Look, I love the fae jokes. Hozier looks like he was pulled from a bog after a 1,500 year nap. His lyrics are poetic and morbid and romantic in a very other worldly way.
“My first introduction to music [was] Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, the music that my dad used to play in the house. From there, I just fell in love with the music coming out of black America. A lot of my folk influences would be coming from Ireland. There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music. There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. It is, of course, a really difficult subject. Everything that’s popular music swings off the work and the achievements and the legacy of black artistry…”
So while I love the fae bog man jokes, we have to acknowledge the tremendous influence of Black artists. There’s no Hozier without Black music.
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[image description: 3 tweets by “death to the American empire” @/Elijahthek1d that say, “Peak white dumbass energy is whites loving Hozier while straight up not engaging with his musical politics of “black people made the genre I’m singing and this genre (and pretty much all modern music genres) came out of/effected by the violence whites put them through.” Like he is deadass one of the few white musicians who has actively acknowledged the simple fact that black people invented this shit but white gays call him irish bog man and move on. I know im ranting but Hozier is not just your fey/irish sewer rat (or whatever you bitches call him) and it is pretty dismissive + racist to act like his music came from irish wetland when it came from (and he fucking tells you folks this) a black church.” /end id]
