Hozier in the Q studio in Toronto.
| CBC Arts LoadedIn an interview with Q’s Tom Power about his new album, Unreal Unearth, the Irish singer-songwriter reflects on the power and resonance of his biggest hit 10 years after its release.Hozier on Take Me to Church and his new album Unreal Unearthin his parents' attic 10 years ago, he had no idea the song would become a massive hit, let alone a rallying cry for people fighting intolerance around the world.
"I'm confronted by a lot of things — it's a year ago since her murder," he tells Power. "But first of all, was just how easy it was for me to write that song and sing that song, and have no understanding of … the license that I had to write it and sing it. "I most likely will never understand the bravery and the courage that it takes to be in Sarina's place in the world, or to live her life, and to engage in a peaceful protest for what she engaged in — the simple right to wear her hair, display her hair in a public place. She paid the ultimate price for that.""I didn't have a global view when I was writing it as a 22, 23-year-old man," he says.
"Russian state media was sort of doing this whole campaign that tried to equate child abuse with ," explains Hozier. "That led to this horrendous rise of attacks by very far-right gangs that filmed these attacks and put them on social media with impunity…. "That was what the music video back then was about. And the criticism that I faced — mild criticism — was, 'Hey, this is happening somewhere else in the world, why make a big fuss about it?' … And increasingly, you know, in the last 10 years, we've witnessed some of that culture kind of cross borders…. What strikes me is that song is sadly more applicable now than it was 10 years ago.".
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