"which is insane, because who would choose a poet as their [spiritual] guide through a dark and scary realm?" eurydice been real quiet since you dropped this
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
And just like that, you, my friend, have been pinned!
@mayadiaz-portalatin2496
Жыл бұрын
not a coincidence that Hozier references her and Orpheus’ trust in “Talk” !!
@zenayla9179
Жыл бұрын
@@mayadiaz-portalatin2496 i knowww what i wouldn’t give to hear hozier cover epic iii from hadestown (off broadway cast) (,: him singing as orpheus would kill me
@clarapickering6761
Жыл бұрын
@@zenayla9179 omg you're so right.. he would be PERFECT as Orpheus 😭😭
@vanbaba5604
Жыл бұрын
😊😊😊
@albadejuanilopez1184
Жыл бұрын
as an Irish poetry PhD student and a massive Hozier fan... girl i'm LIVING
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Omg that is my dream degree! 😍
@albadejuanilopez1184
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca feel free to join my class next semester hahahaha!
@jags.3389
Жыл бұрын
So y’all study poetry? Wow Europe must be real fun. As an African I feel like i had a past life wherein I was French. There’s just something so familiar when I look at Europeans.
@borabora324
Жыл бұрын
Chose accountancy over poetry, now I’m reading Hozier’s lyrics!! 😊
@MadeleineKuhl
4 ай бұрын
I’m in heaven learning and listening. Can you share more and talk about all this marvelling history. I went in art rabbit holes and I wanna talk and learn about it. No one wants to talk or go deep into ideas I’m assuming I’m wrong but I love learning or listening to this beauty
@victoriacottaviard1821
Жыл бұрын
"7 ways that you can eat your young" for me it was a reference to the seven deadly sins (pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth) which makes a lot of sense with the idea of the song
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe I totally missed that! But yes that makes soo much sense!
@drilonkennedy-gorne2049
Жыл бұрын
OOOOOH I like this theory too
@MissStrowbarry
Жыл бұрын
THIS i thought that given the rest of the song, it meant like how the older generation, the one in control at the moment, is destroying the lives of younger with their sins, how their sins reflect in us
@MissStrowbarry
Жыл бұрын
Just like the sins of count Ugolino got him and his descendats in the tower, they suffered and got eaten by him because of what he had done
@borabora324
Жыл бұрын
I agrée, that how I read it as well! 😊
@kaelansmith6947
Жыл бұрын
why are there not more complete studies of hozier's work, this is my favourite genre
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, if I was in university I would find a way to make it my thesis 😂
@Innnnnk
Жыл бұрын
RIGHT!?
@arondaw
Жыл бұрын
"and what do you get? PTSD and non-transferable skills" absolutely ended me hahaha. loved the vid!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha thank you very much! 😄
@lauraalopez
Жыл бұрын
I think my adult child would have appreciated this video. They were a highly literate Hozier fan. Thank you for giving me a chance to reflect on Ariana’s memory and potentially understand why they were a Hozier fan. Ariana 1996-2022.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh Laura, that is so beautiful to hear. I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, I am sure Ariana was a wonderful person. I truly hope that with time you will find some healing, and Ariana's love for Hozier will aid you in your connection. My thoughts are with you and your family tonight ❤️
@georgiabevan2234
Жыл бұрын
I loved this! As a Greek mythology fan (and knowing Hozier likes to reference them) my first thought listening to "Eat Your Young" was of the Titan Cronus eating his young because he was afraid of a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. But your video has given it so many more layers that I wouldn't have got!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh yes! I didn’t know about Cronus’s story until a couple of weeks ago but I love that connection and I’m so glad you brought it up!
@m.h.7364
9 ай бұрын
@@honorlucaI thought back to another Greek myth - the house of Atreus and their tendency to eat their young, literally in the case of Tantalus or Atreus, or metaphorically like Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
@freedom65ec
Жыл бұрын
I so enjoyed this. I love Hozier. I am 76 years old living in Florida and don't know a single person who has ever heard of him. outside of TMTC. I devour his lyrics and try to understand what he is saying. I thank you for the clarity. I wish you and your generation good fortune.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words, Ellen! It really is a sign of a true artist when someone’s music can touch the full range of generations!
@elanyacoleman9862
Жыл бұрын
I'm 70 and adore him and only him 🙂!
@abbyreese444
Жыл бұрын
what part of florida ? i’m moving there soon!
@user-mq5kt5dr9h
26 күн бұрын
Nice to see other oldsters here.
@vigwig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for an enjoyable discussion. I love Hozier's work and I'm in my 70s! So he appeals to many who deplore what's happening in the world.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for stopping by! 🥰 it’s a sign of a true artist when someone can reach across generations!
@InovisIgaly
Жыл бұрын
65 years young here and absolutely devouring and enjoying Hozier 💕
@amina9751
Жыл бұрын
the coins in the album cover could also rappresent the coin that the souls of the dead had to pay to Charon to reach the underworld (or in Dante's Inferno's case, inferno itself)
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
OOoo yes! I totally missed that but that's a brilliant point!
@juliahhhhh
Жыл бұрын
Hozier is just a lyrical genius... he has a way of reaching deep inside your soul with his songs and not too many musical artists can accomplish that same feat (imo)...
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! I feel like he just lays the deepest parts of my brain out bare
@LotosAnalysisCorner
Жыл бұрын
I'm speechless on the profoundness of the analysis, you really gave Hozier's work the right dedication in order to not be understimated
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That is so incredibly lovely! Thank you so much, you’re too kind!! ❤️
@bootyduke4473
Жыл бұрын
this is a fantastic video, i’m so glad i found it!! i think the world “flows through” hozier the same way that i feel through my hands, my nerves, the same way we cry through our eyes. i once heard someone say that we are the universe experiencing itself, and i think that idea lives in this verse. when hozier burns, the world is burning through him, just as the world dies in some way when anyone dies. an individual’s death is the world experiencing death through this piece of itself.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Love this! Thank you so much ❤️
@jelailu2044
Жыл бұрын
this was such a beautiful and thoughtful comment thank you for sharing T__T
@KamisatoElias
Жыл бұрын
Yes, we are a part of the world so we cannot stop it from affecting us, so we should yield and let it flow through us in its natural way
@michellgarces3852
11 ай бұрын
That's exactly how I felt the song the first time I listened to it! Awesome 🤩
@ThFRTs
Жыл бұрын
I feel like in 'Through Me' he's talking more simply about learning to accept what you can't control. You will inevitably suffer losses throughout life, whether that be the loss of love or life. If you resist these things and 'burn' your path through life, the world will burn you in return, but if you are able to accept it and flow through your life, it will flow through you. To swim against the current is ultimately futile and will only cause more pain for you, the people around you and the potential relationships you could have. I think all three songs relate to each other in various ways - the idea of 'the flood', the encouragement of acceptance of loss etc. Love the video and found the comparisons to Inferno really interesting, really enjoyed your style.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful way to put it, Elliot. I think you’re spot on there! Thank you so much for stopping by and for the kind words ☺️
@emanashraf4470
Жыл бұрын
Same kind of concepts are also found in his song "No Plan" in his album Wasteland Baby! Accepting that we can't control anything and there is no plan and no kingdom to worry about Because there will be darkness again
@korih393
Жыл бұрын
That was my assumption, too! His realization that fighting and razing a path through the inevitable will only burn you in return, but sitting back and accepting what you cannot control will ease your path through life and through death. The idea of knowing your strength, seeing a “wave” coming that you know you can’t overmaster, and choosing to ride it to shore instead of dying swimming against it is a comforting one, to me. Reminds me in the day to day to take things one step at a time, and to let go of worrying about what’s going to come anyway.
@etajad6650
Жыл бұрын
I love that Hozier is so layered. First I hear raw emotions, ofter it hits me so hard, I cry. Then I hear words and I love them, sonpoetic and beautifully crafted, then is layer of culture, context, history, inspirations, blues songs and gospel, mythology and ethnology. All perfect. And I love Your takenon his work. Cheers.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
He truly puts so much work into it! Thanks for watching ❤️
@aeri_taylors-version
Жыл бұрын
on the 2nd verse when the music just disappeared for a split second as he said “silence” before the strings reappeared - i started crying then. this entire song somehow feels like a warm, understanding, and comforting hug that’s given while i cry in their arms and letting it all out and letting go of my burden
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
THIS!!! I feel the same way about a lot of Hozier’s music! So glad this video made its way to like minded people ❤️
@aeri_taylors-version
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca and we’re getting an MV 😆
@superneonbuck
Жыл бұрын
When I hear the chorus of Through the Flood, what I feel from it is...just a raw expression of rage and horror. There is an element of awe and acceptance as well. the world "flowing through" meaning, taking in all the loss and cruelty of the past few years, feeling it completely cover you like water until you ARE water. Overwhelmed beyond overwhelmed. Burning through the world is the rage that results from this, and the world burns through you in return. Maybe it's some thing unique to being an artist of any kind. You sort of see and feel so much of what's going on, all at once, like you're looking at a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Except, it's also looking back at you. You hear all the noise and clamor at once, like a hurricane or a symphony. And it shapes you. I hope this makes any sense at all.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
wow THIS!! I think this is kind of what I was thinking but I had no idea how to put it into words, so THANK YOU! It is absolutely that beyond overwhelmed feeling. And that Bosch call is genius!
@aydan-taylorrome1029
Жыл бұрын
I think the line “seven new ways that you can eat your young” could also be interpreted through a more biblical sense as well. Althou the irony of a double entendre is fantastic
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@annafinamore419
Жыл бұрын
as an italian fan of Hozier and his lyrics, I always described him as a poet and I LOVE this video
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! Xx
@nia6469
Жыл бұрын
THIS IS SO GOOD. im a literature student & love both dante and hozier so i am the very niche target audience rn and its fire i love this
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you! 🥰 haha I’m so glad this video found its exact demographic!
@KamisatoElias
Жыл бұрын
I love how you also absolutely love the gospel part of All Things End. It feels like a divine and holy chorus of angels harking from the heavens, it’s just incredible. I was just blown away and couldn’t stop smiling when I heard it! The whole song is so conclusive and it puts you at peace, into a state of blissful and weightless acceptance of the present. Because all things end, we should not change our plan.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
YES!
@tiffaniamber3280
Жыл бұрын
Oh, this was absolutely amazing from beginning to end. I, too, find so much comfort when listening to All Things End. I'm graduating university very soon and I'm beginning to realize that I want no part in corporate America, yet I feel so stuck and forced into it for the sake of survival, which really is just keeping my head even a tiny bit above water. My lifejacket is very much the music, literature, art, and the people. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this. You're wonderful!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
This is such a wonderful comment to read! Thank you so much 🥰 I’m so glad and grateful that this video has been able to reach people that feel the same as I do ❤️
@aaron4876
Жыл бұрын
I love hearing people discuss hozier’s lyrics. He really takes the time to craft meaningful and multifaceted stories inside every one of his songs so what better way to appreciate that than to and analyse and discuss them. Great job on the video :)
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Indeed indeed!
@mansha04
Жыл бұрын
I envy how eloquent and graceful you are with your words! The editing, the content, Gnossienne playing in background, this video was so beautiful and well thought!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has struggled for years with fumbling my words, this comment brought a little tear to my eye! Thank you so much for your kind words ❤️
@pedroduarte9580
Жыл бұрын
Loved the video, very well done! I'm a recent Hozier fan and english is not my native tongue, so your interpretations of his songs really help me understand their deeper meanings. Thank you!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That’s so lovely to hear! Thank you so much 🥰
@reilly3098
Жыл бұрын
Great video! The labor of love definitely paid off! I would love to add an interpretation for Eat Your Young! In the chorus when he says "throw enough rope until the legs have swung", I always thought about public executions through hanging and how it was a spectacle for the wealthy. Violence has always been so intrinsic in humanity. Love the interpretations!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Ah gosh YES that is such a great interpretation! Thanks so much for sharing and for the kind words!! ❤️
@just_bekah
Жыл бұрын
as a huge hozier fan and also a history masters student studying the italian renaissance, this is such a great analysis, so well done. also to say that i cannot wait to hear the Dante references in the album is the understatement of the millennia. oh boy have i ever been waiting for this one
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you!!! And me too, it's painful waiting around for this album!
@solla9486
Жыл бұрын
I was gonna stand up and watch this while making breakfast, but you kept me seated in my bed with no break for 30 minutes. Absolutely captivating and fantastic deconstruction of this amazing EP.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow, what a compliment!! 🥰 thank you SO much for such kind words!
@eligeddes1808
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the analysis. This just made me even more excited for his upcoming album!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Ah thank you!! I’m counting down the days! Reckon it’s gonna need multiple videos haha
@adamparrishkinnie
Жыл бұрын
this video was IMPECCABLE, as someone who's never read Dante's Inferno all the tie-ins/connections made there were super interesting!! Thank you for taking the time out to make this video, half an hour well spent
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! That's so kind! I'm glad you were able to get something from it x
@nefelifrida1088
Жыл бұрын
This was the best half hour of my life. I thought I was the only one absolutely shocked by the effect the 'silence' had in All things end. And that very verse of Through me (the flood) is one that I think of almost every day since that EP was released. The way you speak as well is so pleasant to hear and watch. And yes, I do believe there should be an entire degree dedicated to studying Hozier's works because they are undeniably complex and relatable to the mind, the heart, and the soul.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you for such kind words ❤️❤️❤️
@caroline8166
Жыл бұрын
this needs more views. i really hope you do this again when his album comes out.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh you best believe I’ll be coming in hot with a multi-part series for the album 😉
@Innnnnk
Жыл бұрын
I literally love hozier😭 the way I could cry to his music- I wish and pray and hope that I can create lyrics HALF as good as his
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Ugh SAME!
@nial722
9 ай бұрын
His music reminds me of the comfort I used to get as a child in the church before I grew up and came upon some rough realizations. It's wonderful to have that feeling again and I really respect the wisdom and humanity behind his lyrics. I'm ngl, I'm exhausted of this world, but I am grateful to be living in the same time as this beautiful man
@honorluca
9 ай бұрын
I could not agree more!!!
@treywylie
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the love, effort, and passion that went into this video. Long time Hozier fan and found my way here from the /r/Hozier subreddit. I am someone that embraces the music and vibe of songs first and only later digs into the lyrics. You did an amazing job of presenting many things I would have missed.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That is so so kind! Thank you so much 🥰 I had no idea this had made it’s way to Reddit ☺️ hope to see you again!
@jeef0322
Жыл бұрын
Im so happy to find a channel deepdiving hozier music for the poetry that it is, finally! Loved the video looking forward to your full breakdown of the album 😅
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Yay, I'm so glad you're here! I can't wait to get stuck into the album!
@AmazedbyGrace95
Жыл бұрын
My friend sent me this video and I'm so glad she did. I love his music but struggle at times with lyric comprehension as im listening. This was such an enjoyable history and literature lesson, thank you! ❤
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw that makes me so happy that this video is being shared between friends 🥰 Appreciate the kind words xx
@deadbyglitter
Жыл бұрын
as a mexican hozier fan and english not being my first language despite how much i enjoy his music and his lyrics sometimes its pretty hard for me to properly grasp all of the allegories or metaphors and i feel like this made me feel that i wasn't as lost as i thought, this was such a wonderful watch and i hope that when the full album is released u do a video like this again
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh Aly, that’s so wonderful to read. I’m so grateful that my video was able to assist people like this. I most definitely will be doing another in-depth video for the full album! Thanks so much for the kind words and happy ready ❤️
@rohpheeheart
Жыл бұрын
this is to a testament of how much i have listen to eat your young for youtube to recommend a 30 minutes commentary video on it
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha love that for you!
@beasavarie8729
Жыл бұрын
When you were talking about gospel music I was completely taken aback and had to pause the video. I was raised in the church and am no longer religious but I've always felt a tie to the environment and community it brought. I've never been able to really put that feeling into words and determine the route of it but you did it. THE MUSIC. I have always said I love music with layers and gospel choirs literally make me cry. Can't believe it took me until now to realize. So thank you. I literally just switched to a religious studies major and now I feel a little more confident about my own relationship with religion.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh Bea, I love this!! It’s great to know that there are people out there with the same experiences ❤️
@lilaboxx
Жыл бұрын
The parallels between all things end and no plan are striking and there's a reason they're both my favourite songs
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh I am absolutely with you on that one!
@anoukb156
Жыл бұрын
As a big Hozier Fan, a literature lover and also an Italian, I am really glad I found this video, well done for putting informative and intelligent content ! 😊
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😃
@starryoong
Жыл бұрын
as a music journalist and neurodivergent person hyper-fixated on Hozier and how words and language communicate through music, this is an incredible watch. I am not religious and was not brought up religiously. I have never really caught the extent of religion and its influence in his work, but now I feel incredibly enlightened by your analysis. Thank you so much for pouring yourself into this, I am in awe.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That is so sweet! From a fellow neurodivergent person, thank you ❤️
@sophspice32
5 күн бұрын
i love that your channel is so dedicated to analyzing hozier´s music
@davidradulovic5897
Жыл бұрын
Wanted to point your attention towards something, since I m certain you would appreciate it: "Every time I d burn through the world I'd see that the world, it burns through me" - Fire The whole first verse and the 'flow' part of the chorus - Water "picture a grave, picture 6 feet freshly dug, the four temporary walls at the long-term cliff edge of the world" - Earth "Light and air find some new deepness there..." Air "...and usher down the sky" back into Water He even managed to sneak in alchemical references, the nerd
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
omg..... OMG! All I can say is thank you, David!
@officeplant4909
Жыл бұрын
I’m earning my masters in renaissance studies and I am obsessed with how you talk about these songs, screaming at the end - thank you for this!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That is so kind! Thank you! It means a lot to hear from someone definitely far more educated than myself haha
@DaSuperGirl1
8 ай бұрын
I don’t think a KZitem video has kept my attention for so long in such a long time. Other than the broski report. I was enraptured, you made this is so interesting and digestible. For someone who knows absolutely nothing about literature like that, it was easy enough to follow but as in depth as I was looking for. Beautifully done. Thank you 👏🏼
@honorluca
6 ай бұрын
Oh my god even being mentioned in the same paragraph as the Broski Report is an immense honour. Thank you xxx
@Onlydel0RT0
Жыл бұрын
So.... im from Argentina, and because English is not my first language, is hard for me to understeand Hozier' s Lyrics in a deep level. So much of what you´re saying in the video is what i felt when i hear the EP for the first time, as you´re sayin, is interestig when someone put in words the ideas or feelings of certains experiences that we pass trough. Music conect us and is universal, no matter what. Great video (sorry for my awful english)
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That was so lovely to read, Julia!! And do not apologise at all for your English, it is fantastic! I'm so glad my video was able to find you ❤
@Onlydel0RT0
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca Yes! It turns out that im also a youtuber (started this year) and i also speak about some books ! So we have that in common. You have a new suscriber in me.
@lucennastryker9093
Жыл бұрын
I guess to me, the whole "burns through me" versus "flows through me" comparison in Through Me (The Flood) feels like Hozier telling us that, however idealistic this may sound, we get what we put into the world. When you burn, the world burns too, and when you flow, the world flows. It's a wonderful moment of both reclaiming agency as well as reminding us to be conscious of what we put out there.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS!
@sincerelyrhiannon
Жыл бұрын
God this was so good to watch. I adore Hozier and its so nice to see someone else delving into his work with the same passion I have for it! Soul sister!!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
So glad to have you here, lovely!! ❤️
@melissaabrego1884
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are going to be my new obsession. I love Hozier’s songs but a lot of the references go over my head, but i can feel just how heavy the message is that he’s trying to convey
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you! Glad to have you here ❤️
@dreadpersephone
Жыл бұрын
describing his work as comforting is really accurate. i relate really greatly with you introductory explanation of "All Things End"
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Glad this video found similar minds ❤️
@elsedelange4852
Жыл бұрын
Also because his cover art is inverted his feet appear to actually be walking, which I think could be a reference for what he's going to do with the album, like walking us through the layers of hell, maybe even how the listing journey of the album kinda works like Virgil and Dante
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Ooooo yes such a great theory!
@bethmw28
Жыл бұрын
All Things End has my first temptation for a lyrics tattoo as well!! The "if there was anyone.." line 😍🥺 I'm now also tempted by just "Put me back in it" ❤❤❤ this is such a great video!
@bethmw28
Жыл бұрын
Oh god, the "try measure loss" verse breaks my soul every single time I hear it. As a Brit, I 1000% agree to that being read out in parliament.... but we all know it'd do no good 😞
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!! So glad this video reached people on the same brain wave as me!
@bethmw28
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca ❤❤❤
@nataliap.3519
Жыл бұрын
Your voice is so soothing, your analysis so incredibly interesting and your intelligence astonishes me. I'm really happy to find someone just as interested as me in hozier and his lyrics 💗
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh you're so kind! ❤️
@billiegleadow8818
Жыл бұрын
Just amazing ❤ so well researched and written x
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thanks mumma x
@pablo.aranda95
Жыл бұрын
My knowledge of Hozier is really superficial as I've never listened to anything other than take me to church (i think its a great song), but your essay has opened my eyes and now I am looking from a completely new perspective. Thank you.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That's so wonderful to hear! Thank you!
@lilsgub
20 күн бұрын
Just finding this now after loving learning more about this EP/album the whole year and just seeing Hozier himself live (it was amazing) - thank you for explaining everything so well!!
@abbiewoodall4160
Жыл бұрын
Long time Hozier Fan. Yesss Girl! I love this stuff but don't have the background to break it down like this. So thankful for this gift of a video!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!! xx
@jayceereeves4045
Жыл бұрын
A truly amazing music analysis, thank you.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you so much!
@ladysolitude9978
Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic in depth review! All things end is my favourite song of the 3 from the exact same reasons you mentioned lol. I just wanted to say that my interpretation of "as we begin again" is in line with the spirit of No Plan - yes everything will eventually explode and nothing really matters, but that's what makes living our silly little human lives so exciting, the certainty of an ending should in fact be what encourages us to embark in new beginnings.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow I love this! I think you're absolutely correct on that one. Thanks so much for sharing and for the kind words ❤
@squishy7406
Жыл бұрын
What a gem of a video this was! It is so well-researched and edited- I literally enjoyed every second of it so thank you for this :) I really like your interpretation and commentary of 'All Things End'. The lyrics and sentiment of the song remind me of Brendan Kennelly's poem 'Begin'- particularly the last lines: "Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin". Hozier did a reading of it in one of his ig lives and it was just beautiful. Thanks once again for this video! :)
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! And thanks for sharing that poem, I’m definitely going to be looking into more of Kennelly’s stuff now 🤩 definitely so fitting with the theme of All Things End
@elinamakela8435
Жыл бұрын
I had to come back for reference from the comments video and I even found the original IG live. This speaks to me as I only recently realised that if I think there is an infinite potential of how bad things can go, in the same logic there must be infinite potential of how well things can go. Trying to remember this 🩷
@squishy7406
Жыл бұрын
@@elinamakela8435 A beautiful way of looking at the world 🤍
@liacamp9
Жыл бұрын
I love this video so much, I'm so glad I found your channel! The lines about "skinning the children for a war drum/ putting food on the table selling bombs and guns" also resonates a lot with the gun control debate that's going on in the US. Children are literally getting murdered, going to school but actually getting ready for war (those bulletproof classrooms were pretty dystopian), and the rich just don't give a shit, because guns and wars are so profitable, like you perfectly said. Hozier is insanely talented and it's great to find good analysis of his work in here!
@lauramartin450
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and sharing it with your fellow Hozier-obsessed humans
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank YOU for being here, Laura! xx
@onkadoodle510
Жыл бұрын
OH. MY. GOSH. When you had said this is your “New Gospel” I felt so seen!!! I literally had this exact epiphany a few days ago with this song. I’ve also deconstructed from my faith, and this song gave me the exact euphoria I felt when I would listen to worship music when I was younger. I’m so happy someone else had the exact same experience ❤❤
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh gosh I love this! I’m always worried people won’t understand where I’m coming from when I say things like that but I’m so glad there’s people out there that get it! ❤️❤️❤️
@Anna-us7gw
Жыл бұрын
This video essay is what I miss from school now that I’ve graduated… the juicy analysis
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
YES! English class analysis is the only thing I miss!!
@lindahagan9722
3 ай бұрын
my favorite Hozier analyst. brava!
@mbbbits4847
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful video. It's been some time since I have been inspired to read more classic works of literature and your analysis really made me nostalgic. Thank you 🤭 Also regarding your last question, I think that maybe the narrator feels they have transformed into a transparent vessel of the world's burdens and emotions that is able to embrace reality and turn it into art, thought and comfort (just some late night thinking 😅)
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
LOVE that analysis!! 😍 thanks so much for tuning in x
@laraschneider3594
Жыл бұрын
I can’t believe I found this video, it felt so good to see someone talk so much about music and the lyrics Hozier wrote in all three songs. When his new EP came out, i literally freaked out. His music is deeply moving as it results in a variety of feelings. Thank you for putting this video out, I have no one who is thinking as much about those lyrics as I do which is why it’s giving me so much comfort. Lots of love ❤ Update: i just saw that you made a NBT vlog four years ago? If you still listen to them, please give us a video for NBT 🥹
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you so much Lara! That's so kind 🥰 and funny you should mention NBT because you'll never guess what I filmed yesterday... 😉
@bast713
Жыл бұрын
"should not change our plans when we begin again." From a relationship angle, we enter romance knowing it will end either with a breakup or death. It's a rally to do it anyway. On a larger scale he's saying knowing things end shouldn't keep us from experiencing life. There's a quote from a television show I always come back to - "if nothing we do matters, the only thing that matters is what we do." How we live knowing that our lives are temporary and may be inconsequential in the grand scale is freedom, because we're living according to what we want to see in the world.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
This is SO GOOD! Thank you! Xx
@classactsexpertiseandinspi4815
5 ай бұрын
Informative analysis providing accurate historical context. Thank you. I cannot understand how this album wasnt even nominated for album of the year at this years grammys.
@honorluca
4 ай бұрын
It's truly criminal how uncelebrated this album has been by the industry!
@uhohspaghettios2391
Жыл бұрын
The first idea for a tattoo that I ever had (which I still haven't gotten yet because money) was a tree with the words, "Death comes to all" carved into the trunk. That phrase got me through the darkest times of my life and ironically really helped to keep me going long enough to get help for my depression. Listening to All Things End gave me that same feeling now that "Death comes to all" gave me for the better part of two decades- the feeling of "it's okay; this too shall pass". It's also very nice to know I'm not the only one who feels relief being reminded that everything and everyone will have an end someday. I usually don't bring it up because people give me the side eye, lolol.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
I love that tattoo idea! And yes, it's great to find other people that find relief in the great darkness that will come. I think we've been programmed as a society to see finding comfort in death as something morbid or disturbed - like there's only one way to be joyful and that's through seeing life as sunshine and rainbows. But I think death can be an incredibly beautiful thing and not something I particularly fear. I see it as a final reward for enduring the chaos of life. An eternal slumber where you finally have no duties other than rest.
@catalinateodora5301
Жыл бұрын
another interesting thing i get from the chours of through me (the flood) is that he first uses "burn" and then "flow". i think that him burning through the world may be the initial reaction many people have when losing a loved one, that of rage. but because humanity is inherently tied and a part of the world around them, raging against what is out of his control only hurts him, which means that the world burns through him too. but when he lets go of the struggle and accepts the loss as something that is intrinsic to the human experience, he manages to return to the world, and to life, in a way he used to before his loss (not the same, since something has changed profoundly, but still) and that is a more gentle experience, signified by him flowing through the world and the world through him, instead of burning. sort of become one with it.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow thank you! That makes so much sense! I really did struggle to draw meaning from Through Me but I'm so glad this video was able to reach people that could see it from a different perspective. Thanks for sharing! ❤
@77zard
Жыл бұрын
I don't listen to Hozier but I watched to the end because you're a great narrator with a cool worldview!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
What a compliment! Thank you so much!
@stellamariss
Жыл бұрын
I would love this kind of video from Hoziers debut album from you!! Fantastic videos! I am going through a Hozier rabbit hole myself and i was pleasently surprised with your video in my recommended
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! ❤️ and you can absolutely count on a Unreal Unearth video!
@antonellamR2D2
11 ай бұрын
What a beautiful surprise this video essay. The gospel part rings loud with me, also the mathematical perfection of la Commedia is so good with Hozier music, and his modern artistic sensibility
@lisislobo6801
Жыл бұрын
all things end feels like a warm hug
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
100%!
@mennaahmed2816
Жыл бұрын
so much thought and love gone into this video! i love it, and i love how you narrate and comment on the pieces of literature. i found myself unconsciously nodding in agreement as you spoke. thank you for this, and you REALLY deserve more subscribers. 💛
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
That is so lovely, thank you so much Menna! ❤️❤️❤️
@devyncj15
Жыл бұрын
This analysis is absolutely amazing! Your dedication and passion for the music and the history really shines through. I usually don’t watch video essays but so glad I stumbled upon this one ❤ I interpreted “the world flows through me” as a commentary on voyeurism. As if hozier is saying even when we feel like we’re just floating through time and being carried along with the waves, we are the ones through whom the stories of time and history continue. We’re witnesses and actors and helpless to the current all at the same time.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! That really means a lot ❤️ and I absolutely love your interpretation!
@pumkxns7707
Жыл бұрын
oh i could listen to you talk for hours this was immaculate
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh you’re too sweet! 🥰❤️
@danielronhovde8323
3 ай бұрын
I feel the same way exactly about Through Me; I've told more than one person for sure that I think that's one of the best written verses I've ever heard
@elisapoulain
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful analysis as always ♡ I adore Hozier and his music and I'm so glad it led me to your videos! Really love your editing style, it's so pretty. Also, fun fact: Italian students are required to study the Divina Commedia during their final three years of high school, one for each cantica: Inferno the third year, Purgatorio the fourth year and Paradiso the fifth and final year of high school. The majority of students dislike this fact or at least all of my classmates did, mostly because three years is a lot of time and also because usually the teachers don't really put much effort in it. And because of this I didn’t really pay attention to it but now I'm thinking of picking it up again! Can't wait for your next Hozier analysis ♡
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh I WISH we got to study Dante in Australian schools!
@harrison3910
11 ай бұрын
Just coming back to say you nailed it. After his genius video came out on this song, you were absolutely right.
@honorluca
11 ай бұрын
Oooo I can't believe I've missed that video until now! Watching right this minute!
@user-mq5kt5dr9h
26 күн бұрын
Because I am a dance lover, I watched the movie Dancer so many years ago - about Sergei Polunin. (And hasn't he let the whole world down, but that's another topic.) That's the only time I heard TMTC (yes, I live in a box). Life, in America, is mostly grim, and I decided, a few months ago to stop watching the news obsessively, and to go find some laughs, for a change. So I was watching comedy shows, and came across a Colbert show this year with Hozier singing Too Sweet. Well, sure, ok, whatever, I'll watch, and then I was like WHAT IS THIS? OMG. WHO IS THIS BEING? Utterly captivated. So I went searching for more, and the next thing I found was the BBC performance where he sings Francesca with so much pain, and so much emotion, it would be unbearable except it's so beautiful. I have not been the same since. Now I'm so far gone. Your analysis is wonderful. I'm still absorbing this album. There has never been anything like it. I try to tell my friends, and no one is particularly interested. I've been taking deep dives into other albums and songs, and following videos of his American tour. Yes, it's not an exaggeration to say that his music creates a religious experience. The first stanza of Through Me reminded me of Not Waving But Drowning, which always gets me. The fact that most people know Hozier only for TMTC and now Too Sweet and not the body of incredible, lyrical, poetic, intelligent, historical, and eye-opening....music seems too small a word...music makes me nuts. THANKS!
@liamrussell6949
Жыл бұрын
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE continue down this rabbit hole and go through the rest of his songs now that the album is released in full! I would LOVE to hear your opinions on it
@callmetrigg5401
Жыл бұрын
A tad from a man I was told about, he was very successful and went to Stanford. He always said he invested in war-stock because it was the most promising. Sad truth
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
YEESH!
@user-vp7po5vg9e
Жыл бұрын
"all things end" is exactly the mindset I'm using to deal with the state of the world as well, both politically and ecologically. I'm an ecologist and I am sometimes just overwhelmed with the loss of life and vitality thats occurring now. well said. like the others below, I thank you for a thoughtful, insightful analysis. enjoyed it very much. its always heart warming to know other people have been as deeply affected by hozier's music as I have and to realize the thought they've put into it like I have
@reema2493
Жыл бұрын
this video was nothing less than amazing, every single second was interesting. your words, the way you perfectly explained everything, the editing, and adding Gnossienne as!! you did a phenomenal job this was perfect!!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you SO much! That’s so kind ❤️
@user-yv9eu4so9p
Жыл бұрын
When you say that what you were religious in was the music, I find that to be one of the most beautiful ways of saying something I've felt since I left the church. All of my experiences with the divine within a church's walls have been tied to music that deeply moved me. The sermons never did. That was one of the reasons I was so confused for so long, and tried to make it all fit. The first religious experience I had outside of a church building was legitimately a Hozier concert. His first tour. I cried so much, and I felt it so deeply within me, and there was no conflicting feelings after. Just peace. And connection to the divine. And although that was not when I left the church, that experience absolutely did change me, and his music still moves me so much to this day. He does truly understand the way the soul connects to sound and lyricism, and I just adore his music. This was a wonderfully done analysis. Thank you.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh I relate to this SO MUCH! I’m so glad this video was able to reach people like me ❤️ I had the exact same experience at church. I hope one day I can see Hozier live because I’m sure it would be otherworldly!
@user-yv9eu4so9p
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca It truly, truly is. I absolutely hope you get the chance as well! So nice to connect with similar souls. Sending much love.
@jessonthecob
Жыл бұрын
I feel like I have been starving for new content/creators that I genuinely enjoy and am overjoyed to have found your channel! I will be spending the next couple days binging all of your videos. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and I’m so excited to see more from you. ❤️
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you so much! So glad to have you here xx
@Xa4t
Жыл бұрын
I think the line “when we begin again” is a reference to the cyclical nature of heartbreak. Love is a beautiful thing but it always ends, either from a breakup or a death, in heartbreak. There is another line in the song which touches on this: “we didn’t get it right, but love, we did our best and we will again”. So even though that relationship wasn’t perfect and they broke up, they are both still willing to fall in love again. I think his point is that no matter how many times your heart gets broken you should always be willing to love again.
@Xa4t
Жыл бұрын
This could also be applied to life as well because that too is a cycle of death and rebirth. We are always entering new phases and leaving old ones and for every person who dies, another is born. It could even be a nod to reincarnation.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I LOVE this! Such a wonderful explanation!
@anx1ety_prime
Жыл бұрын
26:52 i hear you and i feel the same about this part. "waking up having forgotten and remembering again the full extent of what forever is" is a feeling all of us who have experienced grief have known. its a deep aching in your chest that makes you want to scream at the world, because your world has stopped. but the world out there keeps going, keeps burning, keeps flowing through us and despite us.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
So comforting to know that you were able to resonate ❤️
@kite2518
Жыл бұрын
its really interesting to hear such a well thought out and supported analysis of eat your young coming from someone doesn't quite have such a background in classical literature, i mean i always thought the line "quicker and easier to eat your young" was hoziers was of saying it'd be better to kill off our kids rather than bring them up to suffer in a world where theyll be used by the powerful rather than have the narrator actually framed as the greedy
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
I think that's definitely a very valid reading of the lyrics and adds an extra layer to this song!
@adamgladstone2136
Жыл бұрын
You are so unbelievably insightful into what I felt about these songs and Hozier's songs as a whole. They speak to our souls.
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you so much!!
@carolinavanderlande4904
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that was a great video, thank you for that! My longtime Hozier obsession has been revived lately, and this is very helpful. I sure hope that you will make more of these when new music is released. I also want to thank you for your great choice of background music (Satie’s Nocturne) as it is one of my favorite instrumental pieces and very fitting as well!
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for stopping by! I’m definitely thinking a multi-part series is needed for the upcoming album 😄 so glad someone appreciated the music pick! One of my absolute favourite too ❤️
@bysimplymar
Жыл бұрын
Now THIS is the kind of content I look forward to pay my internet for. Such a hard work and done so, so beautifully. I don't think I have enough words to say something more than this... This is the perfect essay (for me and many others, I bet) about this EP. I often have a hard time articulating thoughts, but knowing out there is people seeing the same, feeling the same, hearing the same and more than anything: honoring the same; it's simply amazing. Thank you so much for this and thank you so much for all the passion shown in this video about everything, not just the songs, but the essays, the books, the narrative, the edition, the sincerity. 🤍
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow this comment has me a bit speechless! I think I might actually print this out and stick it at my desk. Thank you so so much! That is so incredibly kind 🥰❤
@thechicantique4567
Жыл бұрын
Oh, my Hozier loving Irish and Italian ancestry is full of delight. What a gorgeous reaction video you've brought us Honor. I'm a fan girl & just subbed. ❤
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you so much! Very glad to have you here ❤️
@thechicantique4567
Жыл бұрын
@@honorluca ❤️ 💙 💜
@elenafariabelisario
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this thoughtful and profound analysis of Hozier's recent work. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of your video and rewatched! Please keep making more, you are a brilliant narrator
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
Wow thank you so much! Plenty more content like this on the horizon! xx
@Grace-td2gf
8 ай бұрын
literally planning my all things end tattoo right now. it’s such a perfect statement
@corinnae.7877
Жыл бұрын
Hozier is definitely my favourite lyricist. That makes me to read more literature, I really want to, but laziness and school puts an end to it. Any recommendations?
@honorluca
Жыл бұрын
I always ALWAYS recommend Daphne Du Maurier, I absolutely adore her storytelling!
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