained, there will be darkness again”) is Dr. Katie Mack, a theoretical physicist and science communicator, she wrote this book about I think 5 possible deaths of the universe that Andrew read, and one of them was heat death, right now we’re in the springtime of the universe, all this life and energy, but with the universe expanding, all that energy will eventually dissipate, and the universe spread out, and stop interacting, and everything will slow, and eventually die. So in the context of that, and the vastness of the universe everything is relativley inconsequential 😅
To Noise Making makes me really happy : ) Apparently it was inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem “At the Wellhead”
Talk is so dirty 😂 He is playing a character, but just one who was an unhealthy obsession with this person, but is trying to be clever and is throwing in all these grand allusions hoping that the person won’t get a glimpse of the way he’s thinking about them, makes me a little uncomfortable 😅
Be, did you catch that line with Adam? Again, so dirty 😂 But the whole thing isn’t, that section “when the man who gives the order is born next time found on the boat sent back, when the bodies starving at the border are on tv giving people the sack” those lines hurt
The reverb loses me in some places, but I’ve come to love all of them, on first listen a ton blended together for me, but I kept coming back to sit with them
Also I could have sworn NFWMB and Moment’s Silence(Common Tongue) were on this album, but I guess they’re the Nina Cried Power EP! Please make sure you check them out at some point!! (Moment’s Silence was inspired after reading someone’s interpretation of the lyrics “no masters or kings when the ritual begins, there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin” in Take Me To Church, that person said that those lines were about oral sex, and he was like, well, I won’t take a meaning someone finds in a song away from them, but in that case I really wasn’t thinking about that, but decided tongue in cheek “you want a song about oral sex? Well here you go” 😂 And it’s about the relationship between power and oral sex and (mainly conservative) people in power and their views on oral sex
yeah lmao everytime hear Be, I think about the line with adam- Be, dinner and diatribes, talk, and moments silence are songs I need to be careful to to listen to with my older relatives around
@@Ayah.Papaya lol, thankfully I’m pretty sure none of them knew what it meant or listened to the lyrics, but before I knew what “small death” referred to I definitely played Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene in the car while on a trip with older relatives 😂 Not the worst one I could have played thankfully!
@@macm.3889angel of small death is my best friend's fav, and I don't know if she knows what it means
(hello I am here late)
The Seamus Heaney reference makes so much sense, because "when the gyre widens" on Be HAS to be a reference to W. B. Yeats' poem The Second Coming. Heaney and Yeats are two of the most famous Irish poets.
This album is definitely one that you need to listen to a couple times to let it just marinate. It took me a while to really appreciate some songs. I honestly couldn't give you a real top five, it changes every couple months, depending of my mood, the season, etc. Right now it's probably No Plan, Be, Talk, Shrike and Movement. My controversial opinion is that I don't really like To Noise Making. It's the only song Hozier has ever released that I haven't liked enough to put on my playlist.
Yeah that's fair!
Noise making was the last one i finally gave in and added, I still don’t love all of the overall sounds but the lyrics finally caught me 😂
My top 5, in no particular order: Nina Cried Power, Almost (Sweet Music), Movement, No Plan, and Dinner and Diatribes
Also Be is super underrated
Almost(Sweet Music) is written almost entirely with song titles or lyrics from artists who inspired Hoizer. Check out the Genius notes on that song
Oh amazing!!!!
I have such an emotional connection with this album that I can't listen to some of the songs to much anymore or else it just takes me straight back into when I first heard the album in high school
The official music video for Nina Cried Power is absolutely amazing. Just saying. So powerful.
yess! the way it's so simple, but so moving- just a bunch of ppl hearing the song for the first time ♥
Nina Cried Power and Movement are my two favorites from this album - just stunning. I only realized how much I ADORED movement when I heard him play it live at Madison Square Garden last year... it was one of the highlights of the show (though there was no dull moment). The crowd singing along was stunning.
I hope you go back and listen to the EP exclusive songs
YES THIS!!!!
Yeah I'm gonna do a bonus vid with all the extras!!
hozier was my top artist for spotify wrapped bc I listened to wasteland baby 331 times 🫣 so that should tell you my top song of this album
1. would that i 2. dinner & diatribes 3. almost (sweet mustic) 4. Nina cried power 5. Shrike
Honorable mention to wasteland, baby!
YEAHHHH I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS FOR AGES!!!
top five songs for me!!!
1, shrike
2, sing
3, movement
4, as it was
5. dinner and diatribes
i love these songs aaaahh
i just saw him live last week and i’m in absolute awe of his talent and ability to speak through his music. he somehow managed to make a sold out arena feel like a small get together. also, he’s so funny and endearing
1. Would That I
2. Nina Cried Power
3. Movement
4. NO plan
5. Wasteland, Baby
This is my fave album. So beautiful! He is not a Human. None would give what He does
This is the album I keep in my car's CD player so I can switch to it when I drive through dead zones and spotify craps out. I couldn't begin to guess how many times I've listened to it. My favourites right now are probably No Plan, Nobody, As It Was, Be, and Wasteland, Baby (even though the last one sounds like he's singing through a fan, lmao. I still love the imagery and the lullaby vibes). But I love them all and they take turns as my #1
Oh, how did Talk not make it to my list?? It's one of my most consistent favourites. I find it so funny that he wrote it as "an elaborate self-own" about guys who try to sound all romantic and sophistocated by referencing the same 1 thing they learned that they think will be impressive enough to get in someone's pants 😂 And it's fun to sing along with
Ohhh and Would That I has some of my favourite wordplay. hmmmmmm
Been waiting for this reaction!! I absolutely adore Shrike, Would That I, and Wasteland, Baby! so much. Hearing the beat for Would That I coming in at the concert in Toronto was UNREAL. I think Wasteland, Baby! is my favourite song of his just for the line, "Be still my indelible friend," because it's so beautiful and that friend can really be anything or anyone, be it a person, a spirit, or a feeling. Just the idea of telling that indelible, permanent thing to be still is absolutely wonderful to me. It's right up there with Uiscehuara, Butchered Tongue, and Icarian. I think you'd really enjoy his cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on RTÉ with all the violins and candles everywhere. Also In the Woods Somewhere is gorgeous and you'd enjoy it!
Some beautiful songs on this! Really excited to react to a bunch of his other random tracks too!
Nina Cried Power is my favorite Hozier song of all time it’s so so powerful.
1. Nina Cried Power
2. Dinner & Diatribes
3. Shrike
4. Movement
5. Almost (Sweet Music)
The things this man can do with his voice… 🥹👏🏽🤍 on top of these thoughtful & elegant lyrics ❤️🩹🙌🏽😭
I love this album so much. Definitely my favorite of Hozier's albums so far.
My Top 5 are:
1. Almost (Sweet Music)
2. Nobody
3. Sunlight
4. Wasteland, Baby!
5. Shrike
Almost (sweet music) is SO underrated! It's my all-time favorite feel-good song.
my favorite song of his is wasteland, baby! I’ve said for awhile that if I get married, i’d maybe like that song to be my first dance song
That's beautiful 🥰
1. Movement
2. Nina cried power
3. Sunlight
4. Would that i
5. Wasteland, baby!
Yes! Someone who loves To Noise Making as much as me. Same as you, the first time I heard it, it moved me to tears. Love 😊
I'm so excited you reacted to this album. You're a beautiful person and I love your reaction and commentary. Thank you, keep going 😊
I've been looking forward to you reacting to this one. I'm so glad you followed through and did it. ❤❤❤
Your reactions are so good...very satisfying to hear your appreciation for the music, vocals, and lyrics.
MY FAVORITE VINYL TO PLAY so happy to see you react to this to complete the trilogy!! 'would that i' was my real intro to hozier and first song I was obsessed with (after take me to church of course)
my favs:
shrike
wasteland, baby
would that I
nobody
no plan
Movement sounds to me like the perfect song for that walk down the aisle in a grand cathedral.
Yeahhh it's so cinematic!
💗💗💗💗 Yesss, looked forward to you reacting to this gem!!! Love that you love it too ❤🔥 💕
Would That I is absolutely magical live.
Amazing video as always! It'd be amazing to see one of these on a compilation of hozier's tracks that aren't on any of the albums, because this man has a talent for making the most beautiful powerful song and then leaving it be loose on EPs or singles. Swan Upon Leda, NFWMB, Arsonist's Lullaby, Moment's Silence, Through Me (The Flood), and many many others.
Thank you! I've been waiting (im)patiently for this!
Mans is listening to Talk and saying he doesn't get it 🥲
he's our lil innocent child
my top 5
1. wasteland baby
2. would that i
3. sunlight
4. talk
5. movement
i adore this album and i loved your reaction !!!
you have no idea how much i’ve been looking forward to this video!!
Nina Cried Power - also just the it’s not just about being woke, it’s about rising into action instead of staying at just the awareness.
Movement
Nina Cried Power (the live in the studio version is the best tho)
Wasteland Baby (there’s a beautiful version that he played on Ellen one time)
As It Was
Shrike
Would I
1. Talk
2. Shrike
3. To Noise Making (Sing)
4. Almost (Sweet Music)
5. As It Was
I think I agree with you-I loooove this album but for sure there’s a lack of cohesion with the songs so it doesn’t fully come together for me. Some of the songs (Be especially) feel like they belong in his self titled album instead of this one, to me.
As for Talk, the way he’s explained it, and reading between the lines, it’s, well-it’s just a song about picking up a stranger at a bar or something, to hook up with. So he’s invoking this Greek mythology to appear educated/impressive in front of this woman he wants to go home with. Hence the “imagine being loved by me” being followed by the chorus of him essentially saying it’s a good thing she can’t read his mind because, he’s full of it and just wants to have s3x, haha.
I'd recommend that you revisit Talk when you look up the meaning behind it. It hit different once I learned the context of his intentions. I would also love to see a reaction to his EP's/ random singles: he has some FANTASTIC songs that did not make it on the albums. I also suggest watching the video to Dinner & Diatribes: it really dives into that darker element of the song and it makes it hit different. ☺
Wow you actually listened to all of his albums and tracks ❤
My favourite album, thank you for completing the hozier trilogy :)))
Happy to do it!! 🥰🥰 I'm gonna do a bonus vid with all the other songs I missed so keep an eye out 😊😊
1. Wasteland, Baby
2. Would That I
3. Dinner & Diatribes
4. Shrike
5. Almost
i was waiting for this reaction and it didn’t disappoint! i always love to hear your opinions and thoughts on songs because they’re often thoughts i haven’t heard on a particular song.
OMG THIS IS LITERALLY ALBUM IS SO GOOD
I would suggest (either on your own or as a reaction video) to watch the music video for Nina Cried Power. Hozier brought in Irish civil rights activists to listen for the first time to the song and recorded their raw reactions, and it adds such an intensity to it. His live solo version from 2019 has more lyrics added too.
ETA: the music video bit could go for several of his songs (Take Me to Church/Almost (Sweet Music)/Dinner & Diatribes etc). They do some beautiful interpretations to go with the music.
Got a tattoo for To Noise Making (Sing). Glad you loved it as much as I do ❤️
Aw! Beautiful!
ooo what was it, if you feel comfortable sharing?
@@Ayah.Papaya it's says "honey, sing" in cursive and there are some flowers under it. It's right under my inner elbow
@@valeriemorales7893 oh my gosh, that sounds so pretty!
god im such a huge fan of hozier i saw him live on october 11th this year and it was life altering!
my top 5 for wasteland, baby! are (in no particular order) as follows:
1. would that i
2. talk
3. shrike
4. sunlight
5. Movement
6. (as a bonus cause i feel that it stands alone) Nina Cried Power
1. Sunlight 2. Nina Cried Power 3. Movement 4. Shrike 5. To Noise Making , Thank you for your wonderful reaction!!
Awww you skipped over reading the final verse of " would that I" which was a beautifully poetically written oral sex reference/joke.
But yeah, both Talk and Dinner & Diatribes are kind of known as Hoziers "sexiest songs"...so yeah, both are about sex.
I don't think I have a top five for this album as some of them didnt really hit for me, like you were saying, but I do really like Shrike, Would That I, Dinner and Diatribes, and Movement. Those would be my favorite ones off this album. I kind of love them all equally so really can't rank them tbh.
IM SO HAPPY YOU’RE LISTENING TO HIM
Talk is kind of a funny song where he’s pretending to be “all that” to try and seduce someone. Saying he’d be the love that urged Orpheus to go underground, the devotion that made him turn around” “the sweet feeling of release” he’s truth. He’s love. He’s everything anyone has ever wanted. But if only this woman knew what he’s really thinking (he just wants to fuck essentially) then that would be bad so he talks refined for fear that she’ll find out what is truly on his mind.
In Talk he's talking about all of these grand, complicated, philosophical, topics in the verses then explaining in the chorus that all that refined talk was actually just to cover up and distract her from the fact that he's thinking of all the ways to make love to her
My top five are defiantly
Movement
Talk
Sing
Almost
Shrike
Ahhhhh I see
So, top 5 in no order: Would That I, Shrike, Talk, Almost, Nina Cried Power.
Listen to Talk again, don't think so hard and just vibe with it. It's so sexy and I always imagine that feeling where you meet someone you just want to take home for the night, how your going to get them there.
As others have said, pull all off albums songs into your next Hozier. Jackboot Jump, Swan Upon Leda, Arsonist Lullaby, NFWMB, Moments Silence, and a new one that blew my mind completely, Blood Upon the Snow. I know there is more but I see others leaving them.
If you ever get the chance to see him live, you won't be disappointed. I just saw him for the third time two weeks ago in Seattle and he just gets better!
I saw he just released some summer UK dates. Lastly, I encourage you to watch Take Me To Church, Cherry Wine, and Nina Cried Power videos. Get your tissues ready. Work Song and Almost are also fun videos to watch. Thank you for reviewing these, I watched all three of them 😀
I am very much planning on getting tickets for him in London next summer!!! 🥰🥰🥰
YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
Also me 😂 trying to make it thru the week knowing this was coming on Friday
There will be darkness again!
I think that movement is more about a conversation with ourselves. About all the things that we carry in our backpack all the things that we burry very deep inside us that they stop us to go forward to fight for what we want. So it's about asking ourselves to move so we can move forward so we can continue so we can bring all that things to light and fight for what is correct. But maybe, it's very possible as usual, that I be wrong.
this might not be the case but movement was featured on a KIA advert a while ago so maybe u recognise it from there?
Oh maybe! I think looking back it might've come up on Spotify suggested at some point ages ago
This album I listen to everyday 😅
I never comment on things but I felt like I needed to correct something here because this is my fave album of all time and context is so important. Hozier didn't grow up a Catholic, he grew up as a Quaker, the ties to Catholicism come from his Irish heritage and the relationship between Ireland and the church. There's some great interviews where he chats about it but you really see how that point of view informs his music. Quakers believe there's a divinity in each person and I think Hozier himself believes women, specifically, to be these divine powerful creatures.
Now that edging is in the Internet zeitgeist, consider the lyrics of No Plan in that context
my top 5:
1. Nina cried power
2. nobody
3.sunlight
4. shrike
5. to noise making (sing)
I can't believe he couldn't get into Talk, its one of my favourite songs ITS SO FUCKING SEXY
IKR
He was raised as a Quaker in a Catholic country.
My top 5:
1. Shrike
2. Would That I
3. Movement
4. As It Was
5. Nina Cried Power
Hozier honest to god is one of the only artists that has made me want to write my own songs
Nina is Nina Simone, a famous black singer from the 50s
A lot of people say thats his best album... Wich I dont agree lol
Sunlight, No plan and Would that I are my favourites from the album 💚
my top 5:
1. shrike
2. would that i
3. talk
4. to noise making (sing)
5. nobody
ok ranking!
1. Wasteland, baby!
2. shrike
3. almost (sweet music)
4. would that i
5. sunlight
This reaction was entertaining all the way through. I appreciate your opinion especially when it’s different than mine. Be and Sing are not my favorites but now I have new appreciation for them. My top 5 -
Nobody
Nina Cried Power
No Plan
Dinner & Diatribes
Talk
Aw thanks glad you enjoyed!!
We need you to react to the music videos plssss. There's so many layers in them and they're sooo good
In wasteland Baby he's supposed to be under water...
Oh that makes sense haha
My top 5 is:
1. Nina cried power (the live version never fails to make me cry)
2. Wasteland, baby
3. Shrike
4. Movement
5. To noise making or as it was depending on the mood
This was such a slay !! Love everything you react to , really feel like I gain a lot watching you
Also omg please listen to the good witch by Maisie, idk if you’ll like it or what but I’d be super intrigued about your perspective
aw thanks!! will probs do a Maisie vid in the new year so keep an eye out!
nina cried power is an absolute favourite of mine because of the double meaning of the lyric "it's not the waking, it's the rising." of course he could be talking about the literal act of waking up vs getting out of bed, but he's also talking about being "woke" and how social media perpetuates this idea of being politically correct even though nothing comes from it. being woke isn't enough. we need to take action. "it's not the waking, it's the rising"
another favourite is definitely "be" because of the politics discussed in the lyrics. the second verse feels so cathartic. "when the man who gives the order is born next time around on the boat sent back. when the bodies starving at the border are on tv giving people the sack." like bro really said fuck you trump lmfao 😭
Its funny, a lot of the songs on this album are some of my least favourite Hozier songs but its also the origin of some of my absolute favourites xD
I think my top 5 in no particular order are:
1. Would That I (seeing this live is one of the most joyful experiences ive ever had)
2. Shrike (I just love nature and brutal love ✨)
3. Wasteland Baby (I used to HATE the voice effect but somehow Im in love with it now, just so soft and sad and hopeful and the weird voice affect kinda fits the end of the world vibe)
4. Sunlight (Again, this makes me feel so much joy and awe, its just so beautiful)
5. Nina Cried Power (Such an empowering and humble song. Its so so important to me as someone who cares a lot about politics, equality and stuff. The song reminds me of what i want and need to be in order to really change somethinga nd just urgh! I adore Hoziers political stuff so much)
Yeah I think the same thing! Like some of his absolute best songs but overall I think it's weaker
if something has already be said about this, i'm sorry; i'd read all the posts if i had the time -- hozier wasn't raised catholic. his family are quakers.
He will have been unable to escape the tentacles of catholicism that pervade the very air in Ireland. Thank god it's a little less these days😁
@@sgtobin yes. truth. i was thinking more of his family and the home where he grew up -- with his mother, an artist, and his father, a jazz drummer -- and how he grew up in all that art.
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I really keep seeing Tom Holland in you 😭
So many people say that hahahaha
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baby 'talk' is a horny song, cmon how can that fly over your head
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he's too innocent for this world lmao