Wanna feel old? Hozier took us to church ten years ago. Gas was $3.60 cents a gallon and dropping, Miley was riding her wrecking ball, and Daft Punk was getting lucky winning Grammys.
At the same time, the 6’6″ handsome Irish tenor who was born Andrew John Hozier-Byrnex was poised to release “Take Me To Church” on 9/13/13. The complicated tune written and recorded in his parents’ attic would go 4x platinum, top the Spotify charts, and do pretty pretty well on YouTube where it’s been viewed 769 million times.
The song wasn’t really about church, but more about how falling in love and being in its throes is tantamount to death – or mighty close. And also how the biggest church on the globe should take it easy on the homophobia. But we’ll just call it an anti-love song.
Ironically, Ms. Anti Hero was hogging the top spot in the 2014 charts and Hozier’s debut single peaked at #2 behind Tay’s “Blank Space.”
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