🙃 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.

You know, something gives me the feeling that maybe you’re not as much a fan of his music as you think you are.

Wasteland, Baby! | March 1, 2019

"There is definitely a kind of wry smile to the work, but it takes place with a great shadow hanging over, I suppose, the end of the world kind of hanging over the album a little bit. But that is enjoyed in the best way possible."

"And to men, also, just be wary of any mentality that would make cattle or make vessels of women. Because that same mentality will make machines and tools of you, and make monsters of you."

- Hozier

hozier performing an acoustic set of from eden, dublin 2019. I get brought to tears every time I watch this.

(don’t ask me how to get the full footage bc idk 😭 the concert was professionally recorded because it was supposed to be televised but it never ended up happening. somehow some fans managed to 🏴‍☠️this specific part, I just screen-recorded it and have had it saved for 4yrs)

UPDATED : the full concert film is here !!!

all of hozier's songs are about love, but i'm not entirely sure if it's the kind of love everyone seems to think it is. i think his love shines out in that he cares for the world and the people in it so much that it can only inspire anger and mourning at how things like capitalism, greed, colonialism, war, homophobia, and racism damage and corrupt them. it's almost like as he points out these deep systemic issues, he has to then turn to the light and praise the things that are good and beautiful as to not let the flame burn out. i think a lot of people may only know him for the high adulations of love presented in many of his ballads, and those are still wonderous, sure, but what interests me far more is his enduring love for the downtrodden and the marginalized, and how he uses language to try and lift them away from the things that oppress them.

*sobs in may never be able to see/make the edits I invisioned of Nina Zenik both on and overcoming her addiction to jurda parem to Nina Cried Power by Hozier*

They’re one and the same

What we seek, however, is not power over people, but the power of control of our own destiny:

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

// Become Ungovernable, Medium // BLACK PANTHER PARTY’S FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM (1969-1980) // The Genius of Huey P. Newton, CounterPunch // Abi Thorn’s Trans Power Speech Transcript // Nina Cried Power, Hozier ft. Mavis Staples // Jackboot Jump, Hozier // Backlash Blues, Nina Simone // Be, Hozier // Take Me To Church, Hozier // Tomorrow is My Turn, Nina Simone

Hozier - Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) - Live at Windmil Lane Studios.

❝ It's not the song, it is the singin' It's the heaven of the human spirit ringin' It is the bringin' of the line It is the bearin' of the rhyme It's not the wakin', it's the risin' ❞

Hozier talking about Mavis Staples and how the civil rights movement here in America inspired the one in Northern Ireland before singing Nina Cried Power during his Atlanta show last night (10/6)

Warning: the audience screaming is a bit loud

“Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes? Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay? Ain't you my baby?”

NFWMB by Hozier

Martin Niemöller // The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King // "Nina Cried Power" (Hozier) // Emma Watson // Protector of the Small: First Test by Tamora Pierce // The Hunchback of Notre Dame // John Stuart Mill // Jojo Rabbit // "Naughty" (Matilda)

there you go my dearest wasteland baby fanatics <3

people who listen to Hozier are automatically granted the access to heaven