Summary Of Take Me To Church By Andrew Hozier

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“Take Me to Church” by Hozier: Provoking Religious Ideological Change
Through Music and Imagery

I am a musician. Recently, I enjoyed that moment when you hear a song for the first time and are instantly captured. The song was playing at a restaurant where I was performing. I asked a friend in that moment about it, for it was from her playlist. She said it was a song about Catholic and Protestant religions, and she shared that she had previously thought it would be a great song to add to my repertoire. I thought the song was a strong statement of unconditional love, and the notion of divine Goddess energy, when I initially heard it. Inspired to perform it, I worked out the lyrics and chords and viewed the music video, and, unexpectedly, found myself profoundly amazed and deeply moved.
There are many songs that speak of love, then there are those few special creative efforts that are treasures; they result in music that speaks of love in a paradigm shifting and thought provoking way. “Take Me to Church” by the artist Hozier reveals an artistry that boldly challenges organized religious ideology on many levels, and actually provokes the audience to examine their own feelings regarding homophobia. It is in a …show more content…

His bluesy and gospel style blend perfectly to express the sentiment within his music. The EP “Take Me to Church” was released in 2013 and was accompanied with a video directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson of the Feel Good Lost production company. Billboard magazine, in a biography of the Hozier on its website, describes how the “...video for the powerful title track [Take Me to Church], which directly addresses gay discrimination in Russia, went viral on YouTube and Reddit, [and] Hozier found himself with an international audience” (2016). However, a closer examination of the lyrics reveals Hozier has far more to express than what Billboard magazine noted in its

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