Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.
It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.
Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.
At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!
Anyways enjoy the album!
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Oh how Hozier has written an album about the absolute worst humanity has to offer, all our sins and crimes laid bare, and he says you are forgiven with so much tenderness. This is what makes you human. This is what makes you complex in the most beautiful ways. Look at the tragedy around you, and look at the survivors. Aren’t you all just so beautiful in your efforts to strive forward and begin again.
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Extremely cool of neil gaiman to give hozier early access to good omens season 2 so he could write an entire album about it
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it’s just me and hozier‘s entire discography against the world
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when hozier said "But after this I'm never gonna be the same, and I am never going back again" in First Light, he was actually talking about all of us being forever changed after this album
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there’s something very symbolic about how short butchered tongue is and how it sounds like it should keep going but it just stops.
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hozier should've kept on releasing the album one song at a time. I can't take all this in one day
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The injury of finally knowing you.
What the fuck, Hozier. You can’t just do that. The injury of finally knowing you. What the fuck. I am ruined now.
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not to be that person but what do you mean butchered tongue is the least streamed song on unreal unearth. what do you mean people can listen to lines like "and as a young man blessed to pass so many road signs / and have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound / but feel at home hearing a music that few still understand" and just. move on. sort that song into the skip file. what. what do you mean.
anyways butchered tongue is the best song, the most haunting song off unreal unearth.
y'all just don't fucking listen to lyrics anymore.
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The chokehold Unreal Unearth has on me is insaneee. Like I have Andrew Hozier Byrne disease and I fear it’s terminal
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