Grammy-nomated Irish sger-songwrer Hozier says people assume he is gay bee of his anti-Roman Catholic church anthem "Take Me To Church" and the anti-homophobia vio which acpani .
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- IS HOZIER GAY? IRISH SGER’S ‘TAKE ME TO CHURCH’ LEADS SOME TO MAKE ASSUMPTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
- DO ANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALLOW/ACCEPT HOMOSEXUAL/GAY RELATNSHIPS?
IS HOZIER GAY? IRISH SGER’S ‘TAKE ME TO CHURCH’ LEADS SOME TO MAKE ASSUMPTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
Hozier explas you don't have to be gay to see anti-gay doctratn as an issue worth sgg about * is take me to church about gay love *
Hozier’s Mic Vio: An AnalysisThe mic vio for ‘Take Me To Church, ’ a song by Hozier, featur a narrative based on the Catholic Church’s discrimatn agast homosexualy. The purpose of this mic vio is to rm the dience of homosexualy and discrimatn— an issue that is still unrolved many parts of the world. The vio follows nventns by addrsg the ntroversial issue of attacks lead on homosexuals, and was filmed as a rponse to Rsia’s antipathy towards homosexualy and genr variance.
The pace of the edg and transns is nsistent throughout the mic vio, which may be a reprentatn of how nothg seems to change when to society acceptg homosexualy and eedom of song is a has a slow pace — nventnal beg part of the die-rock genre of mic.
Due to the strong and emotnal theme of homophobia, the song was ed to stand up agast discrimatn certa parts of the world, such as Rsia and Ireland — Hozier’s untry of orig. It’s later revealed that the character that the box belongs to is homosexual, so therefore the box uld reprent the secrecy of his sexualy, and the character buryg and lockg away his feelgs. Furthermore, the birds uld reprent the two ma characters, who ignore the discrimatn agast homosexualy, and they exprs their love for each other.
DO ANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALLOW/ACCEPT HOMOSEXUAL/GAY RELATNSHIPS?
This may be a dystopian sight as to how homosexuals react to discrimatn— attemptg not to stand out, to rema unnoticed. This juxtaposn of genre nventns uld be to show how is a hybrid-genre mic lyrics, which often seem unrelated and nfg, were wrten wh ep and subtle meang related to the mic vio's narrative; homosexualy Rsia.
Hozier wanted to draw the past to the mic, to rm the dience of how long the discrimatn agast homosexualy has been around, orr to make the dience thk about the tragedy and emotn referred to the a summary of my analysis, the mic vio and lyrics of ‘Take Me To Church’ addrs discrimatn agast sexualy through means of buildg an emotnal nnectn wh the two ma characters, stripped-back by the lack of nam, speech, and lour, creatg a clear, simplified msage. He add: 'To e the Church's own words, they view homosexualy as somethg that is trsilly disorred. IS Hozier Gay?
“It’s people rryg out terrible acts through the jtifitn of far-right tradnalism, and also a long mpaign to make homosexualy equivalent wh thgs like pedophilia and btialy, which is absolutely appallg. While Hozier thks ’s an important subject, ’s not bee he’s gay – he’s said multiple terviews that he’s not – nor is bee there are a lot of people close to him who’ve experienced homophobia.