I've been listening to the radio on my way to and from the UofM pretty regularly, mostly Cities97 is my station pick, unless traffic is bad, and then I listen to the Christian music station, because it calms my nerves.
Point of this being, I've heard this song on the radio pretty frequently lately.
Hozier's Take Me To Church.
I like it. It's got a great sound that I'm in love with. His voice is smooth and soulful. All together, I love the song.
Today when I got to school I decided to look up the music video.
I'm speechless. I'm crying, and I'm speechless.
Watch it all the way through. Please. Do it.
I have chills. When I watched it, I had to go back and fully read the lyrics.
In an article in The Irish Times, songwriter Hozier says, "I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment-- if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes -- everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense."
The music video follows, as you see, a homosexual couple who face the violent backlash of the large anti-gay group.. I watched the video, and as I watched the group advancing on the couple, all I saw was the KKK. Sexual orientation problems, gender equality problems, race problems... they're all the same. They're all faced in the same violent and --phobic ways.
I've known this. I've been reading and studying these issues for years. I took a Race, Gender, and Class sociology class in which we talked about these movements, and everyday I left that class with a little more compassion and disappointment in human nature.
Anyways, this is definitely at the top of my list for favorite songs right now.
Happy Monday
AnEnglishMajorContemplatingMoralDilemasAcrossTheWorld
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